Contribuții privind prezența monedelor regatului celtic din Thracia în Dobrogea
Contributions Regarding the Presence in Dobruja of Coins from the Celtic Kingdom in Thracia

Summary/Abstract: During the year 2020, a bronze coin struck for the Celtic king Kavaroswas discovered near Lipnița (Constanța County), with the metal detector. It is of the ico-nographic type Nike or Apollo / Nike and was issued in the mint of Mesambria, between239-218 BC. Previous research has generally shown that the area of monetary circulation of bronze coins minted in Mesambria (of the Amazonian / Athena Alkis and Apollo /Celtic shield types) overlaps with that of Kavaros' bronze coins (of the Nike or Apollo /Nike) for the period of the second half of the third century BC. In historical Dobruja, the most northern discoveries (referring to the circulation area of these Celtic coins) are recorded near Cavarna (in the villages of Bojureț, Septemvrijitsi and Sveti Nikola). This fact, to which are added the Celtic discoveries from Ruse and Razgrad, allowed the launch of the hypothesis regarding the control by the Celtic kingdom of Thrace of the area immediately south of the Danube bank. Our specimen appeared at a distance of about 100 km in a straight line from Shumen and Arkunis, respectively, and about 150 km from Mesambria. For the moment, the monetary discovery cannot be related to the existence of a settlement or necropolis of Hellenistic period known in the vicinity of the locality. We do not know to what extent the coin from Lipnița expresses a new northern limit of the Celtic kingdom. It is possible to represent an indication of the remote control of this Danube area by King Kavaros, against the background of the increasing influenc e and military involvement of the Scythian kingdom in Dobruja, towards the end of the 3rd century BC.

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