GALICEA MARE

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Location

City

Galicea Mare

County

Dolj

Region

Oltenia

Country

Romania

Lat/Long/Alt

44.1122 / 23.3041 / 76 view

Location details

Centred on field

Find spot comment

On the northern part of the village, on the field of the former communist agricultural unit.

Information

2639

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Hoard name

GALICEA MARE

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Jun 1961

Total number of coins

800

Summary

800 silver coins: 503 denarii, 297 antoniniani (radiates): Antoninus Pius - Philip I (AD 244-247). Near the hoard was discovered a votive inscription.

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Muzeul Olteniei, Craiova, Romania; inv. no. I 3555
Finder(s)

Petre Păcurin
Closing reign (earliest)

Philip I
Terminal year (earliest)

246
Closing reign (latest)

Philip I
Terminal year (latest)

247
Opening year (earliest)

153
Opening year (latest)

154
Coin-level data

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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Good
Findspot rating

Good

Site comment

At the testing excavation following the discovery of the hoard a votive inscription was found, see 'Objects'.
Site class

Rural

Context

Vicus

Period

Roman
End period

Roman

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

Objects belonging to this hoard

Inscription
The slave Dioscorus Ianuaris and his wife (her name was later erased) dedicated an altar to the goddess Diana.

References

Reference

Mitrea, B. - 1962 - Concerning a corpus of Roman Monetary Discoveries intra et extra fine imperii Romani repertae

Ref

509-514

Reference

Guest, P. - 1994 - A Comparative Study of Coin Hoards from the Western Roman Empire

Reference

Rădulescu, T. - 2001 - Tezaurul monetar de la Galicea Mare, judeţul Dolj, din vremea lui Filip Arabul

Ref

94-107

Reference

Găzdac, C. - 2002 - Monetary circulation in Dacia and the provinces from the Middle and Lower Danube from Trajan to Constantine I (AD 306-337)

Ref

483

Reference

Depeyrot, G. and Moisil, D. - 2008 - Les trésors de deniers et d'antoniniens de Gordien III à Aurélien en Roumanie

Ref

93-102; no. 43

Reference

GĂZDAC 2010

Comment

CD-ROM/Catalogues/Hoards/Dacia_GALICEA MARE

Updated by Cristian Gazdac (Aug. 2016); coin-level data Antoninus Pius-Commodus provided by M. Ball (Dec. 21)

Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

GALICEA MARE

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

Objects belonging to this hoard

Inscription
The slave Dioscorus Ianuaris and his wife (her name was later erased) dedicated an altar to the goddess Diana.

References

Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

GALICEA MARE

Data not added to the map

Containers belonging to this hoard

Cooking pot

Objects belonging to this hoard

Inscription The slave Dioscorus Ianuaris and his wife (her name was later erased) dedicated an altar to the goddess Diana.

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

Inscription
The slave Dioscorus Ianuaris and his wife (her name was later erased) dedicated an altar to the goddess Diana.