One of Only Nine Miliarenses from the All Saints Hoard
Gratian. AD 367-383. AR Miliarense (21mm, 3.68 g, 12h). Treveri (Trier) mint. Struck AD 375-378. D N GRATIAN-VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS EXERCITVS, Gratian standing facing, head left, holding labarum in right hand and resting shield on ground with left; TRPS[...]. RIC IX 42b.1-2; RSC 52†b. EF, lightly toned.
Ex Spink 12026 (26 September 2012), lot 409; 2010 Gussage All Saints Hoard (PAS Ref. DOR-A1CCB1; NC 171 [2011], no. 54).
Found on land belonging to the parish of Gussage All Saints in Dorset, England on 10 May 2010, the Gussage All Saints Hoard comprised 9 miliarenses and 653 siliquae packed in an earthenware flagon. The hoard ranges from Julian II to Honorius and was probably deposited around AD 410, when Roman rule in Britain was crumbling, leaving the province to defend itself from increasing Germanic and Irish attacks. In accordance with U.K. Treasure Laws, the hoard was taken intact to the British Museum, where the coins were cleaned and catalogued.
