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The Reka Devnia hoard was the most prolific find of Roman silver coins of the period from 64 to 238 AD to have ever been published. It was found near the town of
Devnya, north-eastern
Bulgaria. The hoard consisted of 81,044
denarii found in 1929. The earliest coins were those of
Marc Antony of which twenty-nine were found, and the latest being one example of
Herennius Etruscus. The hoard was broken into two, with 68,783 coins sent to the museum of
Sofia, and 12,261 to
Varna.
The publication of the find has been invaluable to researchers reconstructing a chronological sequence of the era's coinage, and accessing the original volume of production of individual types. Many rare personages were represented in the horde. Rare denarii published from Varna include thirteen denarii of
Nero, eight of
Galba, seven of
Otho, twenty-two of
Vitellius, twenty-four of
Aelius Caesar, twenty-one of
Clodius Albinus, fifty-one of
Macrinus, eighteen of
Diadumenian, and forty-two of
Julia Paula.
However, it has been difficult to access the true comparative rarity of some of the scarcest types as undoubtedly examples from Varna were looted prior to the hoard's publishing. Dozens of scarce denarii of
Pertinax,
Aquilia Severa, and
Sallustia Orbiana were found in the Sofia group while the Varna group was mysteriously devoid of all but one example of Pertinax and one example of Aquilia Severa.
A denarius of
Marcus Aurelius. Ten specimens of this coin were found in the Reka Devnia hoard.
Sources
1. Mouchmov, N.A. Le Tresor Numismatique De Reka-Devnia (Marcianopolis). Sofia, 1934.
2. Moneta-L, Curtis L. Clay, Chicago IL, 2003.
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