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Author Găzdac, Cristian, 1970- author.

Title Wealthy or not in a time of turmoil? : the Roman Imperial hoard from Gruia in Roman Dacia (Romania) / Cristian Găzdac and Marin Neagoe
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 182 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Series Archaeopress Roman archaeology
Archaeopress Roman archaeology.
Contents Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Wealthy or not in the time of turmoil? -- Conditions of discovery -- Introduction -- The denominations -- The hoard structure (tab. 1 -- graphs 1-2 -- graph 3) -- The hoard value -- The mints (tab. 2 -- graph 4 -- catalogue) -- The reason for the hoard burial and non-recovery -- The 'weird' coins -- References -- Tables -- Graphs -- Maps -- Catalogue -- Plates -- Tab. 1. The structure of the hoard from Gruia -- Tab. 2. The distribution of mints in the hoard from Gruia
Graph 1. The distribution of coins by issuers in the hoard from Gruia -- Graph 2. The coefficient/year of reign in the hoard from Gruia -- Graph 3. Comparative monetary index for hoards ending with coins of Gordian III -- Graph 4. Coin supply in the hoard from Gruia for issuers with multiple mints -- Map 1. Map of Romania pointing the location of the village of Gruia (map provided by Google Maps) -- Map 2. The Roman Empire, mid-2nd century AD, pointing the location of Gruia (after Găzdac et alii 2015, 41) -- Map 3. Roman Dacia, the location of the hoard from Gruia
Map 4. Hoards discovered within Drobetaʼs territory (after Găzdac et alii 2015, 44) -- Map 5. The distribution of hoards on the Middle and Lower Danube in the period from Gordian III to Philip I (after Găzdac 2012, 194)
Summary The Roman imperial hoard from Gruia, Romania (in the former Roman province of Dacia) is among the largest ever discovered in that part of the Roman Empire. 1,509 silver coins ranking from Vespasian to Gordian III were accidentally discovered whilst digging in a private garden. This book presents a fully described catalogue of each of these coins, photographs included. A comparative analysis with other similar hoards throughout the Roman Empire reveals both general and specific hoarding patterns during the period. The authors attempt to discover whether such an amount of silver coins could represent the wealth of an individual by looking at prices and salaries around the time the hoard was buried
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
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Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 5, 2018)
Subject Coin hoards -- Dacia -- Catalogs
Coins, Roman -- Dacia -- Catalogs
Coin hoards -- Romania -- Gruia -- Catalogs
Coins, Roman -- Romania -- Gruia -- Catalogs
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Coin hoards
Coins, Roman
Europe -- Dacia
Gruia.
Genre/Form Catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Neagoe, Marin Iulian, author
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784918482
9781784918484