Descoperiri monetare antice din România (VIII)

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).

Keywords

• coin
• hoard
• ancient
• rome
• dacia
• dobrogea
• sarmizegetusa regia
• transylvania
• roumania
• xrf analyses
• gold
• silver
• bronze
• tetradrachme
• denarius
• arrowhead
• premonetary signs