Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (7.2012)

ARKADIUSZ DYMOWSKI

from the mid-third century, and one of significantly less volume than the already
mentioned hypothetical inflow of denarii, or the denarii and antonimami until as
late as Trajan Decius’ reign ought to be treated as parts of the same continuous flow
of coinage. It is possible that at least some of those antonimiami had come in as
part of the inter-tribal redistribution from the areas of the Luboszyce and Wielbark
cultures. For the period between the reigns of Trajan Decius and Valerian, we can
speak of the aforementioned meaningful lack of any coin finds. For the subseąuent
period, a fairly high number of antonimiami (eight) issued under the Emperor Va-
lerian. Two of them31 have been identified as minted at Lugdunum, Gaul. In all
probability, therefore, those coins had reached the territory of the Przeworsk Cul-
ture from the West. It was a portion of the above-mentioned flow of the late 250s,
attested for the Luboszyce Culture, or the antoniniani of Valerian came in during
the 260s-270s alongside the antoniniani of the Imperium Galliarum, fairly numer-
ous in Central and Northern Poland,32 as an addition to the coinage of Postumus
and the later one.
Due to inaccurate descriptions and, most of all, the scarcity of the find-based
materiał for the years 211-260, the presented hypotheses on the directions and
chronology of the inflow of the Roman coinage into the areas of the Przeworsk
Culture must remain, perforce, somewhat imprecise. Drawing conclusions on the
basis of a pool of nearly fifty coins struck over a half-century period and found
over a fairly large territory does not offer any grounds for formulating definitive
answers to most of the ąuestions arising from the analysis of the available data.
Constructing a theory on the basis of the absence of certain categories of coins in
finds may sooner or later lead the researcher to confront the necessity of verifying
the formulated hypotheses in the face of receiving the information on new dis-
coveries. As the recently found antoninianus of Egnatia Mariniana demonstrate,
each year, and even each month, brings in new materiał from coin finds, which
contributes to our expanding knowledge of the history of coinage in the territory
of Poland in antiąuity.
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Translated by Marcin Fijak

31 DYMOWSKI, “Drobne znaleziska...”, pp. 121 and 125.”
32 See DYMOWSKI, RUDNICKI, “Kujawskie znaleziska...” for some further literaturę on the subject.