MÜNZEN AUS DER ÄLTEREN RÖMERZEIT IM MILIEU DER NORDKARPATHISCHEN GRUPPE IN DER ZIPS

• Authors: Soják Marián , Novák Andrej

Title variants

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Coins from the Early Roman Period in the north Carpathian group in the Spiš

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

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The paper discusses Roman coins found separately in the outskirts of the town of Spišská Belá (Kežmarok distr.). The analysis showed that the coins are Roman denarii from the 1st – 2nd c., between years 73 and 180 CE. All the coins were found at registered archaeological sites attributed to the northern Carpathian group dated back to the turn of the 4th and 5th c. Most likely, the coins were not in circulation so deep in Barbaricum. Instead, they had been gathered and transferred through generations, and the precious metal they were made of – silver – was later secondarily used. This hypothesis is corroborated by finds of numerous coins with broken edges including seven denarii from Spišská Belá. The secondary use of older Roman denarii by people belonging to the northern Carpathian group was confirmed at numerous sites in Spiš (e.g. the hoard from Žehra, Temná Cave) or Liptov but also in Czechia, Lesser Poland, Ukraine and Upper Silesia.

Keywords

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SLOVAKIA; NORTH CARPATHIAN GROUP; ROMAN COINS; SPIŠ

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: suppl 2
• Pages: 317 – 322

Contributors

author

Soják Marián

• Archeologický ústav SAV, Oddelenie záchranných výskumov – Spiš, Mlynská 6, 052 01 Spišská Nová Ves, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5936-2602

author

Novák Andrej

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovarch.2021.suppl.2.28