MONEDE DACICE DIN COLECłIA MUZEULUI MUNICIPAL “ION RAICA” SEBES
DACIAN COINS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE “ION RAICA” MUNICIPAL MUSEUM FROM SEBES

Summary/Abstract: The author presents six Dacian coins from the collection of the “Ion Raica” municipal museum from Sebes, currently preserved in the National Museum of Unification Alba Iulia. Theplace of discovery is known only in the case of the third piece (inv. 473). Petru Azman from Sebes found the piece by chance in his garden located in Cântarului street, nr. 4, during agricultural labour. The other pieces originate in the Rudolf Weiss collection. The first piece is a tetradrachma from the series of the posthumous of Philip II or an imitation of Philip II type. The second one is an Adâncata-Mânăstirea type. The third one is Mediesu-Aurit type. The last three exemplars (nr. 4-6) belong, probably, to the diversified group of early mintings from Transylvania, the so-called “Celtic-Dacian”, which are included in the "Tulghies-Miresu Mare" type. This material adds up to the data referring to the Dacian and “Celtic-Dacian” pieces preserved in museum collections as well as to the monetary circulation in Dacia before the Roman conquest. The coins were reproduced on plates I-II, in the order of presentation in the catalogue.

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