A paper is devoted to a publication of a rare for a Northern Black Sea region find – a half of an imitation of a Roman Republican denarius serratus revealed in Olbia Pontica in 2003 in cultural strata during the excavations of the «L-1» area, a Central part of a Citadel...

In the course of revisory archaeological investigations of the Viminacium thermae from 2003 to 2007, 160 monetary finds were discovered, ranging from the Roman Republic (138 BC) to Theodosius II (408–450 AD). With the exception of one specimen that belongs to Roman Repu...

This article presents a case study of three different coin series (RRC 468-RRC 470) minted near contemporaneously in Hispania during the latter stages of the civil war, which present strikingly different representations of foreign peoples and places. While Caesar’s coin...

Hundreds of Roman hoards containing fairly good silver coins were buried around mid-3rd century AD in the north-west of Gaul. Most were not found in houses but hidden in the ground. Why were so many hoards buried outside the safety of a dwelling and, more importantly, w...

In this study, we analyse the issue of the start date of the Poienești-Lucașeuca culture. Based on the dating of certain categories of items discovered in both funerary and habitation sites but also on the information supplied by certain written sources we set the chron...

Cristian Gazdac, Franz Hummer, Eduard Pollhammer. In The Shadow of the Heathens’ Gate. The Black Book of the Gold Coins from Carnuntum

In 2001, Duncan-Jones assessed Howgego’s work on the mobility of Septimius Severus’ Eastern denarii on the basis of hoards in Britain. Duncan-Jones argues that the increased presence of Severus’ Eastern denarii in hoards over time was the manifestation of Gresham’s Law,...

The Roman silver coins found at the Roman Forum in Stobi (Municipium Stobensium) contained 306 specimens (50 denarii, 255 antoniniani and 1 sestertius). Along with the coins, jewelry was also found (two male rings, a pair of gold earrings and a gold children's earring)....

This discussion highlights the significance of often overlooked coin hoards in historical studies of the Roman Empire. It analyses the problems of incorporating numismatics as a means for studying ancient Roman history. The main part of the discussion focuses on the rel...

This contribution concerns a nucleus of coins donated to the Republic of Venice by the Venetian Cardinal Giovan Battista Zen by 1501. Arrived at the Libreria Marciana and then unexpectedly divided between the collections of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Venice and...