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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7802500, member: 86498"]The Boscoreale Hoard is a hoard found at a site of a villa rustica in 1895. This structure was used for the production of things like wine and olive oil. The hoard of at least 1000 aureii was buried as the result of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD. Though the hoard was unearthed in 1895 the first attempt to record the contents of the hoard did not occur until 1909 in Paris. As near as I can tell this article was not illustrated. According to this list coins issued from the reign of Augustus to that of Vespasian with Titus and Domitian as Caesars are known. The coins from this hoard should exhibit a typical reddish brown discoloration which is very distinctive. The reason for this, is that these coins would have been subjected to very intense heat created by the pyroclastic cloud that was generated during the eruption.</p><p>Map of the region around Pompei[ATTACH=full]1339958[/ATTACH]</p><p>An artist impression of the villa rustica at Boscoreale</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1339960[/ATTACH] I believe the hoard was found in the area of room 7</p><p>Aureus of Nero featuring typical Boscoreale hoard dicoloration 66-67 AD Obv Head of Nero laureate right Rv Jupiter seated left RIC 63 7.33 grams 20 mm Photo by W. Hansen [ATTACH=full]1339961[/ATTACH]According to the list created in 1909 something like 212 Aureii of this type are recorded as coming from the hoard. This would indicate that something like 20% of the coins found were of this type. However it cannot be emphasized enough that there is no real empirical evidence that any of these coins came out of that famous hoard and it is true that there are gold coins that clearly could not come from this hoard that may have a bit of that toning. However given the evidence that we do have it is very likely that the vast majority of them do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7802500, member: 86498"]The Boscoreale Hoard is a hoard found at a site of a villa rustica in 1895. This structure was used for the production of things like wine and olive oil. The hoard of at least 1000 aureii was buried as the result of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD. Though the hoard was unearthed in 1895 the first attempt to record the contents of the hoard did not occur until 1909 in Paris. As near as I can tell this article was not illustrated. According to this list coins issued from the reign of Augustus to that of Vespasian with Titus and Domitian as Caesars are known. The coins from this hoard should exhibit a typical reddish brown discoloration which is very distinctive. The reason for this, is that these coins would have been subjected to very intense heat created by the pyroclastic cloud that was generated during the eruption. Map of the region around Pompei[ATTACH=full]1339958[/ATTACH] An artist impression of the villa rustica at Boscoreale [ATTACH=full]1339960[/ATTACH] I believe the hoard was found in the area of room 7 Aureus of Nero featuring typical Boscoreale hoard dicoloration 66-67 AD Obv Head of Nero laureate right Rv Jupiter seated left RIC 63 7.33 grams 20 mm Photo by W. Hansen [ATTACH=full]1339961[/ATTACH]According to the list created in 1909 something like 212 Aureii of this type are recorded as coming from the hoard. This would indicate that something like 20% of the coins found were of this type. However it cannot be emphasized enough that there is no real empirical evidence that any of these coins came out of that famous hoard and it is true that there are gold coins that clearly could not come from this hoard that may have a bit of that toning. However given the evidence that we do have it is very likely that the vast majority of them do.[/QUOTE]
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