A Hoard with Drachmas Issued by Dyrrhachium and Apollonia from the Brukenthal National Museum Colection (Transylvania II) Cover Image
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Un tezaur conţinând drahme emise de Dyrrhachium şi Apollonia din colecţia Muzeului Naţional Brukenthal (Transilvania II)
A Hoard with Drachmas Issued by Dyrrhachium and Apollonia from the Brukenthal National Museum Colection (Transylvania II)

Author(s): Silviu Istrate Purece, Claudiu Munteanu
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: Dyrrhachium coin; Apollonia coins; Transylvania hoard; drachma; coin circulation in Dacia;

Summary/Abstract: In the Ist century BC large quantities of drachmas issued by the Adriatic cities:Dyrrhachium and Apollonia arrived in the Dacians’ territories. Many hoards,containing this kind of coins, were discovered in Transylvania, some of them beingpreserved in regional museums’collections. Unfortunately, many hoards, recorded inthe oldest collections don’t preserved the discovery places because of the lack ofinterested for such detailes in the time when those pieces were collected. In thissituation is, also, this hoard, named Transylvania II because of the large probabilityto being discovered in this region, which provide interesting information regardingthe typological evolution of Dyrrhachium and Apollonia coins and complete the dataregarding the presence of those coins north to the Danube.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: XVI
  • Page Range: 49 - 75
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Romanian
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