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DOI article:Czernek, Daniel: A Barbarous imitation of a Roman denarius from Skowronno Dolne, gmina Pińczów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
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DANiEL CZERNEK
eariy 4''' century) is indicated at the site in question by a fragmentary two-piece
fibula (group AV1) with a curled-up base and a two-piece fibula with a high sheath
(group AVII), Sarmatian type, with a wide bow and a boss on its head.
Besides the above-mentioned items, let us also take notę of some artefacts
datable within broader tinte-frames, such as a piece of a bronze pin with a high-
ly moulded head, subgroup Hb or He according to B. Beckmamfs classihcation.
Such a pin type had been used over the course of the Eariy and Late periods of
Roman influence.^
Another coin found during the exploration work is a denarius of Trajan:
AR-Roma 103-111 (AD 106), weight: 2.83 g, diameter 17.6 mm, axis vii
Obv.: [IMP TRAIA]NOAVG[GER DAC P M TR P]
TrajanŃ bust laureate, right, draped on the ieft shoulder
Rev.: COS V P [P SPQR OPTtMO] PRINC
Victoria standing, right, hoiding a wreath in her raised right and a paim in her ieft hand
BMC RE III, p. 76, no. 328 (Pi. I, Fig. 2 a-b)
As noted belbre, the imitation front Skowronno Dolne is notable lor belong-
ing to a set of coins that exhibit a high degree of portrait, depiction, and legend
barbarization (Map 1). Such coins are also characterized by their lack of specihty
in the emperor's portrait (which could have represented Antoninus Pius or Marcus
Aurelius) as well as by the geometrized set of symbols used to imitate the original
legendsA These particular characteristics are visible on a stray specimen front
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, struck probably in the
second half of the 2""* century AD, but no later than the tum of the 2'^ and 3'^ centu-
ries. This coin is an imitation of one of the denarii types of Antoninus Pius." The
obverse and reverse legends of this coin are madę up of sequences of some sintple
symbols, of which only a few ntay be identihed as characters of the Latin alpha-
betL Sintilar features can be Rund on a coin from Kraśnik, Lublin Voivodeship,
modelled on one of the issues of the denarius of Marcus AureliusL In the course
^ B. BECKMANN, "Studien Liber die Metallnadeln der rómischen Kaiserzeit im Freien Germanien." Roa/-
ÓMrg-J^rÓMcZ? XXIII, )966, pp. 16-18, 40-44, Tafel I.
Cf. MORAWIECKI, "Barbarzyńskie naśiadownictwa...," pp. 627-629; L. LIND, "A group of barba-
rous Roman denarii represented in Sweden and Hungary (and Germany and Britain?)" [in:] M. ANDERSEN,
1-I.W. HORSN/ES, J.C. MOESGAARD (eds.), A&gA/er AZowetae. Ar/rZ/As //? ZZo/?oM/' o/RZeew
Copenhagen 2007, p. 53.
" I. KUCZYŃSKI, "Barbarzyńskie naśladownictwo denara rzymskiego z Ostrowca Świętokrzyskiego,"
Roczw/A A&ze:<w RwytoArzgsAtego 2, 1964, p. 138.
ZA/rZew, pp. 137-138; P. KACZANOWSKI, U. MARGOS, 7bZw/<? Zwpe/7/ Rowrr/?/. AZ 34 - ZC/aZrów,
Kraków 2002, p. 231, no. 537.
'^A.GUPIENIEC,"Kraśnik, pow. Kraśnik," R7o<7o/77ofc/AMW/z/Hć7ry<rz77ć'VIL4, 1963,p. I85;A. KUNISZ.
Zwa/ezZ^Aa wowet rzyw^ł/cZ? z AZa/opo/^AZ, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk-Łódź 1985, p. 104, no. 113:11;
eariy 4''' century) is indicated at the site in question by a fragmentary two-piece
fibula (group AV1) with a curled-up base and a two-piece fibula with a high sheath
(group AVII), Sarmatian type, with a wide bow and a boss on its head.
Besides the above-mentioned items, let us also take notę of some artefacts
datable within broader tinte-frames, such as a piece of a bronze pin with a high-
ly moulded head, subgroup Hb or He according to B. Beckmamfs classihcation.
Such a pin type had been used over the course of the Eariy and Late periods of
Roman influence.^
Another coin found during the exploration work is a denarius of Trajan:
AR-Roma 103-111 (AD 106), weight: 2.83 g, diameter 17.6 mm, axis vii
Obv.: [IMP TRAIA]NOAVG[GER DAC P M TR P]
TrajanŃ bust laureate, right, draped on the ieft shoulder
Rev.: COS V P [P SPQR OPTtMO] PRINC
Victoria standing, right, hoiding a wreath in her raised right and a paim in her ieft hand
BMC RE III, p. 76, no. 328 (Pi. I, Fig. 2 a-b)
As noted belbre, the imitation front Skowronno Dolne is notable lor belong-
ing to a set of coins that exhibit a high degree of portrait, depiction, and legend
barbarization (Map 1). Such coins are also characterized by their lack of specihty
in the emperor's portrait (which could have represented Antoninus Pius or Marcus
Aurelius) as well as by the geometrized set of symbols used to imitate the original
legendsA These particular characteristics are visible on a stray specimen front
Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, struck probably in the
second half of the 2""* century AD, but no later than the tum of the 2'^ and 3'^ centu-
ries. This coin is an imitation of one of the denarii types of Antoninus Pius." The
obverse and reverse legends of this coin are madę up of sequences of some sintple
symbols, of which only a few ntay be identihed as characters of the Latin alpha-
betL Sintilar features can be Rund on a coin from Kraśnik, Lublin Voivodeship,
modelled on one of the issues of the denarius of Marcus AureliusL In the course
^ B. BECKMANN, "Studien Liber die Metallnadeln der rómischen Kaiserzeit im Freien Germanien." Roa/-
ÓMrg-J^rÓMcZ? XXIII, )966, pp. 16-18, 40-44, Tafel I.
Cf. MORAWIECKI, "Barbarzyńskie naśiadownictwa...," pp. 627-629; L. LIND, "A group of barba-
rous Roman denarii represented in Sweden and Hungary (and Germany and Britain?)" [in:] M. ANDERSEN,
1-I.W. HORSN/ES, J.C. MOESGAARD (eds.), A&gA/er AZowetae. Ar/rZ/As //? ZZo/?oM/' o/RZeew
Copenhagen 2007, p. 53.
" I. KUCZYŃSKI, "Barbarzyńskie naśladownictwo denara rzymskiego z Ostrowca Świętokrzyskiego,"
Roczw/A A&ze:<w RwytoArzgsAtego 2, 1964, p. 138.
ZA/rZew, pp. 137-138; P. KACZANOWSKI, U. MARGOS, 7bZw/<? Zwpe/7/ Rowrr/?/. AZ 34 - ZC/aZrów,
Kraków 2002, p. 231, no. 537.
'^A.GUPIENIEC,"Kraśnik, pow. Kraśnik," R7o<7o/77ofc/AMW/z/Hć7ry<rz77ć'VIL4, 1963,p. I85;A. KUNISZ.
Zwa/ezZ^Aa wowet rzyw^ł/cZ? z AZa/opo/^AZ, Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk-Łódź 1985, p. 104, no. 113:11;