Roman coin hoard found in Spain
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Here's an article on a Roman coin hoard (1,300 pounds in weight) found by construction workers in Spain. The article is "sponsored" so there are a bunch of ads around the margins, but the article's got a fair amount of fun pix, and a decent amount of information on the hoard.
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Hate sites that make you click like that. Thanks for the link though.
Coins were the usual common stuff
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Many of the photos were originally posted to this site in April 2016:
elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/28/album/1461842532_524900.html#1461842532_524900_1461842838
Apparently the exhibit is up at the Seville museum now until September.
The largest coin image is Constantius (I?), and the article lists coins of "Constantine and Maximian",
so the period appears to be 305 - 337 AD.
The scribol.com article speculates (poorly?) about the value and why the coins were stored together (to pay taxes?).
I'm not sure what was going on in Spain at that time, but it was pretty far from Constantinople,
so my guess would be the coins were originally to pay Roman soldiers, but the soldiers got chased off
and the coins were then hidden.
Edit to add: Roman strength in Spain was in decline by 383 or so, and Seville was definitely taken by the Vandals in 416.
Get an ad blocker for your browser. Looks fine with one. That is quite a find.
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That's a wonderful find! When they mentioned Constantine, I was thinking smaller bronzes, but these look like good-sized folles. I think I can even see a post-abdication issue of Maximian among the group shots! Perhaps with the loss of the Italian mints to the usurpation of Maxentius in 306, coinage in the provinces remaining under Tetrarchic rule needed to be supplemented with shipments from the East.