page_title: Bredon Hill Hoard
section_title: Items discovered
hierarchical_section_title: Bredon Hill Hoard / Items discovered
caption_attribution_description: English: A radiate of the Emperor Probus, from the Bredon Hill Hoard
context_page_description: The Bredon Hill Hoard is a hoard of 3,784 debased silver Roman coins discovered in June 2011 by two metal detectorists on Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, approximately 400 metres north of Kemerton Camp, an Iron Age hill fort. The coins were found in a clay pot that had been buried around the middle of the 4th century in a Roman villa, identified by the subsequent archaeological excavation. The coins include the reigns of sixteen different emperors during the mid to late 3rd century, and are the largest hoard of Roman coins to have been discovered in Worcestershire to date.
context_section_description: The hoard comprises 3,874 base silver radiate coins, covering the reigns of ten emperors of the central Roman Empire and the reigns of six emperors of the breakaway Gallic Empire over a range of 38 years, from 244 to 282.  The coins were discovered in a clay pot of Severn Valley ware type, also dating to the 3rd century.
  Although all the coins in the hoard are nominally silver coins, and should have about 90% silver content, most of them are severely debased, containing as little as 1% silver.  Some of the coins issued after a reform of the coinage system by Aurelian in 274 are marked with the letters PXXI, and these have a slightly higher silver content, about 5% silver and 95% copper.
  The coins were hand struck, and exhibit a number of errors such as mis-striking and double-striking.  There are also examples where the coin has been struck using mismatched obverse and reverse dies, or where two blanks have been struck together, resulting in one coin with a blank reverse and a matching coin with a blank obverse.
caption: A radiate coin from the reign of Emperor Probus (276–282)
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