REGRESION OF MONETARY CIRCULATION IN THE PROVINCE OF SCYTHIA (THE LATE VIth AND VIIth CENTURY)
REGRESION OF MONETARY CIRCULATION IN THE PROVINCE OF SCYTHIA (THE LATE VIth AND VIIth CENTURY)

Summary/Abstract: Situation of province Scythia, and of the Eastern Roman Empire after Justinian's death was extremely difficult, pressure migratory populations in northern Danube becoming more oppressive and increasingly defensive capability lower. After the death of Emperor Justinian monetary circulation in the province of Scythia will experience a continuous process of decay due Slavic and Avar attacks, whose maximum intensity occurs from the last years of the sixth century. It may be considered, based on numismatic information in Dobrogea, the era of transition from type Economic urban and rural location in the barbarizing begins around 593. After 602 when the imperial authority rests Danubian provinces demonstrated and numismatic terms until or around 614/15, it stops practically both Roman-Byzantine authority and monetary circulation.

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