CÂTEVA CONSIDERATII ASUPRA UNUI LOT DE MONEDE ROMANE DIN CUSTODIA MUZEULUI NATIONAL AL UNIRII, ALBA IULIA
A FEW CONSIDERATIONS ON A LOT OF ROMAN COINS FROM THE CUSTODY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF UNION ALBA IULIA

Summary/Abstract: The author presents a lot of 85 Roman coins (13 Republican denars and 72 Imperial ones) from the custody of the National Museum of Union Alba Iulia, recuperated from a citizen from Orastioara de Sus commune, Hunedoara county. They have been discovered in the area of the Orastie Mountains but neither the discovery conditions nor the place where they have been found are known for sure. The Roman Republican denars are framed between 169-158 B. C. (an emission of Furius Purpurio) and 32-31 B. C. (two pieces for legions of Marcus Antonius). The Imperial Roman pieces date between 69-71 A. D. (a denar issued by Vespasian) and 138-161 A. D. (a denar which is not dated from Faustina II, of RIC type, III, no. 502 (a), issued under Antoninus Pius. Their repartion on the issuers is the following: Vespasian – 17 (among which one for Titus, three for Domitian), Domitian – 18, Traian – 24, Hadrian – 7 and Antoninus Pius – 6 (among which one piece for Faustina I and another for Faustina II). There are commented the weight of the pieces, the monetary workshops, the three variants confronted by the RIC catalogue (pieces no. 30, 32 and 85) and the conservation state of the coins. On the basis of analyzing the other discoveries of Roman coins, known from speciality literature, from this area, the author supposes that a part of the presented coins could be a fragment from a bigger hoard discovered in the Orastie Mountains.

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