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The list of Roman hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with period of Romano-British culture when Southern Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent ...
The Cunetio Hoard, also known as the Mildenhall Hoard, [1] is the largest hoard of Roman coins found in Britain. It was discovered in 1978 at the site of the Roman town of Cunetio, near modern-day Mildenhall, Wiltshire, and consisted of 54,951 low value coins. The coins were contained in a large pot and a lead container. [2]
The only find from Roman Britain with a larger number of gold coins was the Eye Hoard found in 1780 or 1781, for which there are poor records. [4] The largest single Romano-British hoard was the Cunetio Hoard of 54,951 third-century coins, but these were debased radiates with little precious-metal content.
The Vale of Pewsey hoard of 142 coins is expected to sell for between £30,000 and £40,000. Nigel Mills, from Noonans, said: “Virtually all of the coins are in mint condition and have not even ...
The hoard is one of the largest ever found of 4th-century coins in the former Roman empire and consist of coins from the reign of Roman emperor Constantine I and his family in AD 306 and the joint reign of Constantius II and his younger brother Constans, from AD 337 to 340. The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter acquired the coins in July ...
In addition to hoards of coins, a number of hoards of gold torcs and other items of jewellery have been found, including the Snettisham Hoard, the Ipswich Hoard and the Stirling Hoard. In September 2020, 1,300 Celtic gold coins were discovered at a location in eastern England, dated back between 40 and 50 A.D. [ 3 ]
With excavation now complete after four year of work, researchers plan to study a hoard that features gold coins minted between 364 A.D. and 408 A.D. depicting the profiles of nine different Roman ...
The recovered coins were "solidi," meaning that they were made of pure gold, and INRA noted that the government of Luxembourg had given 308,600 euros to the "beneficiaries" of the coin hoard ...