List of hoards in Romania

This is a list of hoards in Romania which comprises the significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, metal objects, scrap metal and other valuable items that have been discovered in Romania.

Neolithic hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Moigrad Treasure		4000-3000 BC	Moigrad, Sălaj	1912	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	Antropomorphic idols, bracelets

Iron Age hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Perșinari Treasure		17th century BC	Perșinari, Dâmboviţa	1954; 1962[1]	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	13 Mycenaean gold (electrum) short swords/daggers (total weight 3.5 kg); silver axes[1]
Galesu Treasure		1400-1200 BC	Galesu, Constanța	1951	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	2 gold diadems
Hinova Treasure		12th century BC	Hinova, Mehedinți		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	gold bracelets, various fragments

Dacian hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Cucuteni Treasure		5th century BC	Cucuteni, Iași	1959	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	gold helmet, 70 pieces of gold weighing 2.063 kg
Agighiol Treasure		5th century	Agighiol, Tulcea		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	a silver helmet (743 grams), 2 silver greaves (902 and 744 grams), 2 silver bowls, 5 silver phiales, 9 silver appliqués, 3 silver appliqués, 1 necklace[2]
Helmet of Peretu		5th century BC	Peretu, Teleorman		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	silver helmet (759 grams),[3] other silver artifacts
Stâncești Treasure		5th century BC	Stâncești, Botoșani		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	gold Scythian-inspired mythological being (47.8 cm x 9.7 cm, 100 grams)
Helmet of Coţofeneşti		4th century BC	Coţofeneşti, Prahova	1929	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	gold helmet (746 grams),[4] silver beakers
Helmet of Iron Gates or the Detroit Helmet		4th century BC	Iron Gates, Mehedinți		Detroit Institute of Arts, United States	gold helmet, silver beakers
Craiova Treasure		4th century BC	unknown		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	silver appliqués, buttons; thought to be connected with the Detroit Helmet and the rhyton at the Metropolitan Museum[5]
Rhyton of Poroina		3rd century BC	Poroina Mare, Mehedinți		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	silver rhyton, partially gilded (278 grams) [6]
Bunești-Averești Treasure		3rd century BC	Bunești-Averești, Vaslui		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest
Herăstrău Hoard		1st century BC[7]	Herăstrău, Bucharest[7]	1938[8]	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	silver coins, silver spiral bracelets, silver bowl[7]
Surcea Hoard		1st century BC	Surcea, Covasna		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	2 phalerae
Rociu Hoard			Rociu, Argeș		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	Silver bracelet
Vârteju Hoard			Vârteju, Ilfov[7]		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	299 silver coins[7]
Sâncrăieni Treasure		1st century BC – 1st century AD	Sâncrăieni, Harghita	1953[9]	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	13 silver drinking cups, 2 conical vases, 2 silver bracelets, 1 fibula [9]
Dacian bracelets		1st century BC – 1st century AD	Sarmizegetusa Regia, Hunedoara	c.2000	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	24 gold bracelets, of which 12 have been recovered by the National Museum
Coada Malului Treasure		100-50 BC	Coada Malului, Prahova		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	fibulae, bracelets
Lupu Hoard		1st century AD	Lupu, Alba	1978[10]	National Museum of the Union, Alba Iulia[10]	a bronze pot containing 2 silver fibulae, 7 silver phalerae, 1 semispherical cup, a Roman bronze mug[10]

Roman hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Cislău Hoard		2nd century	Bărăști, Buzău	1987	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hungarian National Museum, Budapest	244 silver denarii[11]
Treasure of Şimleu Silvaniei		300-400 AD	Șimleu Silvaniei, Sălaj	1797, 1889	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hungarian National Museum, Budapest	1st: 17 gold medallions, a gold chain with 52 pendant amulets, 24 gold foil rings, a disk-shaped pendant, a ring, the fragment of a bracelet, and a pendant in the shape of a human figure. 2nd: an onyx fibula, ten pairs of fibulae decorated with gold and jewels, a swearing-in ring and three gold bowls.[12]

