Tomares coin hoard results

[guy]

Here’s some follow-up on the famous Tomares, Spain coin hoard of 2016. There were 19 amphorae containing more than 50,000 coins and dating from AD 294 to 311. 

 

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A Civil Guard patrol was the first to arrive at El Zaudín Park in Tomares, in the southern Spanish province of Seville. It was April 27, 2016 and the law enforcement agency had just been notified that heavy machinery doing construction work in the area had accidentally come across 19 large ceramic containers filled with what appeared to be tens of thousands of Roman coins.

Now, six years later, a group of archaeologists and coin experts from the University of Seville have released a report, "Currency and metal in Late Antiquity: the Treasure of Tomares or Zaudín" that explores those findings. After analyzing 5,899 pieces, the researchers concluded that there were approximately 53,000 coins kept in the 19 amphorae, which were buried in a hidden storage area within a now-defunct Roman villa, and that they were all minted between the years 294 and 311 AD.

The 5,899 pieces that were analyzed were minted under the emperors Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius, Galerius, Constantine, Severus, Maximinus, Licinius and Maxentius. They came from the mints of Rome, Carthage, Aquileia, Treveris, Ticinum, Lugdunum, Londinium, Siscia and Ostia. A smaller number of coins came from Alexandria, Cyzicus, Thessaloniki, Heraklea, Nicomedia and Antiochi. The emperor whose name appears on the highest number of coins is Diocletian, and the mint, Carthage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-11-03/researchers-unveil-secrets-of-the-largest-stash-of-roman-coins-ever-found-in-spain.html

 

 

A good review of the coins in the hoard:

 

 

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by guy