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English translation: group of coins / tesoretto


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Italian term or phrase:tesoretto
English translation:group of coins / tesoretto
Entered by: Anthony Green
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01:20 Apr 18, 2007
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Archaeology / funerals
Italian term or phrase: tesoretto
Davvero suggestiva la vetrinetta successiva che custodisce il tesoretto, composto da quattordici monete in argento coniate da zecche campane, una di Arpi e una della greca Corinto.
Anthony Green
Italy
Local time: 02:39
group of coins / tesoretto
Explanation:
A "tesoretto" is a group of coins.
I've seen this expression used in English but I've also found a link with the Italian word "tesoretto" in inverted commas. I prefer "group of coins", mainly because this is what they are, no special hidden there...

Italian context:
1) "Fondo S. Antonio, abitato: tesoretto
di stateri d'argento (III sec. a. C.)" (this is a photo caption) http://www.clio.it/sr/vr/chora/terredivaste.html

2) "Dalla Canonica di Spezzano provengono pregevoli reperti ceramici della fine del XV secolo. A Spezzano, nella casa di Alfredo Rossi, è stato inoltre recuperato un tesoretto composto da 36 monete in lega d'argento, per lo più di Francesco I d'Este." http://www.archeobo.arti.beniculturali.it/mostre/castello_di... (with photograph)

Enlgish context:
1) ""The 'tesoretto' of the Torre Cives consists of five golden coins dating back to the Byzantine period: one of Leone I and the others of Basilisco. They have been found in 1956 by some workmen during the restoration of a non-asphalted road leading to the Torre"."
http://www.parks.it/parchi.canavese/Epun.html

2) "Floriani Squarciapino M. 1948, "Tesoretto di monete d'argento", NSc, 326 ff.
Comment: About a group of silver coins from the republican period and the first century AD, found in a bronze vessel in the foundations of the Terme delle Sei Colonne (IV,V,10-11). "
http://www.ostia-antica.org/biblio/keywords/key1076.htm

3) "Since coins do hold value, people pay attention to them and worry about their security. Of the coins that survive to us, many are found in hoards. A coin hoard can be defined as "a group of coins of whose discovery " for example, in a purse or other container " makes it clear that the hoard was deliberately buried in a group," (Crawford, 191). "
http://oldmoney.vassar.edu/papers/survival.html

4) "This is a small but interesting collection and includes a group of coins found in the bank of Kings Sedgemoor Drain (...)" http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/3957

5) group of coins (photo)
http://www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk/archaeology/in...

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Note added at 5 days (2007-04-23 21:39:16 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you Anthony. Buon lavoro!
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Aïda Garcia Pons
United States
Local time: 17:39
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Thanks Aida that was the answer I used !
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4 +2group of coins / tesoretto
Aïda Garcia Pons
5hoard
Fulvio & Sharon Baudo


  

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hoard


Explanation:
To be more precise tesoretto in an archaeological sense is usually translated "hoard", or if you want to render the fact that it is small, "small hoard". Sometimes also "treasure" can be used. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoard

Fulvio & Sharon Baudo
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group of coins / tesoretto


Explanation:
A "tesoretto" is a group of coins.
I've seen this expression used in English but I've also found a link with the Italian word "tesoretto" in inverted commas. I prefer "group of coins", mainly because this is what they are, no special hidden there...

Italian context:
1) "Fondo S. Antonio, abitato: tesoretto
di stateri d'argento (III sec. a. C.)" (this is a photo caption) http://www.clio.it/sr/vr/chora/terredivaste.html

2) "Dalla Canonica di Spezzano provengono pregevoli reperti ceramici della fine del XV secolo. A Spezzano, nella casa di Alfredo Rossi, è stato inoltre recuperato un tesoretto composto da 36 monete in lega d'argento, per lo più di Francesco I d'Este." http://www.archeobo.arti.beniculturali.it/mostre/castello_di... (with photograph)

Enlgish context:
1) ""The 'tesoretto' of the Torre Cives consists of five golden coins dating back to the Byzantine period: one of Leone I and the others of Basilisco. They have been found in 1956 by some workmen during the restoration of a non-asphalted road leading to the Torre"."
http://www.parks.it/parchi.canavese/Epun.html

2) "Floriani Squarciapino M. 1948, "Tesoretto di monete d'argento", NSc, 326 ff.
Comment: About a group of silver coins from the republican period and the first century AD, found in a bronze vessel in the foundations of the Terme delle Sei Colonne (IV,V,10-11). "
http://www.ostia-antica.org/biblio/keywords/key1076.htm

3) "Since coins do hold value, people pay attention to them and worry about their security. Of the coins that survive to us, many are found in hoards. A coin hoard can be defined as "a group of coins of whose discovery " for example, in a purse or other container " makes it clear that the hoard was deliberately buried in a group," (Crawford, 191). "
http://oldmoney.vassar.edu/papers/survival.html

4) "This is a small but interesting collection and includes a group of coins found in the bank of Kings Sedgemoor Drain (...)" http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/3957

5) group of coins (photo)
http://www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk/archaeology/in...

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Note added at 5 days (2007-04-23 21:39:16 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you Anthony. Buon lavoro!

Aïda Garcia Pons
United States
Local time: 17:39
Native speaker of: Native in CatalanCatalan, Native in SpanishSpanish
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Thanks Aida that was the answer I used !

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