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DOI Artikel:Petac, Emanuel; Vîlcu, Aurel: About the Diobols Hoard of Apollonia Pontica and Mesembria Discovered in 1911 in Constanţa (Ancient Tomis)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.57341#0051
ABOUT TWE DIOBOLS HOARD OF APOLLONIA PONTICA...
16 diobols from Mesembria);15 General Kantardjievo, Aksakovo municipality,
Varna region (31 diobols Apollonia and 3 5 diobols Mesembria),16 Vratarite, Dobrich
region (66 diobols Apollonia, 66 diobols Mesembria together with an unknown
number of diobols from Istros);17 Kladentzi, Tervel municipality, Dobrich region
(1 diobol from Apollonia and 2 diobols from Mesembria).18 There have also been
a few proposals for their closing dates: Vratarite around 339-335 BC,19 General
Kantardjievo20 around 340-320 BC or better 339 BC, Medovets 320-313 BC21 and
Kladentzi 330-320 BC.22
From Romania, there have been even fewer discoveries of hoards containing
diobols from Apollonia and Mesembria, all of them are in the southern part of
Romanian Dobruja, namely: Ion Corvin (formerly Cuzgun), Mangalia (ancient
Kallatis) in around 1958 and Constanta in 1911 (ancient Tomis), with all of them in
Constanta county. We have limited data about the hoard from Ion Corvin.23 It was
discovered in 1903 (and not 1905, as mistakenly claimed in the almost the whole
numismatic literature);24 apparently it not only includes diobols from Apollonia
Pontica and Mesembria, but also silver coins from Istros, Kallatis and Minor Asia,
the old information concerning the presence in the hoard of some electrum staters
from Cyzicus was recently invalidated following archive research in the National
Museum of Antiquities.25 A few years ago, details were published on one drachm
and three diobols from Apollonia Pontica, four diobols from Mesembria and six
half drachms from Kallatis, coming from a supposed hoard discovered by accident
around 1958 in Mangalia (ancient Kallatis) but recovered much later.26 The date
for this latter hoard was proposed as lying in the last quarter of the 4th century BC
or perhaps even the beginning of the 3rd century BC.27
The presence of different denominations in some of these hoards suggests “three
possible distinct periods: a period when the drachms and the so called reduced
drachms existed in parallel; a period when the so-called reduced drachms and diobols
15 IVANOVA 2017: 98-99; KARAYOTOV 1994: 26-27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
16 DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 306-316.
17 IVANOVA 2017: 99-100; KARAYOTOV 1994: 24-27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
18 IGCH, no. 770; KARAYOTOV 1995: 27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 309.
19 KARAYOTOV 1994: 27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
20 DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 312.
21 KARAYOTOV 1994: 27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
22 Ibidem'. 309.
23 VON RENNER 1906: 97-106; MOISIL 1923: 18; IGCH, no. 734.
24 MOISIL 1916: 120; IDEM 1923: 18.
25 VILCU2016.
26 TALMATCHI 2017: 275-305
27 Ibidem'. 294.
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16 diobols from Mesembria);15 General Kantardjievo, Aksakovo municipality,
Varna region (31 diobols Apollonia and 3 5 diobols Mesembria),16 Vratarite, Dobrich
region (66 diobols Apollonia, 66 diobols Mesembria together with an unknown
number of diobols from Istros);17 Kladentzi, Tervel municipality, Dobrich region
(1 diobol from Apollonia and 2 diobols from Mesembria).18 There have also been
a few proposals for their closing dates: Vratarite around 339-335 BC,19 General
Kantardjievo20 around 340-320 BC or better 339 BC, Medovets 320-313 BC21 and
Kladentzi 330-320 BC.22
From Romania, there have been even fewer discoveries of hoards containing
diobols from Apollonia and Mesembria, all of them are in the southern part of
Romanian Dobruja, namely: Ion Corvin (formerly Cuzgun), Mangalia (ancient
Kallatis) in around 1958 and Constanta in 1911 (ancient Tomis), with all of them in
Constanta county. We have limited data about the hoard from Ion Corvin.23 It was
discovered in 1903 (and not 1905, as mistakenly claimed in the almost the whole
numismatic literature);24 apparently it not only includes diobols from Apollonia
Pontica and Mesembria, but also silver coins from Istros, Kallatis and Minor Asia,
the old information concerning the presence in the hoard of some electrum staters
from Cyzicus was recently invalidated following archive research in the National
Museum of Antiquities.25 A few years ago, details were published on one drachm
and three diobols from Apollonia Pontica, four diobols from Mesembria and six
half drachms from Kallatis, coming from a supposed hoard discovered by accident
around 1958 in Mangalia (ancient Kallatis) but recovered much later.26 The date
for this latter hoard was proposed as lying in the last quarter of the 4th century BC
or perhaps even the beginning of the 3rd century BC.27
The presence of different denominations in some of these hoards suggests “three
possible distinct periods: a period when the drachms and the so called reduced
drachms existed in parallel; a period when the so-called reduced drachms and diobols
15 IVANOVA 2017: 98-99; KARAYOTOV 1994: 26-27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
16 DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 306-316.
17 IVANOVA 2017: 99-100; KARAYOTOV 1994: 24-27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
18 IGCH, no. 770; KARAYOTOV 1995: 27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 309.
19 KARAYOTOV 1994: 27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
20 DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 312.
21 KARAYOTOV 1994: 27; DRAGANOV and PAUNOV 2017: 308.
22 Ibidem'. 309.
23 VON RENNER 1906: 97-106; MOISIL 1923: 18; IGCH, no. 734.
24 MOISIL 1916: 120; IDEM 1923: 18.
25 VILCU2016.
26 TALMATCHI 2017: 275-305
27 Ibidem'. 294.
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