J.Bodzek, S.Jellonek, B.Zając, "Roman Provincial Coins from Balkan Mints found in Lesser Poland", Museion. Zborník Kremnického Múzea Ročnik 2 ( Štúdie z medzinárodnej konferencie Numismatica centroeuropaea IV, ktorá sa uskutočnila v Kremnici 23. – 26. septembra 2019), Kremnica 2023, pp. 37-54 (original) (raw)
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Until recently, finds of Roman provincial coins on the territory of Ukraine were rare (no more than thirty coins). But in recent years, situation has radically changed, due to the active use of metal detectors. Today, we can talk about several hundreds, or even thousands, finds of Roman provincial coins, most dated into the 3rd century AD and minted in the cities of the Balkan provinces. All of them are found in the area of the Chernyakhiv Culture (mainly between the middle reaches of Dnieper and the middle reaches of Dniester), which is associated with Gothic tribes. Inflow of these coins is associated with the events of the mid 3rd century AD exclusively, namely – with participation of the local barbarian population in the Gothic wars. Although the majority of coins originate from Viminacium and Provincia Dacia, among finds there is also a large number of coins from other cities of the Balkan provinces. The largest number includes coins of Marcianopolis, Filippopolis, Deultum, Anchial and Nicopolis ad Istrum. On one side, statistics of these finds draw a picture of their circulation in the Balkans. However, on the other hand, finds of such coins make it possible to clarify certain events of the Gothic wars, which are known in written sources and from archaeological research. In addition, today we can already say that the finds of Roman provincial coins, together with other categories of Roman coins and finds from the 3rd century AD, represent the early horizon of Chernyakhiv Culture.
2016
The publication presents the results of research completed within the ‘Coins of the Roman Republic in Central Europe’ project implemented at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The author discusses the coins of the Roman Republic found in East-Central Europe north of the Sudetes and the Carpathian mountains (the territories of Poland, western Belarus and western Ukraine) – issues from the period of the first Roman emissions until 27 BC. The region of interest was never a part of the Roman state. This means that all of the Roman coins found in this territory must be treated as imports. The main aim of this study is to specify the time, causes, circumstances and directions of the import of Republican coinage to the study area, and to determine its uses in this region. The book includes a foreword written by Aleksander Bursche and contains the inventory of the finds with a comprehensive commentary. It is both numismatic and archaeological in its subject matter, placing itself somewhere on the border between these two disciplines.
Roman Republican bronze coins from Polish finds
published in Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, vol. XLIX, 2014, p. 249-269
The database of Roman Republican bronze coin finds from Poland comprises at present eleven 3rd-2nd century BC issues discovered at ten localities. Only four of these bronzes may be regarded as relatively certain. Due to their small number the interpretation of these finds would be extremely difficult if not for the interpretive key at our disposal – the rich material record from the territory of today’s Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. This material leads us to claim that finds of Roman Republican bronze coins from the region north of the Sudetes and the Carpathians need to examined, first, in a Celtic context, and second, jointly with finds of Celtic coins and 5th-2nd c. BC Greek bronzes. Republican bronzes presumably formed a minor segment in the monetary circulation within the framework of the political and economic activity of the federation of Boii tribes probably up to around 120 BC. The core of this circulation was formed by coinage issued locally (i.a., on the territory of today’s Moravia, Bohemia and southern Poland) and imported Celtic coins, complemented by less numerous coins brought in from outside the Celtic environment, primarily Greek issues. Roman Republican bronze coins most likely found their way to Central Europe with Greek bronzes, some of them from mints in Italy and Sicily, presumably independently of the influx of the 2nd-1st century BC Republican denarii.
Recent years have brought plenty of reports about new discoveries made in central and southern Poland concerning locally issued Celtic coins in gold and Roman Republican silver coins. In some cases they have been found at the same sites. Therefore, the question is to what extent can we examine jointly the use of Celtic coinage and Roman silver coinage in the territories inhabited by the people of the Przeworsk culture and the Tyniec group during the final years of the 1 st century BC and the early years of the 1 st century AD. For the time being, very little is known on the subject. The only thing that can be said with a probability bordering on certainty is that in some parts of this region both types of coins were used during the same period. Additionally, the reservation that the phenomenon of the use of Celtic coins may have ended sooner and may have been more limited in terms of territory must be taken into account. Local coinage activity and import of Roman silver should be connected with some kind of Celtic activity. It is also not impossible that the influx of Republican denarii to the region to the north of the Carpathians and the Sudetes had more complex reasons. The more so because the local late Celtic coinage activity has been examined only within the Boii context, and that other elements may come into play in the territory lying to the north of the mountain ranges, like the activity of other Celtic tribes and of the Dacians. At present, there is little else to do but wait for new coin finds that could shed more light on the subject.
Roman provincial coins in central Europe – a brief update
Pecunia Omnes Vincit, conference proceedings of the fifth and sixth international numismatic and economic conference, 2020
In 1973 Andrzej Kunisz presented a pioneering article on the subject of Roman Provincial Coins (RPC) (then known as “autonomous coins” 2 ) finds in east and central Europe. The materials for a single-state research were very scarce, but by broadening the scope of the research to a multi-state area of Barbaricum, he was able to draw some interesting general conclusions. In this paper, that research was built upon by updating and expanding the scope of research to Roman limes area of Rhine and upper Danube, and by supplementing it with a significant rise of the find materials. This paper will focus mainly on statistical and geographical comparisons of the finds. The aim of this paper being bringing more attention to these finds by showing that through their widespread in central Europe they are less of a peculiarity than previously thought.
New Finds of Roman Coins from the Kazimierza Wielka District, Southern Poland
Notae Numismaticae - TOM XV, 2021
The article presents and analyzes several hitherto unpublished finds of Roman coins from the area of the Kazimierza Wielka district. The five pieces in question are unofficial “denarii” of the emperors Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius (struck for Lucilla), one antoninianus in the name of Gordian III, and one devalued radiatus of Gallienus, were all found randomly before the year 1995 within the area of the unexcavated settlement site of the Przeworsk culture at Boronice. The denarius of Trajan comes from the research performed at the site of Słonowice by one of the authors. These finds have been described in the context of some other discoveries of Roman coins from the same region.
The present volume is an imposing collection of works by thirty some experts from sixteen countries of western, central, and eastern Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine), who at the beginning of September 2005 gathered to present at the research workshop of the same title their research, observations, and knowledge about finds of Roman coins discovered beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire. Th~ workshop took place in u Nieborow, a town eighty some kilometers east of Warsaw, in the historical Radziwill Palace, today housing the Muzeum w Nieborowie i Arkadii, a regional subsidiary of the National Museum (Muzeum Narodowe) of Warsaw.