Informații documentare despre descoperirile monetare romane de la Ghindăoani (jud. Neamț)
Documentary information concerning the Roman monetary discoveries from Ghindăoani (Neamț County)

Summary/Abstract: In the archive of the Museum of History and Ethnography in Târgu Neamț there are some unpublished documents, which refer directly to the discovery of Roman imperial denarii from Ghindăoani (Neamț County). One of the documents contains impressions of the obverse and reverse sides of two coins, a date („958.III”, probably March 1958) and the owner of the coins (the teacher Enea). The coins are two denarii from Marcus Aurelius: Diva Faustina II, years 176-180 (RIC III 743) and Antoninus Pius: Diva Faustina I, post 141 (RIC III 360a). Another document confirms that the museum received two coins from a local man, Vasile Gh. Leonte, through the teacher Mihai David. The legends of the coins were transcribed in the document, so that they could be easily identified: Hadrianus: Sabina, years c. 130-133 (RIC II.3 2500-2504 var.) and Commodus, years 190-191 (RIC III 219). We believe that all four denarii have their origin in a hoard known from the literature. It was discovered by Vasile Gh. Leonte in his yard, on the Leontești / Izvoare hill in Ghindăoani. This monetary deposit belongs to a small group of hoards, from the territory of western Moldavia, ending with issues from the period Elagabalus - Severus Alexander.

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