HOARD

Robertson 2000, 256-257 no. 1082:

""Roman Hoard. Two treasure hunters have found a hoard of 1000 Roman coins dating from the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great, 1600 years ago. Mr. George Fletcher, 64, and Mr. Ken Emery, 52, both from Bournemouth, discovered the silver coins, believed to be worth thousands of pounds, in a potato field near Poole, in Dorset."
-Glasgow Herald, 27 Jan. 1986, 3
-"Upton...: A hoard of 1663 nummi down to AD 318 is recorded."
-Britannia, XVII (1986), 418.
"The hoard was discovered on January 23 1986 by two treasure hunters using metal detectors on a field near Upton, Dorset. It was contained in two pottery containers, which were found about 9 inches apart; the larger, containing about 1300 coins, was also buried about 10 inches deeper than the smaller, which was itself about 12 inches below the modern ground surface.
Unfortunately the coins from the two containers were not kept separate, so we cannot be certain whether or not the coins were distributed evenly between them. The few coins still adhering to the pottery fragments, when they arrived at the British Museum, and the coin stains on those fragments suggest that there was no distinction between the two lots: at any rate both larger and smaller coins were present in each container. A report by D R Watkins and V Rigby on the pottery and on the archaeological context of the hoard has been published separately. (Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society Proceedings 108 (1986), 181ff.)
The hoard comprised 1685 coins [7 radiates (1 'quin.') and 1678 folles or nummi] mostly in the names of Constantine I, Licinius and Maximinus, although it included a few coins of Constantine's sons Constantine II and Crispus. Most of the coins were struck between 310 and 318, on the two consecutive standards of 72 and 96 to the pound, and most, of course, come from British and Gallic mints. The following were represented:.
(folles unless otherwise indicated)
ant.
London Trier Lyons Arles Ticinum Rome Ostia 0Uncertain 1Total
Victorinus 2
Tacitus (Rome) 1
Carausius 2
Allectus 2
Constantius I (deified) - 2 - - - - - - 0- 12
Maximinus Daza - 20 29 - - - - 3 05 157
Maxentius - - - - - 1 - - 0- 11
Constantine I (Caes.) - - 1 - - - - - 0- 11
Constantine I, Aug. - 420 - 281 100 18 1 1 2 0347 11170
Licinius I - 41 76 - 2 - - 1 028 1148
Crispus - 11 1 - - - - - 04 116
Constantine II, Caes. - 7 1 - - - - - 02 110
Uncertain - 34 10 - - 1 - 1 0227 1273
Total 7 533 401 100 20 3 1 7 0613 11678
There were also 90 fragments of coins.
R. Bland and A. M. Burnett, in CHRB VIII (1988), 217-25, types, mints, photos. of 1 coin of Maximinus Daza
The bulk of the hoard is in the Borough of Poole Museum Service"