Gothic hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Pietroasele Treasure		250-400 AD	Pietroasele, Buzău	1837	National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	a large gold eagle-headed fibula and three smaller ones, a patera, a twelve-sided cup, a ring, a large tray, two other necklaces and a pitcher
Apahida hoard		4th century AD	Apahida, Cluj		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	a silver pitcher, diademas, fibulae, bracelets

Medieval hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Rotopănești Hoard		6th century	Rotopănești, Suceava			a Hunnic gold pendant (16.8 grams) with ruby-coloured almandines[13]
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós		500-900 AD	Sânnicolau Mare, Timiș	1799	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna	23 gold objects totaling 9.945 kg
Coșoveni hoard		5th-6th century AD	Coșoveni, Dolj		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest
Dinogetia hoard		11th century AD	Dinogetia, Galați		National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest	Byzantine crucifix, coins
Târgoviște hoard		15th century	Târgoviște, Dâmbovița			6284 silver coins[14]
Dolj hoard		16th century	Dolj	2013	Muzeului Olteniei, Craiova	1471 silver coins[15]
Șopteriu hoard		17th century	Șopteriu, Bistrița-Năsăud	1987	Muzeul Judeţean Bistriţa-Năsăud, Bistrița	3 kg of silver coins, objects of gilded silver, jewelry, a silver scabbard[16]
Râșnov hoard		17th century	Râșnov, Brașov	2001		416 silver coins[17]

Modern era hoards

Hoard	Image	Date	Place of discovery	Year of discovery	Current Location	Contents
Desa hoard		c. 1870?	Desa, Dolj	2011	Muzeul Olteniei, Craiova	75 gold coins minted between 1848 and 1868[18]

Notes

1. Biblioteca Academiei: Tezaurul de la Perșinari
2. Mormântul cu tezaur de la Agighiol, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
3. Coiful de la Peretu, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
4. Coiful de la Coțofenești, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
5. Mihai Gramatopol, Tezaurul de la Craiova, in Studia III
6. Rhyton, Oameni și Comori, National Museum of Romanian History
7. Georgescu, p. 44
8. Bunuri culturale mobile clasate în Patrimoniul Cultural Naţional
9. "Tezaurul din obiecte de argint de la Sâncrăieni", Jurnalul, September 18, 2009
10. Dorin Timonea, "Obiecte arheologice, trecute in Tezaur", România Liberă, June 12, 2008
11. Mihai Dima, Eugen-Marius Constantinescu, Tezaurul de la Cislău, cIMeC, 2001, ISBN 973-85287-1-2; p. 5
12. Barbarian Jewellery and Roman Gold, Kunsthistorisches Museum
13. Dicţionar de istorie veche a României ("Dictionary of ancient Romanian history") (1976) Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, pp. 510
14. Laurenţiu Rădvan, At Europe's Borders: Medieval Towns in the Romanian Principalities, Brill, 2010, ISBN 9789004180109, p.297
15. "Tezaur de peste 1.400 de monede de argint, descoperit cu un detector de metale in Dolj de catre un amator pasionat de arheologie", Hotnews, January 16, 2013
16. "Tezaurul monetar de la Şopteriu: dezvăluit în toată splendoarea sa, la Muzeul Judeţean", Bistrițeanul, January 8, 2013
17. "Tezaurul de la Risnov", Evenimentul Zilei, July 4, 2001
18. "A fost descoperit primul tezaur monetar de aur din Oltenia", Evenimentul Zilei, August 12, 2011

References

• Florian Georgescu (coord.), Istoria orașului București, Muzeul de Istorie a Orașului București, 1965

Further reading

• Liviu Mărghitan, Zece tezaure carpatine, Editura Ion Creangă, Bucureşti, 1988
• Ștefan Burda, Tezaure de aur din România, Editura Meridiane, Bucureşti, 1979.

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