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A Roman Republican Hoard from Capalbio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

M. H. Crawford
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In the course of building operations near Capalbio in the summer of 1949 a small hoard of Roman Republican silver was found by one of the workmen. The exact find-spot is not known, but it seems to have been close to the Via Aurelia, where this passes Lago San Floriano. The coins were contained in an earthenware jar, which was destroyed. Doris Taylor Bishop, who was excavating at Cosa at the time, was told of the discovery, prevented the hoard from being dispersed and made a list of its contents. At a later stage, she was able to buy the coins and export them to the United States.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 35 , December 1967 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1967

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1 They are now kept at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. I should like to thank Doris Bishop very warmly for showing the hoard to me and allowing me to publish it. The coins when found were covered with a thick deposit, which Doris Bishop had skilfully removed by the time I came to work on the hoard.

2 The coins are described according to Sydenham, E. A., The Coinage of the Roman Republic, London, 1952Google Scholar.

3 This coin, of the size, though not of the weight of a denarius, presumably passed as one. It also shows so little wear that it must have been struck not long before the deposition of the hoard and not at the same time as the regular victoriates with . It is curious that a forger thus copied an issue produced long before his own time.

4 Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, 1957, 109.

5 M. H. Crawford, Numismatic Chronicle, 1964, 151, n. 1.

6 Rivista delta Numismatica, 1864, 282.

7 Periodico di Numismatica e Sfragistica, 1873, 239.

8 Annali, 1960–61, 326.