Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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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 |
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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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] |
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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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] |
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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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 |
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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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] |
Hoard | Image | Date | Place of discovery | Year of discovery | Current Location | Contents |
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Desa hoard | c. 1870? | Desa, Dolj | 2011 | Muzeul Olteniei, Craiova | 75 gold coins minted between 1848 and 1868[18] |
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of hoards in Romania.
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