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A review of the career and published works of Dimitar Draganov. Bulgarian text.
The author presents seven new letters from the period 1903-1905 discussing the purchase prices of Bulgarian, Serbian, and Bosnian medieval coins. Croatian with English summary.
Su di un opera di M. Valerio Probo edita nel 1525 e conservata a Modena compaiono numerose e fitte note della mano dell'umanista ed erudito portoghese Aquiles Estaço (Achille Stazio, 1524-1581). Di particolare interesse, accanto ai passi sulle epigrafi, sono i riferimenti di argomento numismatico dedicati prevalentemente a monete antiche dell'area veneta e del territorio di Padova, dove a lungo soggiornò prima del suo trasferimento a Roma nel 1557.
A bibliographical survey of Celtic numismatic studies in Switzerland.
A review of the production of several major nineteenth century numismatic works.
A partire dall'esame della localizzazione dei ripostigli e dei rinvenimenti sporadici di monete l'A. tenta una ricostruzione dell'occupazione del territorio e dei principali tracciati viari in Peucezia dall'età greca a quella romana.
Edizione del manoscritto del Cortenovis intitolato De Nummis ad Veteres Carnorum Regulos Pertinentibus Dissertatio
L'A. tenta di riconoscere e catalogare gli esemplari monetali greci, romani e medievali raffigurati sui fogli allegati al manoscritto sulle monete celtiche del Cortenovis.
A review of the production of several major nineteenth century numismatic works.
A catalogue of 214 silver and bronze coins, primarily of the Greek cities of Illyria displayed in the Split Museum. Especially notable is the inclusion of the contents of the Vrbanj hoard of Pharian bronze coins.
Attraverso l'esame del materiale numismatico restituito da scavi vecchi e nuovi l'A. ripercorre la circolazione monetarianell'abitato di Mozia dall'età arcaica al IV sec.a.C. Dalle evidenze disponibili risulta anche una discreta frequentazione dell'isola nella media e tarda età imperiale (II-IV sec.d.C.).
L'A. presenta due didrammi e un nominale d'argento arcaici inediti emessi da Selinunte e recanti sul D/ la foglia di selino, pianta-simbolo della città. Si pensa ad una datazione al 480-470 a.C.
A catalogue of 214 silver and bronze coins, primarily of the Greek cities of Illyria displayed in the Split Museum. Especially notable is the inclusion of the contents of the Vrbanj hoard of Pharian bronze coins.
On pp.180ff.: "La monetazione federale lucana: descrizione, cronologia, tipologia"; pp. 222ff.: "La monetazione brettia: descrizione, cronologia, tipologia".
Attraverso l'esame del materiale numismatico restituito da scavi vecchi e nuovi l'A. ripercorre la circolazione monetarianell'abitato di Mozia dall'età arcaica al IV sec.a.C. Dalle evidenze disponibili risulta anche una discreta frequentazione dell'isola nella media e tarda età imperiale (II-IV sec.d.C.).
Alcune considerazioni sulla litra di Himera battuta per un breve periodo conclusosi con la distruzione della città nel 409 a.C. Da un punto di vista ponderale queste emissioni bronzee si assestarono sul piede della monetazione siracusana del tempo.
A discussion of stylistic issues and the light they shed on the makers of ancient coins with particular emphasis on the unique tetradrachm of Aetna in the Belgian Coin Cabinet. The article includes tables of dies used in Sicily during the fifth century BC.
The author discusses a seventeenth century cast forgery of a stater of Stymphalus that can be linked to the mould that produced it.
Le 486 monete rinvenute nel santuario dedicato prima a Demetra e poi a Populona a Teano attestano un'intensa frequentazoione del luogo fra la fine del IV e la fine del III secolo a.C. in concomitanza con la progressiva romanizzazione del territorio.
On pp. 89-90, R. Barkay catalogues and illustrates 11 coins found at Horvat 'Aqar, found during the excavation of an area in the Carmel range, south of Haifa. On is a procuratorial issue (AD 59-61), 2 are coins of Caesarea, 2 are llate Roman, 1 is Cilician Armenian, and 4 are Ottoman.On pp. 377-417 and pls. I-XI, Barkay also catalogues 223the coins found in a tunnel of the spring at 'Ein Tzur and the surrounding area in the Carmel range. The coins cover the period from 527 BC to AD 1917, but those from the tunnel are mainly late Roman, Vandalic, Ostrogothic and Byzantine up to the time of Constans II.
The author differentiates three similar insect symbols on issues of Magna Graecia and Sicily. Text in English and Greek.
This article deals with two issues of Motya didrachms which were omitted from Jenkins' Coins of Punic Sicily Part I, one because it was wrongly condemned and another which was classified under Segesta in the Naples cabinet; and with an issue of Panormos that was included in Jenkins' work, but now, 35 years later turns out to be false.It further publishes a reverse die of Segesta of ca. 412 BC which was reengraved for use by Panormos.
The author publishes an electrum stater of Cyzicus with the type of Dionysus on a panther found in the environs of Mesembria. Based on hoard evidence the author concludes that these coins circulated in the region between Pericles' Pontic expedition and the fall of Thrace to Philip II. Bulgarian text with French summary.
This paper attributes for the first time a silver litra and a few bronze coins to the western Sicilian town of Alicie, and localizes its hitherto unknown site at the top of mount Polizzo, close to the present day village of Vita, on the basis of coin finds.The coinage of Halykiai started around 415 BC with the emission of tetrantes, apparently a unique obol fraction struck by the town, and continued with a litra and related tetras to be dated immediately before the destruction of Motya by Dionisios of Syracuse in 397 BC. After the quick reconquest of Western Sicily by the Carthaginians, Alicie struck more abundant tetrantes to be dated around 390-370 BC. The coin types are connected with the peculiarity of the site, covered by a thick forest and the place of origin of the river Màzaro, the most important in the region: a nymph offering to a dog, Heracles, a boar,a man-headed bull and a dog. The latter is connected with the chthonian cult of the dog attested at Segesta, Eryx and other poleis of western and eastern Sicily.
A study of the coinage of Pharnabazos from Cyzicus.
The article publishes a Greek silver ring with two eagles picking at a serpent. Parallel scenes on Sicilian coins are discussed, as is the term ΣΟΤΕΡ in ancient Sicily. Further, a unique silver fraction of the [S]Ichaninoi of the early 4th century BC is presented; its reverse type was so far only known from Greek vase painting and depicts a sanctuary of the river-god Sichas.
Edizione delle 85 monete di bronzo provenienti dal santuraio suburbano di Sabucina (Caltanissetta), nella Sicilia interna. Gli esemplari raccolti, emessi dalle zecche di Agrigento e di Siracusa, sono tutti riferibili all'ultimo quarto del V secolo a.C.
