New Finds of Roman Provincial Bronze Medallions on the Territory of Ukraine
New Finds of Roman Provincial Bronze Medallions on the Territory of Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: Until recently, we had known of only one Roman provincial bronze medallion from the territory of Ukraine. It was found near the village Raiky, Zhytomyr oblast’, in 1930 (a medallion of Elagabalus, minted at Philippopolis in Thrace). The present article describes 5 Roman provincial medallions found recently in Ukraine: 1 medallion of Hadrian from Ephesus (Ionia), 1 medallion of Septimius Severus and 2 of Caracalla, struck at Pergamon (Mysia), and a medallion of Elagabalus from Philippopolis (Thrace). Apart from the medallions,East-European finds of Roman bronze coins of lesser denominations, dating mostly from the 230s–260s, are not rare. On the other hand, the medallions in question belong to a group of the earlier, less common, finds of provincial coinage.It should be noted that while the Roman provincial bronze coins minted in the cities of Asia Minor in the mid-2nd – early 3rd century, are known, for the most part,from the territories on the left bank of the Dnieper, the medallions (mostly from Asia Minor as well) have been found in the area on the right bank of the Dnieper.It may be indicative of certain specific methods of how they reached the Barbarian populations, the methods that were different than in the case of the other Roman provincial bronze coinage of the early 3rd century.

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