Rare hoard of old coins is to go on display
Rare hoard of old coins is to go on display
A hoard of ancient coins and the remains of the pot in which they were found will go on display together for the first time this weekend.The Sheriffhales Roman Coin Hoard was unearthed by Terry Hayward in 2009.
The 86 bronze coins were discovered in a field near Newport with 21 bits of broken pottery Only the pot’s base remained intact because of damage caused by ploughing.
A coin from the Sheriffhales Hoard
The earliest coin recovered dates from the reign of the emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) and the latest from the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius (AD138-161).Both the coins and pot will go on display from Saturday at the Heritage Centre in Newport.
Centre spokesman Julian Meeson said: “This will be the first time all of the Roman artefacts found with the hoard will have been together since it was examined by experts at the British Museum.’ Although the hoard is not of great financial value – the British Museum valued it at between £250 and £300 – it is historically priceless.”
Meanwhile, an exhibition of colour photographs from Newport’s Serck Audco Engineering Works is now back on display.The photos show men and women at work at the valve making firm. In its heyday Serck Audco employed almost 1,200 people, it was closed in 1999. Mr Meeson added: “If anyone has photographs of the foundry, then the Newport History Society would be grateful if it could make copies of them for its historical record and for display.”
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