A catalogue of eight new acquisitions, ranging from fifth century BC Camarnia in Sicily to Lycian Oinoanda in the second century BC. Text in English and Greek.
For the study of the Greek mint-cities in northern Illyria dealer catalogues are an important tool. In auction catalogues printed between 1904 and 2005 there were 61 specimens of Herakleaia, Pharos, Issa, and King Ballaios, as well as one example from an unidentified mint.
Bronze coins of Alexander III, Philip III and Eupolemos are reattributed to Kaunos.
Four notes on the ancient Greek coinages of Anatolia (Magnesia, Metropolis in Ionia, Rhodes and Apameia).
A list of coins (151, nearly all bronze) from the excavations with a commentary by the author:Several Punic coins (4th century BC to 146 BC) ? among them some interesting early and very small ones; one each from the Ptolemaic Cyrenaica, of the Numidian kingdom, and from the island of Ebusus/Baleares.One halved Roman Republican as, one antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus (268-270).Several Late Roman coins (4th to 5th centuries) ? clipped now and then, Vandalic minimi and Byzantine coins, Carthage mint until about 660 A.D.
A brief overview of the Achaean League hemidrachms of the second century BC.
A catalogue of 214 silver and bronze coins, primarily of the Greek cities of Illyria displayed in the Split Museum. Especially notable is the inclusion of the contents of the Vrbanj hoard of Pharian bronze coins.
Discussion of a Graeco-Bactrian tetradrachm of Euthydemos I.
On pp.180ff.: "La monetazione federale lucana: descrizione, cronologia, tipologia"; pp. 222ff.: "La monetazione brettia: descrizione, cronologia, tipologia".
Alcune considerazioni sulle emissioni del re seleucide Alessandro II (129-126 a.C.), recanti sul R/ una coppia di cornucopie intrecciate.
For coins see index of sources, pp. 347-349.
The author reports on thirteen Ptolemaic coins found during the excavations.
Coins of Cilicia Pedias play a role in several contributions to the publication; cf. plates 1-6.
On pp. 192-217 and pl. 1, D.T. Ariel catalogues and analyzes the 933 bronze and one lead coin found in the excavations. Twenty coins are pre-Hasmonaean (Ptolemaic and Seleucid), 716 are of Alexander Jannaeus, or probably so, 51 are Herodian, 22 post Herodian, and 145 unidentified.
Le 486 monete rinvenute nel santuario dedicato prima a Demetra e poi a Populona a Teano attestano un'intensa frequentazoione del luogo fra la fine del IV e la fine del III secolo a.C. in concomitanza con la progressiva romanizzazione del territorio.
On pp. 89-90, R. Barkay catalogues and illustrates 11 coins found at Horvat 'Aqar, found during the excavation of an area in the Carmel range, south of Haifa. On is a procuratorial issue (AD 59-61), 2 are coins of Caesarea, 2 are llate Roman, 1 is Cilician Armenian, and 4 are Ottoman.On pp. 377-417 and pls. I-XI, Barkay also catalogues 223the coins found in a tunnel of the spring at 'Ein Tzur and the surrounding area in the Carmel range. The coins cover the period from 527 BC to AD 1917, but those from the tunnel are mainly late Roman, Vandalic, Ostrogothic and Byzantine up to the time of Constans II.
The coin type, thought by Kritt to depict Cleopatra Selene and Seleucus Philometor – and to have been struck at Ake-Ptolemais - , de facto is a Damascene bronze issue of that queen together with her son Antiochus XIII, minted between 84/3 and 72/1 B.C.
A new bronze coin of Amastris in Paphlagonia.
1395 coins were found at the site, situated about 50 km south of the Dead Sea at the eastern edge of the Wadi Araba rift valley, during extensive studies of ancient copper production in the area in 1963-1997. 1013 of the coins have been identified. Of these 103 were minted from circ. 300 BC to AD 213. 609 coins are dated between AD 312 and the earthquake of AD 363. The following 60 years are represented by 643 coins and the next 226 years by only 18 coins. No coins were found for the periods AD 656 to 1210 or 1360 to 1800. Eleven Islamic coins date to AD 1210-1360. All 1395 coins are listed. Coin no. 77 is a small copper, apparently unpublished, dated to the third century BC, depicting a bird r. looking backwards on one side and a head (?) on the other.
On p. 46 with fig. 2 , the author illustrates an enlarged obverse of tetradrachm showing the head of Heracles with features of the great king.
The author discusses five new bronze coins with the Athena/lion types of Lysimachus but bearing the name of the otherwise unknown Thracian ruler Sparatesas,countermarked in Odessus. Bulgarian text with English summary.
This monograph (originally a 2003 University of Munich archaeological thesis) contains an illus. chapter on the relevant coinages (pp. 60-96 with figs. 1-39).
On pp. 607-615, N. Mitai-Preis catalogues and illustrates the 48 identifiable coins out of the 370 coins found during the excavations. All are copper apart from two Tyrian tetradrachms dated year 19 (108/7 BC) and 84 (43/2 BC), respectively, and a gigliati of the Order of St. John in Rhodes (early fourteenth century AD). The copper coins include 2 Ptolemaic, 10 Seleucid, 2 Phoenician, 4 Hasmonaean, 6 Roman, 7 Byzantine, and 8 Islamic pieces.
It is argued that Heracles/bull types naming the Odrysians were struck during the Thracian uprising (184/3 BC) against Philip V at Philipopolis led by Cotys. Bulgarian text with English summary.
A brief review of the coinage of Hermione in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Text in English and Greek.
Edizione di due ripostigli analoghi di monete prevalentemente siracusane rinvenuti nel territorio e sull'acropoli di Camarina (1967 e 1980). Si tratta di un nucleo di 19 monete e di un gruzzolo di 33 esemplari emessi a nome di Agatocle, Iceta e Pirro. La cronologia di entrambi i depositi va posta nel periodo immediatamente precedente la presa della città da parte dei Romani nel 258 a.C.
Si dà notizia del rinvenimento di un piccolo deposito monetale effettuato nel 2002 in un vicus di Pompei. Si tratta di 15 monete di area iberica, cirenaica, di Neapolis e di Roma, databili fra il III e l'inizio del I secolo a.C. Di particolare interesse è la presenza di 5 emissioni di Ebusus (nelle Baleari) che attesta l'esistenza di intense relazioni commerciali fra i negotiatores italici e la penisola iberica nel II secolo a.C.
A study of the Seleucid coinage of Berytos.
A catalogue with partial illustration of the 346 coins in this collection, covering coins from Ptolemy II (285-246 BC) to Tiberius III (AD 689-705).
The author discusses the historical implications of shared iconography between minor local coinages of Baetica and central Italy, the large numbers of Ebusan bronze coins found in central italy and the rarity of other Spanish coinages, and the massive copying in central Italy of Ebusan bronze.
