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LES ANDELYS 1887

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Location

City

Les Andelys

Address

Grand-Andely

County

Eure

Region

Normandie

Country

France

Lat/Long/Alt

49.247 / 1.418 / 21.91 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

ID

5757

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Hoard name

LES ANDELYS 1887

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

Apr 1887

Total number of coins

2000

Summary

The hoard comprised a whiteware vessel containing approximately 2,000 'small bronzes.' These are considered to have been antoniniani (radiates): Caracalla - Postumus). The latest coins (E332,334 and 336) were struck in Cologne in AD 263. Archives of Musée des Antiquités de Rouen: Inventory III, p. 78, no. 2316 (12.06.1912)

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Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Musée des Antiquités de Rouen
Closing reign (earliest)

Postumus
Terminal year (earliest)

263
Closing reign (latest)

Postumus
Terminal year (latest)

263
Opening year (earliest)

211
Opening year (latest)

217
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Rural

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

A large white ware vessel, with a handle. The vessel was inscribed on its neck with the letters 'VP IS PPXXXVIII CVVPPIII'. It was broken.

Objects belonging to this hoard

Statuette
No description or material given.

References

Coutil, L. - 1889 - Les Andelys

Ref

258

Reference

Coutil, L. - 1895 - Archéologie gauloise, gallo-romaine, franque et carolingienne de l'Eure: I. Arr. Des Andelys

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11-15

Reference

Blanchet, A. - 1900 - Les trésors de monnaies romaines et les invasions germaniques de la Gaule

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no. 397

Reference

1912 - Archives of Musée des Antiquités de Rouen: Inventory

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III, p. 78, no. 2316

Reference

Doranlo, R.-E. - 1956 - La cachette monétaire romaine de Douvres

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no. 33

Reference

Loriot, X. - 1980 - Trésors de monnaies romaines découverts dans le département de l'Eure

Ref

127; no. 6

Reference

Ref

7 (Eure)

Updated by C. Gazdac (Mar. 2020).