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Blake Street Hoard
Coin hoard found in York, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Blake Street hoard is a Romano-British coin hoard.[1]
The hoard
Discovery and context
The hoard was discovered during excavation in 1975 by Richard Hall at Blake Street, York, in the praetentura of the Roman legionary fortress of Eboracum.[2] The hoard was located in the foundations of a building dating to the second-century AD.[2]
33 of the coins are in the collection of the Yorkshire Museum and two are in the British Museum.[3]
Contents
The hoard contains 35 denarii from the Roman Republican and early-Imperial periods. The latest coin in the hoard is of the Emperor Vespasian.
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