Tyragetia (Dec 2019)
Cronica descoperirilor monetare (XII-XIII) / Chronicle of coin finds (XII-XIII)
Abstract
The author presents coins discovered in the second half of 2017 and in the first half of 2019. Among the ancient issues, there are Roman coins from the area of the village of Călmăţui in the Hânceşti District. These are the denarii of Hadrian (117-128), Faustina the Younger (145-175), Commodus (177-192) and a coin of Constantius II (337-361). Medieval finds are represented by several coin hoards. Two small hoards come from the village of Costeşti in Ialoveni District. The first of them was found in a necropolis near a medieval urban settlement and contains coins of the Golden Horde from the reign of Tokhta Khan (1290-1312) (2 specimens) and Uzbeg Khan (1312-1339) (9 specimens), dated from the time after the battle of the Vorskla River (1399). The second hoard, discovered about 15 years ago in the vicinity of the village of Costeşti, consists only Ottoman para minted during the reign of Mahmud I (1730-1757) – Abdülhamid I (1774-1789). Two other hoards were discovered in the territory of historical Moldova, in the Chilia and Sarata districts of Odessa Region. The first of them, stored in the Vylkove Museum of Local Lore, consists of 61 coins issued by Hungary, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire. The second was discovered in 2019 in the village of Kulevcha in the Sarata District and consisted of about 500 specimens. 205 coins were recovered from its composition, of which 202 were issued by the Ottoman Empire during the reign of the sultans from Bayezid II to Murad III and 3 specimens were Russian issues of the time of Ivan IV. The Chronicle also includes isolated coins found during the laying of the Iaşi–Ungheni–Chişinău gas pipeline. One of them is the Ottoman mangir of Suleiman I (1520-1566), minted in Constantinople in 1535-1536, and the second coin is the Lithuanian 1/2 groschen of Sigismund II Augustus (1547-1572).