A brief history of Cretan Phalasarna and the coinage produced by the city in the late fourth and third centuries BC.
A catalogue of eight new acquisitions, ranging from fifth century BC Camarnia in Sicily to Lycian Oinoanda in the second century BC. Text in English and Greek.
This parcel, probably part of a much larger hoard, contained 231 coins - drachms (5), half drachms (91) and obols (135) - dating from 'Unknown king' (2nd half of 2nd century BC) to Arda&x#x9A;ir IV (end of 2hd century AD). They have been catalogued according to Alram's classification (M. Alram, Nomina Propra Iranica in Nummis, Iranisches Personennamenbuch, vol. 4 (Vienna, 1986)) with the legends transliterated when readable but with all varieties in the details of the bust, symbol etc. not noted by Alram listed.
Nuove considerazioni sulla circolazione delle monete romano-campane a partire da rinvenimenti recenti fra i quali, in modo particolare, è da ricordare il ricco tesoretto di S. Martino in Pensilis.
The author looks at the dated coinages of the Indo-Greek rulers Heliocles and Platon and argues that the dates arecalculated according to a Yavana Era beginning in 186/5 BC. Text in French and Greek.
p. 362, "Münzen": The coin cabinet acquired a double shilling of Wilhelm von Gennep (Cologne), struck at Bonn in 1356; 3,86g, Noss 102a.p. 367, "Münzen": Two Ancient Celtic coins entered the coin cabinet: Ambiani, stater 1st century B.C., 6.13g, Scheers 24, found at Zülpich; Southern Germany, stater (?Regenbogenschüsselchen?) 1st century B.C., 7,58g, de la Tour 9430/Streber 53, found at Zülpich. Also: 102 German banknotes, 1922-23.
Fra la produzione di argomento numismatico del Cortenovis particolare interesse presenta il suo studio sulle monete celtiche a partire dal rinvenimento del tesoretto di Zuglio Carnico (1762). Questo settore di indagine ricevette dalle opere del Cortenovis un notevolissimo impulso ed ad esse farà frequentemente riferimento le letteratura successiva.
Edizione del manoscritto del Cortenovis intitolato De Nummis ad Veteres Carnorum Regulos Pertinentibus Dissertatio
Many coins are mentioned in the report, several of which were identified by Claudia Klages from the Bonn coin cabinet. Only some Ancient Celtic or Roman Republican, most of the coins are Roman Imperial 1st ? 4th/5th century A.D., some European medieval, some early modern or modern. See pp. 288, 289, 291, 293, 294 (2001); 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 345 and 351 (2002).
L'A. tenta di riconoscere e catalogare gli esemplari monetali greci, romani e medievali raffigurati sui fogli allegati al manoscritto sulle monete celtiche del Cortenovis.
A bibliographical survey of Celtic numismatic studies in Switzerland.
The author reports on a group of gold staters of the Cheriton Smiler type (Belgae, c. 55-45 BC) which definitely seem to be modern imitations.
Numismatic and textual evidence are used in an attempt to determine the genealogy of Sinatruces.
Otto denarii d'argento di età repubblicana rinvenuti nel territorio di Civitella Paganico (Grosseto) nel 1989-90. La maggior parte di essi furono emessi fra l'88 e l'80 a.C. e possono essere riferiti al difficile periodo delle guerre civili in Etruria e allo sbarco di Mario a Talamone nell'87 a.C.
A list of coins (151, nearly all bronze) from the excavations with a commentary by the author:Several Punic coins (4th century BC to 146 BC) ? among them some interesting early and very small ones; one each from the Ptolemaic Cyrenaica, of the Numidian kingdom, and from the island of Ebusus/Baleares.One halved Roman Republican as, one antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus (268-270).Several Late Roman coins (4th to 5th centuries) ? clipped now and then, Vandalic minimi and Byzantine coins, Carthage mint until about 660 A.D.
A review of the history of the city and the coinage produced in Lepcis Magna during Punic and Roman rule.
During the Bar Kokhba War, bronze coins with a nebel (harp) were minted in the first and second years, while in the third year of the war, bronze coins with a kinor (lyre) were struck. This is in opposition to all other bronze and large silver coins, the designs of which never changed during the course of the war. Both the harp and the lyre were instruments used in the ceremonies of the Temple. In biblical Hebrew, NBL is a goat skin, and therefore the harp is an instrument made from a goat skin container. For this reason the body of the nebel (harp) was wider than the lyre. On the other hand, the body of the kinor (lyre) was composed of wood and was consequently thinner and more elegant than that of the harp.In this note, the fact that Bar Kokhba bronze coins with the harp from the first year of the war are much heavier (average 10.23g) than the same type from the second year (average 6.27g) is stressed. No explanation for this phenomenon is offered, but it may be that because of this disparity in weight it was decided to change the type to a lyre in the third year. In this way coins of year three which were half the weight of the coins of year one could be differentiated by design. .
On pp. 192-217 and pl. 1, D.T. Ariel catalogues and analyzes the 933 bronze and one lead coin found in the excavations. Twenty coins are pre-Hasmonaean (Ptolemaic and Seleucid), 716 are of Alexander Jannaeus, or probably so, 51 are Herodian, 22 post Herodian, and 145 unidentified.
On pp. 607-615, N. Mitai-Preis catalogues and illustrates the 48 identifiable coins out of the 370 coins found during the excavations. All are copper apart from two Tyrian tetradrachms dated year 19 (108/7 BC) and 84 (43/2 BC), respectively, and a gigliati of the Order of St. John in Rhodes (early fourteenth century AD). The copper coins include 2 Ptolemaic, 10 Seleucid, 2 Phoenician, 4 Hasmonaean, 6 Roman, 7 Byzantine, and 8 Islamic pieces.
A Roman provincial coin struck at Damascus under Volusian depicts on the reverse an image that is best paralleled by depictions of the myth of Daphne, specifically representations of her metamorphosis. This third-century depiction is most closely paralleled by examples from Coptic art. The myth of Daphne is well known to have been connected with Antioch in Syria, but the paucity of literary evidence for Roman Damascus leaves us with no indication for why this scene should have been used there.
From Mark 6:37 (200 denarii were needed to give bread to 5,000 hungry people) one may deduce that the average price for bread in contemporary Galilee was about 6 lepta – i.e. lower than in Rome.
