Roman denarii of Tiberius and Caligula discovered in the drainagebasin of the Wisłoka River in southern Poland

• Authors: Dymowski Arkadiusz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

To date only four roman denarii issued in the period between the coming to power of Tiberius in 14 AD and the monetary reform of Nero in 64 AD are known from Poland, all of them single finds. Three — two Tiberius and one Caligula — were discovered in a small area bordering the river Ropa, the left-hand tributary of the Wisłoka. Presumably these coins had found their way to the area north of the Carpathian range from the south. In seeking to identify possible causes of their influx we need to pinpoint, first, factors related to the functioning and decline of the Kingdom of Vannius, the client state of the Roman Empire, established presumably in the southwestern area of today’s Slovakia and in Moravia. An alternative interpretation is to link the coin finds in question with the impact from Dacian culture on the area to the north of the Carpathians. irrespective of the causes of the coin influx, these coin finds, definitely not typical on the territory of Poland, point to the existence in the drainage basin of the Wisłoka around 50 Ad of some special circumstances that we can hope to see illuminated by the results of future archaeological research in the region.

Keywords

EN

Roman Period; Przeworsk Culture; Regnum Vannianum; Roman denari

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Acta Archaeologica Carpathica
• Year: 2013
• Volume: XLVIII
• Pages: 273-284

Contributors

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Dymowski Arkadiusz