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Found the greatest archaeological treasure of coins in the Andalusian region of Murcia (29/10/2012)

The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today's treasure Soap Street, a group of Andalusian coins found during an archaeological excavation conducted at number 18 of the street of the city of Murcia, as part of one protective measures for urban archaeological heritage and has been supervised by the Historical Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

The treasure was located in one of the alcoves alhanías or the remains of a Moorish house in the tenth to fifteenth.

He was inside a small ceramic orcita where they were hidden gold coins and 423 silver.

Of these, 347, between coins and fragments, corresponding to parts of gold (only two are dinars, the remainder is dinar fractions) and 76, also including fragments, silver dirhams.

The ensemble is completed five small gold items that should be part of jewelry ornaments.

The coins will be exhibited at the Museum of Santa Clara, "whose subject and environment fits perfectly with the provenance of these coins," said Cruz.

The Minister of Culture and Tourism, which was accompanied by the Director General of Cultural Assets, Francisco Gimenez, said "this is a first-class archaeological jewel that fits perfectly into the account that has at archaeological treasures-called ".

That is, those sets of coins (and, as in this case, also of gold pieces that are not coins) made intentionally and hidden, or lost accidentally abandoned by its owner.

Cruz said that "it is the set of coins andalusíes most numerous documented so far in our region" and, moreover, "the highest percentage of gold pieces presented in its composition, even if it is mostly of coins, "he said.

In this regard, he noted that both its heterogeneity, with presence of copies Caliphate, the taifa kingdoms and Almoravids and Fatimid coin probably issued in Sicily and North Africa, "also marks the uniqueness of this set against the known ".

"The only closest reference in this regard, what is the treasure found in 2005 in the ancient city of Begastri (Cehegín), dated to the eleventh century and made exclusively for 237 silver coins along with some pieces of jewelry" , specified Cruz.

The cleaning process and detailed study of the treasure has barely begun, and advancing it may determine, in any case, if there are other pieces and other details of metallographic and chronological character.

According to data provided by the technicians responsible for the excavation, the characteristics of the reservoir where it was buried archaeological seem to correspond to a first moment of abandonment and collapse of the housing built in the late tenth century, followed by an episode of flooding sealed this level, at the end of the eleventh century.

Above that level, in the first half of the twelfth century, a new home would rise, broadly maintaining the original layout of the previous.

It is, therefore, at the time of the late eleventh century, which must fall upon concealment.

Source: CARM

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