During the Bar Kokhba War, bronze coins with a nebel (harp) were minted in the first and second years, while in the third year of the war, bronze coins with a kinor (lyre) were struck. This is in opposition to all other bronze and large silver coins, the designs of which never changed during the course of the war. Both the harp and the lyre were instruments used in the ceremonies of the Temple. In biblical Hebrew, NBL is a goat skin, and therefore the harp is an instrument made from a goat skin container. For this reason the body of the nebel (harp) was wider than the lyre. On the other hand, the body of the kinor (lyre) was composed of wood and was consequently thinner and more elegant than that of the harp.In this note, the fact that Bar Kokhba bronze coins with the harp from the first year of the war are much heavier (average 10.23g) than the same type from the second year (average 6.27g) is stressed. No explanation for this phenomenon is offered, but it may be that because of this disparity in weight it was decided to change the type to a lyre in the third year. In this way coins of year three which were half the weight of the coins of year one could be differentiated by design. .
On pp. 192-217 and pl. 1, D.T. Ariel catalogues and analyzes the 933 bronze and one lead coin found in the excavations. Twenty coins are pre-Hasmonaean (Ptolemaic and Seleucid), 716 are of Alexander Jannaeus, or probably so, 51 are Herodian, 22 post Herodian, and 145 unidentified.
The coin type, thought by Kritt to depict Cleopatra Selene and Seleucus Philometor – and to have been struck at Ake-Ptolemais - , de facto is a Damascene bronze issue of that queen together with her son Antiochus XIII, minted between 84/3 and 72/1 B.C.
1395 coins were found at the site, situated about 50 km south of the Dead Sea at the eastern edge of the Wadi Araba rift valley, during extensive studies of ancient copper production in the area in 1963-1997. 1013 of the coins have been identified. Of these 103 were minted from circ. 300 BC to AD 213. 609 coins are dated between AD 312 and the earthquake of AD 363. The following 60 years are represented by 643 coins and the next 226 years by only 18 coins. No coins were found for the periods AD 656 to 1210 or 1360 to 1800. Eleven Islamic coins date to AD 1210-1360. All 1395 coins are listed. Coin no. 77 is a small copper, apparently unpublished, dated to the third century BC, depicting a bird r. looking backwards on one side and a head (?) on the other.
At this site, NW of Jerusalem, in excavations of a dwelling house, W. of the synagogue, coins of Marcus Aurelius and Domitian were found (p. 115). They are not further described.
On pp. 486 and 490 the authors discuss and illustrate a denarius of Trajan discovered during the excavation of the Via Principalis of the Roman fort at al-Humayma.
A study of the Seleucid coinage of Berytos.
A catalogue with partial illustration of the 346 coins in this collection, covering coins from Ptolemy II (285-246 BC) to Tiberius III (AD 689-705).
A listing of 152 hoards and their "shelf life"(i.e. the time spans from the earliest to latest coins in the hoards), making deductions on the circulation times of coins in hoards.
Several articles may be interesting to the numismatist (ancient-medieval coins): i.e. that of St. Krmnicek, "Silbergeld", pp. 440-443; Wilhelm Hollstein, "Siliqua," pp. 445-451, illus. (plate 11, a-f); L. Lind, "Sindarve," pp. 456-458, illus. (plate 12, illustrationg the 1st-2nd century AD Roman silver hoard, Gotland 1870, deposited after 300 AD, and which included imperial denarii (several pierced and/or worn, some imitations)); M. Milinkoviç, "Sirmium," pp. 499-503; Ralf Wiechmann, "Skandinavisches Münzwesen," pp. 604-614, illus. (sketches).
A partire dall'esame della localizzazione dei ripostigli e dei rinvenimenti sporadici di monete l'A. tenta una ricostruzione dell'occupazione del territorio e dei principali tracciati viari in Peucezia dall'età greca a quella romana.
Edizione del manoscritto del Cortenovis intitolato De Nummis ad Veteres Carnorum Regulos Pertinentibus Dissertatio
L'A. tenta di riconoscere e catalogare gli esemplari monetali greci, romani e medievali raffigurati sui fogli allegati al manoscritto sulle monete celtiche del Cortenovis.
A catalogue with partial illustration of the 346 coins in this collection, covering coins from Ptolemy II (285-246 BC) to Tiberius III (AD 689-705).
L'uscita dell'edizione italiana del fondamentale lavoro di Philip Grierson The Origins of Money offre all'A. l'occasione per verificare, alla luce delle testimonianze delle fonti e dei dati archeologici, le teorie generali illustrate nell'opera in rapporto alla nascita della moneta nel mondo romano.
A review of the production of several major nineteenth century numismatic works.
Otto denarii d'argento di età repubblicana rinvenuti nel territorio di Civitella Paganico (Grosseto) nel 1989-90. La maggior parte di essi furono emessi fra l'88 e l'80 a.C. e possono essere riferiti al difficile periodo delle guerre civili in Etruria e allo sbarco di Mario a Talamone nell'87 a.C.
A list of coins (151, nearly all bronze) from the excavations with a commentary by the author:Several Punic coins (4th century BC to 146 BC) ? among them some interesting early and very small ones; one each from the Ptolemaic Cyrenaica, of the Numidian kingdom, and from the island of Ebusus/Baleares.One halved Roman Republican as, one antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus (268-270).Several Late Roman coins (4th to 5th centuries) ? clipped now and then, Vandalic minimi and Byzantine coins, Carthage mint until about 660 A.D.
A catalogue of 282 silver denarii and aes coins of the Roman Republic displayed in the Split Museum. Most come from ninteenth century collections formed in Dalmatia.
In una breve nota, l'A. sottolinea la diffusione, attestata da rinvenimenti recenti, del quadrigato romano nella Sicilia occidentale.
Le 486 monete rinvenute nel santuario dedicato prima a Demetra e poi a Populona a Teano attestano un'intensa frequentazoione del luogo fra la fine del IV e la fine del III secolo a.C. in concomitanza con la progressiva romanizzazione del territorio.
Many coins are mentioned in the report, several of which were identified by Claudia Klages from the Bonn coin cabinet. Only some Ancient Celtic or Roman Republican, most of the coins are Roman Imperial 1st ? 4th/5th century A.D., some European medieval, some early modern or modern. See pp. 288, 289, 291, 293, 294 (2001); 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 345 and 351 (2002).
L'A. prende in esame l'adozione sulle monete romane, rara e alquanto sporadica, dell'iconografia di Romolo in armi, fondatore della città. La prima apparizione di questa immagine si data al 56 a.C. (denarius di C. Memmius), mentre in età imperiale il tipo si ritroverà su aurei di Adriano e di Antonino Pio e su bronzi di Commodo e Severo Alessandro.
Edizione di due ripostigli analoghi di monete prevalentemente siracusane rinvenuti nel territorio e sull'acropoli di Camarina (1967 e 1980). Si tratta di un nucleo di 19 monete e di un gruzzolo di 33 esemplari emessi a nome di Agatocle, Iceta e Pirro. La cronologia di entrambi i depositi va posta nel periodo immediatamente precedente la presa della città da parte dei Romani nel 258 a.C.
