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...

The chemical and elementary composition, internal arrangement, and spatial distribution of the components of ancient Greek copper coins were studied using XRF analysis, neutron diffraction and neutron tomography methods. The studied coins are interesting from a historic...

It is not for the first century already, that the composition of the monetary circulation of the Crimean Khanate in different periods of its history has been studied. As a result was developed an objective and largely consistent scheme of attribution and dating of its c...

Inclination to exploit renewable energy and their potential storage by facile, cost-effective, and above all in a green way are exactly what the current alternative energy research is looking for. The high-performance supercapacitor devices made up with the electrode ma...

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,...