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{{Expand French, Trésor de Lyon-Vaise, date=December 2009 The Lyon-Vaise Hoard is a 3rd-century ancient Roman hoard of precious objects, found in
Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
(Roman
Lugdunum Lugdunum (also spelled Lugudunum, ; modern Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but continued an existing Gallic settle ...
) in 1992 and now on display in the
Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon Lugdunum, formerly known as the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière, is a museum of Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon (Roman Lugdunum). Previously presented at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon and the Antiquarium, the municipal Gallo-Roman collec ...
. It includes dishes, jewellery, statuettes and coins. It was buried for fear of Germanic raids and the coins in it allow its burial to be dated to after 258 (perhaps during the 259 raid). Some pieces are displayed in the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon: File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-Apollon.jpg, Apollo's silver statue File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-Buste.jpg, Unknown young man head wearing a scale breastplate File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-collier.jpg, Collar; emerald stones and gold nodes File:Tresor Lyon Vaise-plateaux.jpg, Small silver plates Roman Lyon Treasure troves of France Treasure troves of late antiquity 9th arrondissement of Lyon Ancient Roman jewellery