Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (11.2016)

M ,4 L G O R Z AT A B Y RSKA-F U D A LI, TO M A S Z F U D A LI

with S-shaped forms, present throughout the Roman period. These vessels are
decorated with an ornament of nail-made hollows. This kind of ornamentation is
also attested for the other settlements of the Przeworsk culture from the beginning
of phase B1 until the C1 phase of the Roman period.6 The coin was unearthed from
the upper layer of the said location, but there is no doubt as to its connection to it.
The discovery of this denarius constitutes an important element in determining
the timeline of the settlemenfs existence. As based on the dating of the pottery
and the fibulae, it has been assumed that the settlement ceased to exist within
the limits of the phase C1 a of the period of Roman influence. Precisely determining
when these coins reached the Barbaricum and continued to be in circulation is
problematic, but the above-mentioned denarius must be linked with the finał stages
of the existence of the settlement.
It is noteworthy that sonie other coin finds have been recovered in the area
of the settlement from the Roman period at Kryspinów.7 A Celtic coin was
found at the same settlement during the excavations performed by the Institute
of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University in 1995.8 This coin, incorrectly
identified by the finder as a stater (Kraków type), was found in the upper layer
of the filling of hut no. 108, dating to phase B2 of the period of Roman influence.
Another find from the terrain of this settlement, much closer chronologically
to the denarius of Trajan in ąuestion, is a denarius of Hadrian from the years 119-
-122.9 The coin was recovered from arabie land, with no details of its archaeo-
-logical context. Moreover, some other finds of ancient coins had been reported
as discovered at undetermined locations within the area of Kryspinów. In 1825,
a denarius of Marcus Aurelius from the year 168 and another, though indecipherable,
denarius of that emperor were found in the area of the same village, at the tirne
known as Śmierdząca.10 These coins were once part of the collection owned by
Ambroży Grabowski. Random finds also include a drachma of Mithridates II,
the ruler of Parthia (124/3-87), which was found in 1935 and is now in
the collection of the National Museum in Kraków.11
The recently found coin of Trajan corresponds to the generał picture of
these finds. Along with the denarius of Hadrian from the previous exploration by

6 GODŁOWSKI 1977a: 7-237.
7 KACZANOWSKI 1997: 84-100.
8 KACZANOWSKI 1996; IDEM 1997: 89f, ill. 1.1.
9 Ibidem', ills. 1,3.
10 PIOTROWICZ 1929: 53, no. 6; K. GODŁOWSKI 1961: 154; KUNISZ 1985: 106, no. 115;
KACZANOWSKI 1997; KACZANOWSKI and MARGOS 2002: 122, no. 378; KOLENDO 2006: 257,
nos. 21-22; 260-268.
11 PIOTROWICZ 1935: 151; KUBIAK 1978: 198; MIELCZAREK 1988: 141, 153; IDEM 1989: 142,
no. 14; KACZANOWSKI 1997: 85ff, 95.