Si dà notizia del rinvenimento di un piccolo deposito monetale effettuato nel 2002 in un vicus di Pompei. Si tratta di 15 monete di area iberica, cirenaica, di Neapolis e di Roma, databili fra il III e l'inizio del I secolo a.C. Di particolare interesse è la presenza di 5 emissioni di Ebusus (nelle Baleari) che attesta l'esistenza di intense relazioni commerciali fra i negotiatores italici e la penisola iberica nel II secolo a.C.
It is possible to offer new interpretations of seven Roman republican coin types depicting the sun god. Only one of the types commemorates the achievements of an ancestor. The other six types exemplify the exploitation of minting to publicize political views on the most current events: there is an instance of national propaganda from the 130s BC, of state propaganda from the period of Caesar's ascendancy, and four cases of counterpropaganda from the triumviral side during the death throes of the republic.
L'A. sottolinea il valore e l'importanza della traduzione in spagnolo della biografia di C. Middleton, The life of M. T. Cicero, pubblicata a Londra nel 1749. Autore di questa versione è J. N. de Azara, colto e versatile protagonista della vita culturale, politica e mondana nella Spagna del '700. Oltre ad un prologo del traduttore l'opera è arricchita da una serie diu illustrazioni numismatiche che segnalano il rilevante interesse di Azara per la moneta come documento non meramente illustrativo , ma con vera e propria valenza politico-ideologica.
The author discusses the historical implications of shared iconography between minor local coinages of Baetica and central Italy, the large numbers of Ebusan bronze coins found in central italy and the rarity of other Spanish coinages, and the massive copying in central Italy of Ebusan bronze.
Dall'esame delle fonti e della composizione dei tesoretti l'A. nega che la crisi economica dell'età cesariana sia stata determinata da ragioni di insufficienza di circolante monetario attribuendone le cause a motivi finanziari che portarono ad aumenti di prezzi in un contesto di contrazione dei livelli di produzione.
Nuove considerazioni sulla circolazione delle monete romano-campane a partire da rinvenimenti recenti fra i quali, in modo particolare, è da ricordare il ricco tesoretto di S. Martino in Pensilis.
For coins/coinage see Index p. 472 s.v. Münzen/Münzprägung.
Lo studio è dedicato ai multipli, vale a dire a quegli esemplari di grosso taglio, simili ai medaglioni, ma, al contrario di questi, con pieno valore monetario, che da Augusto in poi furono coniati per trasmettere il messaggio del potere e la visione propagandistica dell'imperatore. Il contributo prende in esame alcuni pezzi particolarmente significativi di epoca tardo-antica.
Vengono tratte le conclusioni del convegno sul credito e la moneta nel mondo romano con ampi commenti e note sui contributi scientifici presentati.
Le emissioni bronzee, destinate all'esercito e alle classi medio-basse, furono in epoca tardoantica il veicolo principale per la propaganda corrente dei messaggi del potere. Al contrario, la monetazione aurea, più conservativa, ospitò rappresentazioni legate ai valori e ai temi stabili del mondo romano. Per questo motivo, tali iconografie sopravvissero alla caduta dell'impero nelle monetazioni successive, mentre le prime furono presto abbandonate.
Le esigenze di comunicazione dell'autorità e del comando, mediante l'immagine e la funzionalità dei simboli del potere, vengono ripercorse dall'A., grazie alla documentazione numismatica, per l'età romana imperiale e fino a tutto l'alto medioevo.
L'A. prende in esame le linee della politica monetaria della seconda metà del III secolo d.C. fino a Diocleziano, caratterizzata dalla progressiva perdita del fino d'argento della moneta. A questo proposito viene verificata la validità della legge di Gresham (la moneta cattiva scaccia la buona).
A list of coins (151, nearly all bronze) from the excavations with a commentary by the author:Several Punic coins (4th century BC to 146 BC) ? among them some interesting early and very small ones; one each from the Ptolemaic Cyrenaica, of the Numidian kingdom, and from the island of Ebusus/Baleares.One halved Roman Republican as, one antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus (268-270).Several Late Roman coins (4th to 5th centuries) ? clipped now and then, Vandalic minimi and Byzantine coins, Carthage mint until about 660 A.D.
Edizione di 4 monete di età giulio-claudia e di una spintria, tessera monetale con scena erotica, rinvenute in un corredo tombale di una necropoli sita sulla via Aemilia, ad est di Mutina (Modena).
Vengono sottolineate le conseguenze che la le congiunture inflazionistiche o deflazionistiche ebbero sul credito nel quadro del crollo del sistema monetario del principato e della sua ristrutturazione sul solidus aureo al principio del IV secolo.
Attraverso l'esame del materiale numismatico restituito da scavi vecchi e nuovi l'A. ripercorre la circolazione monetarianell'abitato di Mozia dall'età arcaica al IV sec.a.C. Dalle evidenze disponibili risulta anche una discreta frequentazione dell'isola nella media e tarda età imperiale (II-IV sec.d.C.).
The author presents a bronze seal box bearing the portrait of Nero from the Ravestein collection and discusses its use.
A Spanish translation of the author's Crises et inflation entre Antiquité et Moyen Âge (1992).
I rinvenimenti monetali effettuati nelle città della Campania distrutte dall'eruzione del Vesuvio assumono una notevole importanza in quanto restituiscono la fotografia fedele del numerario circolante nell 79 d.C. e rivelano l'entità dell'accumulazione di denaro nelle mani di privati cittadini.
A brief overview of the mythology of the aegis and its representation on imperial issues from Nero to Marcus Aurelius. Croatian with English summary.
A partire dall'esame delle scarse attestazioni fornite dalle fonti antiche l'A. passa in rassegna quei fenomeni di emissione della moneta che, per motivi diversi, dal periodo greco a quello tardo-antico, sfuggirono al controllo di un'autorità centrale.
A brief look at gold coins from the Boscoreale Hoard in the ANS collection.
A brief look at gold coins and medallions from the Arras Hoard in the ANS collection.
On pp. 89-90, R. Barkay catalogues and illustrates 11 coins found at Horvat 'Aqar, found during the excavation of an area in the Carmel range, south of Haifa. On is a procuratorial issue (AD 59-61), 2 are coins of Caesarea, 2 are llate Roman, 1 is Cilician Armenian, and 4 are Ottoman.On pp. 377-417 and pls. I-XI, Barkay also catalogues 223the coins found in a tunnel of the spring at 'Ein Tzur and the surrounding area in the Carmel range. The coins cover the period from 527 BC to AD 1917, but those from the tunnel are mainly late Roman, Vandalic, Ostrogothic and Byzantine up to the time of Constans II.
P. 11 with fig. 4 illustrates the enlarged obverse of an antoninianus of the Carnuntine usurper Regalianus overstruck in AD 261 on an earlier denarius from the Museum Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria.
