coin
- Museum number
- 1932,0706.17
- Description
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Silver coin; pierced for suspension. (whole)
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Helmeted head of Roma, right; behind, denominational mark. Border of dots. (obverse)
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Dioscuri galloping, right; below, mark; in exergue, inscription. Line border. (reverse)
- Production date
- 209BC-208BC
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 4 o'clock
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Diameter: 20.30 millimetres
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Weight: 3.78 grammes
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- Curator's comments
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This object was found as part of the Cordoba treasure, discovered by chance in 1915 at the Molino de Marrubial, on the outskirts of Cordoba. The Cordoba treasure is an important Iron Age hoard of silver objects (1932,0706.2-22). The treasure includes over three hundred silver coins, a torc, eight armlets, the head of a brooch (in the form of a pair of horses’ heads), rough lumps of silver and other fragments. The objects had been buried in a pit, the coins and two lumps of silver were in the bowl with the rest of the hoard outside. The coins, 82 native and 222 Roman, show that the hoard was buried about 100 BC. Some of the objects are damaged and distorted, and the hoard might well have been the stock of a silversmith.
The closest paprallel for the Cordoba treasure is a similar group of Ibero- Roman silver jewellery found in 1914 near Mogon in the same area of southern Spain (Sandars 1916).
Sandars, H. 1916. [On a collection of Ibero-Roman silver jewellery found near the village of Mogon, in the northern part of Andalucia]. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 28: 56-63.
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This coin (along with 1932,0706.18) may have been found attached to one of the eyelets of the armlet 1932,0706.22 by a short length of chain (1932, 0706.16) (Hildburgh 1922, 168-9).
- Location
- On display (G50/dc18)
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to C&M.
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- 1932,0706.17