Coins of the Bithynian mint of Nicaea from the Viminacium necropolis of Pećine

Abstract

During the large-scale archaeological rescue investigations of the southern necropolises of Viminacium, at one of them, Pećine, 170 specimens of coins of the Bithynian mint of Nicaea were discovered. Of these specimens, 83 were found in the graves, and 87 in the layer at the necropolis. The largest number of them belongs to the emissions of Severus Alexander and Gordian III. Compared to the necropolis of Više grobalja, where 290 specimens of Nicaean coinage were found, the finds from the necropolis of Pećine appear in a smaller percentage. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 47018: IRS - Viminacium, roman city and military legion camp - research of material and non-material culture of inhabitants by using the modern technologies of remote detection, geophysics, GIS, digitalization and 3D visualization]

Keywords

• Roman provincial coinage
• Nicaea
• Viminacium
• Pećine