Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (14.2019)

EMANUEL PETAC, AUREL VILCU

10. ZQ, magistrate; 1.31 g; 10 mm; 12 h; SNG BM Black Sea 175; SNG
Stancomb 47; “Vasile Parvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian
Academy, Bucharest; 235/803; Pl. 3, Fig. 10.
11. ZQ, magistrate; 1.28 g; 11 mm; 12 h; SNG BM Black Sea 175; SNG
Stancomb 47; Library of the Romanian Academy; PV 10340 (53/908);
Pl. 3, Fig. 11.
12. KTH, magistrate; 1.31 g; 12 mm; 6 h; SNG BM Black Sea 176; SNG
Stancomb -; Library of the Romanian Academy; PV 10344 (53/912);
Pl. 3, Fig. 12.
13. OI, magistrate; 1.31 g; 10 mm; 5 h; IMHOOF-BLUMER 1883: 236, no. 39;
SNG BM Black Sea-; SNG Stancomb -; Library of the Romanian Academy;
PV 10342 (53/910); Pl. 3, Fig. 13.
14. nA, magistrate; crayfish under left fluke, letter A under right fluke; 1.28 g;
10 mm; 11 h; IMHOOF-BLUMER 1908: 142; SNG BM Black Sea -;
SNG Stancomb -; CNT 7503; Romanian Academy; PV 10345 (53/913);
Pl. 3, Fig. 14.
B. Mesembria - silver diobols
Obverse', crested Corinthian helmet facing
Reverse'. M-E-T-A in the four quarters of a radiate wheel with four spokes
15. No magistrate name; 1.29 g; 10 mm; 3 h; SNG BM Black Sea 268-271;
SNG Stancomb 219-222; KARAYOTOV 1994: nos. 39-130; Library of
the Romanian Academy; Reg. 68, PV 7272 (470/ 23246); Pl. 3, Fig. 15.
16. No magistrate name; 1.28 g; 11 mm; 6 h; SNG BM Black Sea 268-271;
SNG Stancomb 219-222; KARAYOTOV 1994: nos. 39-130; “Vasile
Parvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest;
235/808; Pl. 3, Fig. 16.
There are not many hoards containing coins from Apollonia and Mesembria
from this period in the area, with all of them spread over a swathe of NE Bulgaria
and SE Romania - in fact, all of them come from the historical region of Dobruja.
In Bulgaria, a few hoards have been found at Medovets, Dalgopol municipality,
Varna region (20 diobols, 4 “reduced drachms”14 from Apollonia Pontica and

For Apollonia drachms see YORDANOVA 2013: 13-23 and IVANOVA 2017: 89-104.