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Description: | 16 silver denarii.Report done by Richard Abdy, Curator fro roman Coins at the British Museum:The coins are Roman silver coins of a denomination known as the denarius (plural denarii). The earliest was from the time of Vespasian (AD 69-79). The latest coin is of Diva Faustina I (deified after her death) which could have been produced up to the end of the reign of her husband Antoninus Pius in AD 161. The coins can be summarised as follows:Vespasian (AD 69-79) 1Titus Caesar 2Domitian (AD 81-96) 2Nerva (AD 96-8) 2Trajan (AD 98-117) 6Hadrian (AD 119-38) 2Antoninus Pius (AD 138-61) -Diva Faustina I 1Date and Metal ContentThe coins satisfy the terms of the Treasure Act with regard to age and metal content. They are certainly more than 300 years old and all have precious metal contents far in excess of the 10% threshold.Of the same find?It is unlikely that sixteen ancient precious metal coins could have come from the same findspot as a result of accidental individual deposition. This together with the close chronological grouping therefore suggests that these coins formed a hoard, by being buried together in the second century AD.ConclusionOn the balance of probabilities, I conclude that this find constitutes a prima facie case of treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act (1996), by being a group of two or more precious metal coins of the same find.NOTE: in 2013/4 two additional denarii were found and have been recorded as part of this hoard. See 2014T150 and NARC-350635
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