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Mobile objects > Coin hoards > Emergency hoards

Preferred term

2180Emergency hoards  

Broader concept

Scope note

  • A hoard of coins, and perhaps other precious objects, secreted together in antiquity at a time of emergency. Such deposits tend to consist of a cross-section of coins in circulation at the time of deposit. They may thus serve as evidence for the nature of the coin supply at a given time.

Source

  • Meadows 2016

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Iakovidou Athena (AA)

Notation

  • 2180

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/2180

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