A publication of finds from the famous Archaic Greek tunnel, constructed by the architect Eupalinos as a means of bringing freshwater through the side of a mountain and into the city on the island of Samos (Ionia). In Late Antiquity it was re-used by the inhabitants as a catacomb.pp. 137-171 plates 28-31: list of ca. 290 coins (mainly Byzantine aes of the 6th-7th centuries AD) from the excavations, by Ulf Jantzen and Hans. R. Baldus. Some of the coins are illustrated.Numismatically interesting is the bronze mould of a jeweller (?) (no. 769) imitating a Late Roman/Early Byzantine solidus obverse with helmeted and cuirassed frontal bust of emperor holding shield and spear. Some traces of the legend are also visible.Byzantine lead bullae (nos. 1211-1213), as well as bronze (nos. 1235 -1253) and glass weights (nos. 638-640 = 1254 -1256) are also included.
A discussion of European finds of post-Augustan quadrantes with special attention to their presence and use in the canabae legionis of legio X Gemina at Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
1395 coins were found at the site, situated about 50 km south of the Dead Sea at the eastern edge of the Wadi Araba rift valley, during extensive studies of ancient copper production in the area in 1963-1997. 1013 of the coins have been identified. Of these 103 were minted from circ. 300 BC to AD 213. 609 coins are dated between AD 312 and the earthquake of AD 363. The following 60 years are represented by 643 coins and the next 226 years by only 18 coins. No coins were found for the periods AD 656 to 1210 or 1360 to 1800. Eleven Islamic coins date to AD 1210-1360. All 1395 coins are listed. Coin no. 77 is a small copper, apparently unpublished, dated to the third century BC, depicting a bird r. looking backwards on one side and a head (?) on the other.
Many coins are mentioned in the report, several of which were identified by Claudia Klages from the Bonn coin cabinet. Only some Ancient Celtic or Roman Republican, most of the coins are Roman Imperial 1st ? 4th/5th century A.D., some European medieval, some early modern or modern. See pp. 288, 289, 291, 293, 294 (2001); 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 345 and 351 (2002).
On pp. 607-615, N. Mitai-Preis catalogues and illustrates the 48 identifiable coins out of the 370 coins found during the excavations. All are copper apart from two Tyrian tetradrachms dated year 19 (108/7 BC) and 84 (43/2 BC), respectively, and a gigliati of the Order of St. John in Rhodes (early fourteenth century AD). The copper coins include 2 Ptolemaic, 10 Seleucid, 2 Phoenician, 4 Hasmonaean, 6 Roman, 7 Byzantine, and 8 Islamic pieces.
L'A. prende in esame l'adozione sulle monete romane, rara e alquanto sporadica, dell'iconografia di Romolo in armi, fondatore della città. La prima apparizione di questa immagine si data al 56 a.C. (denarius di C. Memmius), mentre in età imperiale il tipo si ritroverà su aurei di Adriano e di Antonino Pio e su bronzi di Commodo e Severo Alessandro.
Su di un sesterzio di Nerone emesso dalla zecca di Lugdunum nel 67 d.C. compare la contromarca SPR. L'A. la interpreta come signa populi romani e la riferisce al 68 d.C. in concomitanza con la ribellione del governatore della Gallia Lugdunensis C. Iulius Vindex contro Roma.
Su di un opera di M. Valerio Probo edita nel 1525 e conservata a Modena compaiono numerose e fitte note della mano dell'umanista ed erudito portoghese Aquiles Estaço (Achille Stazio, 1524-1581). Di particolare interesse, accanto ai passi sulle epigrafi, sono i riferimenti di argomento numismatico dedicati prevalentemente a monete antiche dell'area veneta e del territorio di Padova, dove a lungo soggiornò prima del suo trasferimento a Roma nel 1557.
Alcune note sulla monetazione vandala in Africa settentrionale fra il V e il VI secolo d.C.. Viene analizzata la circolazione, l'iconografia e la metrologia di queste emissioni d'argento e dei piccoli nominali di bronzo.
Dal II sec.a.C. a Settimio Severo viene seguito il ricorrere sulle momnete romane della presenza del ramo d'olivo. A volte associato a sovrani sconfitti, a volte alla personificazione della Pax, questa iconografia viene a sostanziare l'immagine dell'imperatore vittorioso, garante della pietas e della concordia universale.
Along the German limes in Austria and in the adjascent areas of Noricum and Pannonia there circulated, mainly in the Severan period, considerable numbers of iron core copies of Roman aes coinage. The practical experiment which is described here explores the method of manufacturing these copies from the production of copper coated blanks and the dies to the actual striking process. A specific role is played in this by the strange fact that some of the iron ore coins seem to be struck with official dies, which can hardly be the case. In fact the dies for such coins were produced in a mechanical way by striking, using official coins as the punch. The experiment shows how well this method in fact works.
Two limestone moulds for casting blanks were recently found at Châteaubleau (France) during the excavation of an irregular but highly technical mint which was active in the course of the third century AD. One was twofold and complete, and was evidently used, while the other, a matrix, was discarded before it was completed. The alveoles which were connected by small channels were calibrated for casting imitations of double sestertii of Postumus which were produced in the years 266-270 in the principal unofficial mint, the "atelier II," which seems to be very similar to the officinae of Châteaubleau.The find is exceptional in several respects. Not only is it the first stone mould from the Gallo-Roman period, it is also the latest and most western of them, at a long distance from those found on Cyprus or in the Middle East which date from the second century BC to the first century AD. It thus confirms that this type of mould for the mass production of blanks for bronze coinage was widely used in antiquity.
On pp. 486 and 490 the authors discuss and illustrate a denarius of Trajan discovered during the excavation of the Via Principalis of the Roman fort at al-Humayma.
Domitian's Ludi Saeculares coinage (AD 88) violates the usual patterns of Roman mint production: one festival dominates all six denominations of gold, silver, and bronze. Consistency in legends and in reverse types across the issue suggests that unusual care was taken in designing these coins. One composition is even repeated on both silver and bronze. Ten events during the Ludi Saeculares, nine of them religious rituals prescribed by the Sibylline oracle, are depicted on the bronze coinage. Variations among specimens within each type, however, indicate that some details, such as the pedimental iconography of temples, were created by individual die carvers and must not have been specified in the original design. Using the textual evidence for other imperial celebrations of the Ludi Saeculares, previous scholars have focused on matching each coin type with a known event and eaqch architectuarl type with a known loacation in Rome. This article reveals the problems with such an approach and uses instead a variety of historical, iconographic, and numismatic methodologies to explore questions of design, audience, context, and interpretation. I conclude that, for a limited audience, these coins attempted to send a coherent message emphasizing the solmenity and ritual completeness of Domitian's Ludi Saeculares and linking his celebration to the Augustan Ludi Saeculares of 17 BC. But, because Domitian's experiment in using coinage for detailed communication was not subsequently imitated, this set of coins is unique.
