13.92 mm diameter, 1.224 g, 99.9% gold, grained edge Obverse: ROMANIA, face value "10 LEI", coat of arms of Romania, year 2010, a ring and a pendant from the hoard, three pearl arches	Reverse: the gold pectoral (ornamental platelike item usually worn on the chest, sometimes with apotropaic role), the most spectacular object from the hoard, inscription "TEZAURUL DE LA SOMESENI" meaning "SOMESENI HOARD" and two pearl arches Issuing date: 10th of February 2010 Mintage: 500 coins

About the hoard of Someşeni

The hoard discovered in 1963 at Someşeni in the Cluj county is dated in the 5th century AD. Most probably all the objects belonged to a Gepid noble, or maybe to a Gepid princess. Nowadays the hoard - that was only partially recovered in 1964 by the Romanian authorities - still comprises a pectoral, several pendants, rings, beads, a buckle, several fragments of bracelets and necklaces. Many objets from the hoard were destroyed by the discoverers.

After emperor Aurelian retreated the Roman legions from Dacia, this province was occupied by migratory peoples. One of these was the people of the Gepids, a Germanic people that migrated from the region of the mouths of River Vistula towards Dacia, where they settled after 336 AD, i.e. by the time the province had been abandoned by the Vandals, who left the region heading to Italy. From the Germanic peoples that ruled over Dacia (Vandals, Goths, Gepids) several impressive hoards remained, as the hoards of Apahida and Someşeni (county of Cluj) and the one from Pietroasa (county of Buzău).

The History of gold series comprises:
- a set of four pieces of 500 old lei featuring the golden cache of Pietroasa (2001),
- the following 100 old lei coins with

- the Dacian helmet of Poiana-Coţofeneşti (1999, 2002 and 2003),

- the eagle from Apahida (2003),

- a Cantacuzinian engolpion (2004),
- the following 10 new lei with

- the Perşinari Hoard (2005),

- the Cucuteni-Băiceni hoard (2006),

- the rhyton of Poroina (2007),

- the Hinova hoard (2008),

- the Someşeni hoard (2010),

- the buckle of Curtea de Argeş (2011),

- the cross from Dinogetia (2011),

- the patera from Pietroasa Hoard (2012),

- the Four Gospels of Hurezi Monastery (2013),

- two ancient gold coins struck at Histria (2014),

- the crown of queen Marie (2015),

- the mace of king Ferdinand (2016),

- the crown of queen Elisabeth (2017),

- the 10 ducats 1600 coin with Michael the Brave (2018),

- the 50 lei with year 1922 coin (2019),

- some late Roman gold artifacts discovered at Carsium (2020),

- the polygonal vessels from the Pietroasa hoard (2022),

- the princely diadem of Buneşti-Avereşti (2023),

- the Apahida hoard (2024).

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