307 AJN Second Series 26 (2014) pp. 000–000 © 2014 he American Numismatic Society An Eighteenth-Century Sicilian Coin Hoard from the Termini-Cerda Railway Construction Site (Palermo, 1869) Antonino Crisà* his essay provides for the irst time data on the discovery of a coin hoard found in Cerda (Palermo, Sicily) in 1869 at a railway construction site. he main aims of the paper are to contextualize this event in terms of the history of post-Uniication Sicilian archaeology and to ofer new information on con- temporary bureaucratic procedures, as carried out by the Italian State and by local authorities in the case of casual discoveries. his historical reconstruc- tion makes use of a targeted set of archival records from the Central State Archive of Rome, which are fully transcribed in Appendix A. Introduction Scholars have previously shown interest in the history of Sicilian archaeology par- ticularly under the Bourbon kings (1816–1860) and have provided a set of re- cords on numismatic collecting and discoveries made in this period (Lo Iacono and Marconi 1997; Crispino and Musumeci 2010; Crisà 2012). However, the post- Uniication period (1861–1915), which was crucial for Sicily in endorsing the de- velopment of “professional” archaeologists such as Antonino Salinas,1 as well as of * University of Leicester (ac472@leicester.ac.uk). 1 Antonino Salinas (born in Palermo on November 19, 1841, died in Rome on March 7, 1914) was the most important Sicilian archaeologist during the second half of the nine- teenth century. He became Professor of Archaeology at the University of Palermo (from 1865) and Director of the National Museum of Palermo (from 1873). He made several