Edizione di 277 monete frammentarie in bronzo rinvenute nel 1991 all'interno della cinta muraria di Porto. Le monete sono databili fra il IV e il V secolo d.C. e il ripostiglio dovette essere chiuso ed interrato in concomitanza con il sacco vandalo di Genserico nel 455 d.C.
For comparison, some mid 3rd / early 4th century AD coin reverses with depictions of architectural monuments are reproduced (pl. 7, a-c).
Grandi proprietà fondiarie e rendite finanziarie, diminuzione de circolante monetario e aumento dei tassi di interesse costituiscono lo sfondo della profonda crisi del 33 d.C. che divise la classe dei proprietari in creditori e debitori. L'A. esamina le misure di intervento adottate dall'imperatore Tiberio per porre rimedio alla difficile congiuntura.
A listing of 152 hoards and their "shelf life"(i.e. the time spans from the earliest to latest coins in the hoards), making deductions on the circulation times of coins in hoards.
L'A. descrive l'organizzazione finanziaria nel periodo repubblicano e sottolinea i cambiamenti introdotti da Augusto. Viene inoltre esaminata la struttura dell'aerarium in età imperiale e, nell'ambito delle misure atte a risanare le finanze dello Stato, vengono annoverate le donazioni effettuate al tesoro dall'imperatore dal proprio patrimonio personale.
A Roman provincial coin struck at Damascus under Volusian depicts on the reverse an image that is best paralleled by depictions of the myth of Daphne, specifically representations of her metamorphosis. This third-century depiction is most closely paralleled by examples from Coptic art. The myth of Daphne is well known to have been connected with Antioch in Syria, but the paucity of literary evidence for Roman Damascus leaves us with no indication for why this scene should have been used there.
Scientific analysis of 26 billon tetradrachms of Alexandria clearly shows a direct relationship between the silver content of these issues and contemporary silver issues of Antioch, Tyre and Rome.
The author suggests that a Carallia issue of Philip I involving a "Sardis" obverse die, is really a "Sardis" coin with the reverse inscription retooled to name Carallia in modern times.
Coins of Cilicia Pedias play a role in several contributions to the publication; cf. plates 1-6.
From Mark 6:37 (200 denarii were needed to give bread to 5,000 hungry people) one may deduce that the average price for bread in contemporary Galilee was about 6 lepta – i.e. lower than in Rome.
During the Bar Kokhba War, bronze coins with a nebel (harp) were minted in the first and second years, while in the third year of the war, bronze coins with a kinor (lyre) were struck. This is in opposition to all other bronze and large silver coins, the designs of which never changed during the course of the war. Both the harp and the lyre were instruments used in the ceremonies of the Temple. In biblical Hebrew, NBL is a goat skin, and therefore the harp is an instrument made from a goat skin container. For this reason the body of the nebel (harp) was wider than the lyre. On the other hand, the body of the kinor (lyre) was composed of wood and was consequently thinner and more elegant than that of the harp.In this note, the fact that Bar Kokhba bronze coins with the harp from the first year of the war are much heavier (average 10.23g) than the same type from the second year (average 6.27g) is stressed. No explanation for this phenomenon is offered, but it may be that because of this disparity in weight it was decided to change the type to a lyre in the third year. In this way coins of year three which were half the weight of the coins of year one could be differentiated by design. .
This article covers the Upper Egyptian nomes Kynopolites, Oxyrhynchites, Herakleopolites and Aphroditopolites and provides addenda to Arsinoites.
On pp. 192-217 and pl. 1, D.T. Ariel catalogues and analyzes the 933 bronze and one lead coin found in the excavations. Twenty coins are pre-Hasmonaean (Ptolemaic and Seleucid), 716 are of Alexander Jannaeus, or probably so, 51 are Herodian, 22 post Herodian, and 145 unidentified.
The author discusses a find of five new quadrantes of Plautilla and Julia Domna and suggests that the coins were produced by Dalmatian supporters of Geta during the crisis of AD 212/213. Croatian with English summary.
On pp. 89-90, R. Barkay catalogues and illustrates 11 coins found at Horvat 'Aqar, found during the excavation of an area in the Carmel range, south of Haifa. On is a procuratorial issue (AD 59-61), 2 are coins of Caesarea, 2 are llate Roman, 1 is Cilician Armenian, and 4 are Ottoman.On pp. 377-417 and pls. I-XI, Barkay also catalogues 223the coins found in a tunnel of the spring at 'Ein Tzur and the surrounding area in the Carmel range. The coins cover the period from 527 BC to AD 1917, but those from the tunnel are mainly late Roman, Vandalic, Ostrogothic and Byzantine up to the time of Constans II.
For Apollo of Pednelissos on coins of that city and on a rock relief from his sanctuary near modern Kozan , see p. 137 with pl. 16, c-b.
1395 coins were found at the site, situated about 50 km south of the Dead Sea at the eastern edge of the Wadi Araba rift valley, during extensive studies of ancient copper production in the area in 1963-1997. 1013 of the coins have been identified. Of these 103 were minted from circ. 300 BC to AD 213. 609 coins are dated between AD 312 and the earthquake of AD 363. The following 60 years are represented by 643 coins and the next 226 years by only 18 coins. No coins were found for the periods AD 656 to 1210 or 1360 to 1800. Eleven Islamic coins date to AD 1210-1360. All 1395 coins are listed. Coin no. 77 is a small copper, apparently unpublished, dated to the third century BC, depicting a bird r. looking backwards on one side and a head (?) on the other.
On pp. 607-615, N. Mitai-Preis catalogues and illustrates the 48 identifiable coins out of the 370 coins found during the excavations. All are copper apart from two Tyrian tetradrachms dated year 19 (108/7 BC) and 84 (43/2 BC), respectively, and a gigliati of the Order of St. John in Rhodes (early fourteenth century AD). The copper coins include 2 Ptolemaic, 10 Seleucid, 2 Phoenician, 4 Hasmonaean, 6 Roman, 7 Byzantine, and 8 Islamic pieces.
At this site, NW of Jerusalem, in excavations of a dwelling house, W. of the synagogue, coins of Marcus Aurelius and Domitian were found (p. 115). They are not further described.
A brief review of the coinage of Hermione in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Text in English and Greek.
A review of the history of the city and the coinage produced in Lepcis Magna during Punic and Roman rule.
This parcel, probably part of a much larger hoard, contained 231 coins - drachms (5), half drachms (91) and obols (135) - dating from 'Unknown king' (2nd half of 2nd century BC) to Arda&x#x9A;ir IV (end of 2hd century AD). They have been catalogued according to Alram's classification (M. Alram, Nomina Propra Iranica in Nummis, Iranisches Personennamenbuch, vol. 4 (Vienna, 1986)) with the legends transliterated when readable but with all varieties in the details of the bust, symbol etc. not noted by Alram listed.
