DOI Artikel:
Dymowski, Arkadiusz: The use of Celtic and Roman coins in the territory of Poland at the turn of the era - in tandem or separately?: new finds, new evidence
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.31074#0087
Tom X
Kraków 20I5
DOI: 10.12797/ZP.10.20I5.10.05
ARKADIUSZ DYMOWSKI
Gdynia, Independent Researcher
The Use of Celtic and Roman Coins
in the Territory of Poland at the Tum
of the Era - in Tandem or Separately?
New Finds, New Evidence
ABSTRACT: Recent years have brought plenty of reports about new discov-
eries madę in central and Southern Poland conceming locally issued Celtic coins
in gold and Roman Republican silver coins. In some cases they have been found at
the same sites. Therefore, the question is to what extent can we examine jointly the
use of Celtic coinage and Roman silver coinage in the territories inhabited by the
people of the Przeworsk culture and the Tyniec group during the finał years of the
1" century BC and the early years of the 1^ century AD. For the time being, very
little is known on the subject. The only thing that can be said with a probability
bordering on certainty is that in some parts of this region both types of coins were
used during the same period. Additionally, the reservation that the phenomenon of
the use of Celtic coins may have ended sooner and may have been morę limited in
terms of territory must be taken into account. Local coinage activity and import of
Roman silver should be connected with some kind of Celtic activity. It is also not
impossible that the influx of Republican denarii to the region to the north of the
Carpathians and the Sudetes had morę complex reasons. The morę so because the
local late Celtic coinage activity has been examined only within the Boii context,
and that other elements may come into play in the territory lying to the north of
the mountain ranges, like the activity of other Celtic tribes and of the Dacians. At
present, there is little else to do but wait for new coin finds that could shed morę
light on the subject.
KEY WORDS: Celtic coins, denarius, Roman Republican denarii, Poland,
Carpathians, Dacians
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Kraków 20I5
DOI: 10.12797/ZP.10.20I5.10.05
ARKADIUSZ DYMOWSKI
Gdynia, Independent Researcher
The Use of Celtic and Roman Coins
in the Territory of Poland at the Tum
of the Era - in Tandem or Separately?
New Finds, New Evidence
ABSTRACT: Recent years have brought plenty of reports about new discov-
eries madę in central and Southern Poland conceming locally issued Celtic coins
in gold and Roman Republican silver coins. In some cases they have been found at
the same sites. Therefore, the question is to what extent can we examine jointly the
use of Celtic coinage and Roman silver coinage in the territories inhabited by the
people of the Przeworsk culture and the Tyniec group during the finał years of the
1" century BC and the early years of the 1^ century AD. For the time being, very
little is known on the subject. The only thing that can be said with a probability
bordering on certainty is that in some parts of this region both types of coins were
used during the same period. Additionally, the reservation that the phenomenon of
the use of Celtic coins may have ended sooner and may have been morę limited in
terms of territory must be taken into account. Local coinage activity and import of
Roman silver should be connected with some kind of Celtic activity. It is also not
impossible that the influx of Republican denarii to the region to the north of the
Carpathians and the Sudetes had morę complex reasons. The morę so because the
local late Celtic coinage activity has been examined only within the Boii context,
and that other elements may come into play in the territory lying to the north of
the mountain ranges, like the activity of other Celtic tribes and of the Dacians. At
present, there is little else to do but wait for new coin finds that could shed morę
light on the subject.
KEY WORDS: Celtic coins, denarius, Roman Republican denarii, Poland,
Carpathians, Dacians
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