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Aspects of Roman Republican coins found in Late Iron Age Dacia

Roman Republic Coins Aspects of Roman Republican coins found in Late Iron Age Dacia

Kris Lockyear

Miscellanea numismatica Antiquitatis: In honorem septagenarii magistri Virgilii Mihailescu-Bîrliba oblata. Ediderunt Victor Spinei, Lucian Munteau, Iasi, (2008) p. 147-176

Abstract

1.) Introduction

I first met Virgil in 19912 during my first trip to Romania when I visited  Iasi and he and his family were kind enough to look after me. The following year I spent some six months studying at the Institute  of Archaeology there, and then in 1996 Virgil, Tim Sly and I organised the annual Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference. It is, therefore, a great pleasure to contribute this paper to my dear friend’s  Festschrift both in thanks for all the help and friendship he has shown me over the years, and to wish him the best for the future.



Given Virgil’s numismatic interests it seemed appropriate to examine the problem of the Roman republic denarii from late Iron Age Dacia. The finds of denarii in Dacia have been described as “one of the most remarkable phenomena within the pattern of monetary circulation in antiquity…”. This pattern raises many problems in analysis and interpretation but here I want to focus on two of the more basic problems: at what date did Roman Republican denarii start to arrive in Dacia in quantity and what proportion of the denarii are locally made copies?

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