A list of coins (151, nearly all bronze) from the excavations with a commentary by the author:Several Punic coins (4th century BC to 146 BC) ? among them some interesting early and very small ones; one each from the Ptolemaic Cyrenaica, of the Numidian kingdom, and from the island of Ebusus/Baleares.One halved Roman Republican as, one antoninianus of Claudius II Gothicus (268-270).Several Late Roman coins (4th to 5th centuries) ? clipped now and then, Vandalic minimi and Byzantine coins, Carthage mint until about 660 A.D.
The author discusses a small hoard of fourteenth century Byzantine, Ottoman, and Beylik issues. Text in English and Greek.
Discussion of a copper trachy of Andronicus II and Michael IX.
Discussion of a hoard of 592 aspers of Trebizond.
A discussion of the silver basilika and bronze trachea associated with the conflict between Andronicus II and Andronicus III. Text in English and Greek.
On pp. 89-90, R. Barkay catalogues and illustrates 11 coins found at Horvat 'Aqar, found during the excavation of an area in the Carmel range, south of Haifa. On is a procuratorial issue (AD 59-61), 2 are coins of Caesarea, 2 are llate Roman, 1 is Cilician Armenian, and 4 are Ottoman.On pp. 377-417 and pls. I-XI, Barkay also catalogues 223the coins found in a tunnel of the spring at 'Ein Tzur and the surrounding area in the Carmel range. The coins cover the period from 527 BC to AD 1917, but those from the tunnel are mainly late Roman, Vandalic, Ostrogothic and Byzantine up to the time of Constans II.
A publication of finds from the famous Archaic Greek tunnel, constructed by the architect Eupalinos as a means of bringing freshwater through the side of a mountain and into the city on the island of Samos (Ionia). In Late Antiquity it was re-used by the inhabitants as a catacomb.pp. 137-171 plates 28-31: list of ca. 290 coins (mainly Byzantine aes of the 6th-7th centuries AD) from the excavations, by Ulf Jantzen and Hans. R. Baldus. Some of the coins are illustrated.Numismatically interesting is the bronze mould of a jeweller (?) (no. 769) imitating a Late Roman/Early Byzantine solidus obverse with helmeted and cuirassed frontal bust of emperor holding shield and spear. Some traces of the legend are also visible.Byzantine lead bullae (nos. 1211-1213), as well as bronze (nos. 1235 -1253) and glass weights (nos. 638-640 = 1254 -1256) are also included.
On pp. 607-615, N. Mitai-Preis catalogues and illustrates the 48 identifiable coins out of the 370 coins found during the excavations. All are copper apart from two Tyrian tetradrachms dated year 19 (108/7 BC) and 84 (43/2 BC), respectively, and a gigliati of the Order of St. John in Rhodes (early fourteenth century AD). The copper coins include 2 Ptolemaic, 10 Seleucid, 2 Phoenician, 4 Hasmonaean, 6 Roman, 7 Byzantine, and 8 Islamic pieces.
Alcune note sulla monetazione vandala in Africa settentrionale fra il V e il VI secolo d.C.. Viene analizzata la circolazione, l'iconografia e la metrologia di queste emissioni d'argento e dei piccoli nominali di bronzo.
The author presents a twelfth century seal of Georgios Glavas an eleventh century seal of Epiphanios Pentaktenis. Text in English and Greek.
This paper considers the large copper folles struck by the Arabs at Scythopolis/Baisan and Gerasa/Jerash in the early Umayyad period. The coins copy regular Byzantine folles issued at Nikomedia by Justin II and Sophia in the 570s, but must have been struck in the 670s or 680s. As well as literate or semi-literate mint signatures on these coins, there are some legends which are clearly not reading either Scythopolis or Gerasa. Now 14 coins (some of which are die-duplicates) have been identified on which the obverse legends all start ABL (in Greek letters). Subsequent letters are variable. It is, however, suggested that these coins were struck at Abila, modern Tel Abil, which is situated about 50 km north of Gerasa and 40 km north-east of Scythopolis.
The author publishes a new 3/4 solidus of Maurice Tiberius in connection with other Byzantine gold of the sixth and seventh centuries AD.
Two unrecorded basilica of Matthew Kantakuzenos are attributed to the mint of Constantinople. The reverse legend of the first type apparently repeats the protocol to the horismos attached to the records of the hesychast council of 1351 when Matthew was made co-emperor by his father in 1354. This and the fact that the typology revives the linear inscriptions of the middle Byzantine miliarensia suggests its production for ceremonial use at the coronation of Matthew in the church of Blachernai.The second type - as stylistically clearly a product of the metropolitan mints as the first one - surprisingly represents MAtthew as sole emperor, although the younger Kantakuzenos was never actually in power there. This might be explained by the breaking up of the Kantakuzenos party in Constantinople in the conflict following the return of John V Pailiologos in November 1354 when the partisans of the negotiating John VI Kantakuzenos aqrguably transferred theior allegiance to the younger representative of the Kantakuzene dynasty. There are reports that Kantakuzene followers refused to obey John VI's orders to hand over to the Palaiologans a key fortress; so both mits which were probably located in the city seem to have remained in Kantakuzene control for the major part of the conflict.
Among finds at this site was a small pot containing 751 gold solidi: 95 of Phocas, 382 of Heraclius, 216 of Constans II, and 48 of Constantine IV.
A catalogue with partial illustration of the 346 coins in this collection, covering coins from Ptolemy II (285-246 BC) to Tiberius III (AD 689-705).
The author presents a sixth century hoard of bronze coins of Justinian I. Bulgarian text with French summary.
L'A. rintraccia sul D/ di un tremisse merovingio emesso nel 625 dalla zecca di Aventicum (Avenches, Svizzera) la prima adozione del volto di Cristo. Ispirato al Mandylion di Edessa, la moneta precede di quasi settanta anni la comparsa di questa iconografia su un solidus di Giustiniano II battuto a Costantinopoli nel 692.
A listing of 152 hoards and their "shelf life"(i.e. the time spans from the earliest to latest coins in the hoards), making deductions on the circulation times of coins in hoards.
The author presents a hoard of six copper of Andronicus II from the Constantinople mint, probably deposited during the Tatar invasion of northeastern Bulgaria. Bulgarian text with English summary.
The author discusses a small hoard of fourteenth century Byzantine, Ottoman, and Beylik issues. Text in English and Greek.
Discussion of the issuer of an Arab-Sasanian coin of Arrajan.
In 2003 at Krasnaia Rechka hillfort (medieval Naviket, Chu Valley, Kirghiz Republic) was found a hoard of 280 Khytai dirhams, minted shortly after n