Ancient and Byzantine Coin Finds from Romania and Serbia (VII) Cover Image

Descoperiri monetare antice și bizantine, mai vechi și mai noi, din România și Serbia (VII)
Ancient and Byzantine Coin Finds from Romania and Serbia (VII)

Author(s): Delia Moisil
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World
Published by: MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI
Keywords: currency; thesaurus; Romanian; Byzantine; ancient; limes; gold; silver; bronze; drachma; hemidrachma; money; I would; dupondius; centenionalis; AE3; Apollonia; Callatis; Rome; Thasos; XRF analysis;

Summary/Abstract: This numismatic chronicle is focusing on several types of finds: hoards, single and stray finds, or uncertain. The hoards that are mentioned are: in Banatska Palanka (Uj Palanka), Serbia, on the Danube line, a hoard found in 1858 mixing gold and silver roman coins, that is possible to be dated or identified more accurate now ussing recent numismatics reference catalogues; a group of 29 denarii from an old roman hoard, Sângeorgiu de Câmpie, Mureș dept., with a more precise place of finding: the point called La Comoară; a group of 72 roman denarii with the later coin from Marcus Aurelius found together in the area of Hațeg, Hunedoara department; a group of antoniniani (from Elagabal to Gallienus) part of a hoard from Southern Romania (Bucharest?); a small deposit of coins from Callatis (drachm and hemidrachm), found in Dobroudgea; a group of bronze coins (Provincia Dacia and Viminacium types) from the middle of the 3rd century AD, from Turda, Cluj department; two thasian tetradrachmes, part of a possible larger hoard, from Sălaj area. Three single finds are added in this chronicle: a bronze semis from Traianus found in the former roman province Dacia, in Transylvania; a bronze coin from Traianus found in Bădeni, Moldovenești, dept. of Cluj; and a denarius of Vespasianus, found outside the archaeological complex in Tartaria, the western bridge, during the excavations of 2016.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 483-502
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Romanian