List of hoards in Romania

## Contents

* 1 Neolithic hoards
* 2 Iron Age hoards
* 3 Dacian hoards
* 4 Roman hoards
* 5 Gothic hoards
* 6 Medieval hoards
* 7 Modern era hoards
* 8 Notes
* 9 References
* 10 Further reading
* 11 External links

## Neolithic hoards

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Moigrad Treasure  |  | 4000-3000 BC  | Moigrad, Sălaj  | 1912  | National Museum of Romanian History, Bucharest  | Anthropomorphic idols, bracelets

## Iron Age hoards

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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

## Dacian hoards

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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]

## Roman hoards

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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]

## Gothic hoards

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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

## Medieval hoards

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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]

## Modern era hoards

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Desa hoard  |  | c. 1870?  | Desa, Dolj  | 2011  | Muzeul Olteniei, Craiova  | 75 gold coins minted between 1848 and 1868[18]

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Georgescu, p. 44
8. ↑ Bunuri culturale mobile clasate în Patrimoniul Cultural Naţional
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Tezaurul din obiecte de argint de la Sâncrăieni", Jurnalul, September 18, 2009
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 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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