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Cleaned silver coins from Layer 3 removed from the broken pot. Obverses.
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The British Museum, Ian Richardson, 2012-02-13 12:24:02
Title
Cleaned silver coins from Layer 3 removed from the broken pot. Obverses.
Description
English: Two small ceramic beakers containing Roman silver coins were found by a metal-detector user searching on pasture (formerly ploughed) in the Selby area of East Yorkshire on 7th March 2010. One of the beakers was broken and the other still intact. A small spread of coins from the broken beaker was found with the pots. The beakers were brought to the British Museum by the PAS Finds Liaison Officer in May 2010. They were then sent for examination by Microtomographic Volume Imaging at Southampton University. On their return to the Museum, the contents were excavated in the Department of Conservation and the coins removed for identification.

The coins
The pots contained 201 coins in total; 102 in Pot I (the broken pot, including scatter) and 99 in Pot II (the complete pot). The coins were all silver Roman coins of the denomination known as the denarius (plural denarii). The composition of the contents of the pots was similar, each being typical of a denarius hoard buried in the early AD 180s. The earliest coins were the worn Roman Republican denarii issued by Mark Antony in 32-31 BC and of a type that is known to have circulated into the Antonine period and beyond. The latest coin of Pot I was the latest in the hoard, a single coin of Commodus dated to AD 181 at the beginning of his reign. The latest coin of Pot II was a coin of Diva Faustina II from the end of the sole reign of Marcus Aurelius (dated to c. AD 176-180). The coins showed little sign of wear, suggesting that there was not a long period of circulation prior to burial.
Associated material
The two ceramic beakers are yet to be studied fully but are clearly associated with the coins and of Roman date. The beakers also contained a significant amount of plant material spread throughout their contents. This is being analysed by the Department of Scientific Research at the British Museum.
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(Ruler, Pot I, Pot II, Total)

Mark Antony (coins dated 32-31 BC)213Nero (AD 54 - 68)213Otho (AD 69)011Galba (AD 69)101Vitellius (AD 69)101Vespasian (AD 69-79)131023Domitian Caesar202Titus (AD 79 - 81)303Domitian Caesar011Domitian (AD 81 - 96)358Nerva (AD 96-98)134Trajan (AD 98-117)161733Hadrian (AD 117-38)161935Sabina112Antoninus Pius (AD 138-61)131629Faustina I51116Faustina II101Marcus Aurelius Caesar527Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus (AD 161-169)Marcus Aurelius448Lucius Verus246Faustina II011Lucilla303Divus Antoninus213Marcus Aurelius sole reign (AD 169-180)505Faustina II011Commodus (AD 180-192)101Total10299201
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Riding of Yorkshire
Date ROMAN
Accession number
FindID: 290735
Old ref: NCL-637961
Filename: Selby3.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/369887
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/369887/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/290735
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