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2nd Century Trumpet Brooch
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2nd Century Trumpet Brooch
Antonius Pius 138 - 161 Denarius Faustina deified 141 Denarius
Trajan 98 - 117 Denarius
December 16th 2000 was a red letter day for Steve, a trip to what was thought to be a worked out site of a long dissapeared medieval church turned out to be a Romano British farmstead.
After a few hours of fruitless searching Steve dug a very faint signal from his Minelab Sovereign.About 17" down a slab of bed rock was removed to reveal a small grey ware pot containing some decayed packing material (straw or something similar)
and 103 silver denarii.The coins covered every emporor and some of the empresses between 54 AD and 141 AD.All other evidence from the site show it to have been occupied from around the middle of the 4th century.....Was the money handed down through the centuries?..
....Was the site occupied before?....Who knows?The day Steve made this find he searched through torrential rain,on other visits to the site we've suffered thunder ,lightning and have blasted with hail the size of marbles!...maybe the Gods are trying to tell us something!
The hoard is thought to have been buried around 145 - 150 AD and was at that time equivalent to more than a year's net pay for a Roman legionary soldier and therefore represented a significant sum of money for its owner,
whatever his or her occupation.this is an interesting find as it is the first hoard of Roman denarii found in Wales for thirty-five years.It consisted of the following:-
Nero (2)
Galba
Otho
Vitellius (2)
Vespasian (15)
Vespasian, Judea type
Domitian Caesar (2)
Divus Vespasian (2)
Domitian (9)
Nerva (3)
Trajan (26)
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Diva Marciana
Hadrian (27)
Sabina (2)
Antonius Pius (5)
Diva Faustina I (3)