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Descoperiri monetare antice din România (VIII)
Ancient coin finds from Romania (VIII)

Author(s): Delia Moisil
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World
Published by: MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI
Keywords: coin; hoard; ancient; Rome; Dacia; Dobrogea; Sarmizegetusa Regia; Transylvania; Roumania; XRF analyses; gold; silver; bronze; tetradrachme; denarius; arrowhead; premonetary signs;

Summary/Abstract: This numismatic chronicle presents a number of monetary or premonetary finds for which the exact place of finding cannot be specified: Dobrogea Passim (in the south of the Romanian coast?), 7+1? pieces, probably from the same hoard of bronze Scythian arrowheads and premonetary signs; 1 Thasos tetradrachm, found in Romania, no place specified, possibly part of a hoard; 5 notched Thasos tetradrachms from Transylvania (of the same type as in Șieu-Odorhei hoard), certainly found together in a hoard; 3 Dyrrhachium drachms, most probably part of a monetary hoard with Republican denarii, possibly from the Orăștiei Mountains area; 49 Roman Republican and Imperial denarii, part of one or more Roman denarii hoards, possibly from the Orăștiei Mountains area too; 3 bronze coins issued for Trajan, probably from the Roman provinces in Romania, without further details. To these pieces is added a gold stater of Koson type, without monogram, from a hoard at Sarmizegetusa Regia (Dealul Muncelului).

  • Issue Year: XXX/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 355-378
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Romanian