A HOARD FOR CHARON? THE ROMAN IMPERIAL HOARD FROM DESA (DOLJ COUNTY, ROMANIA)

Authors

  • Cristian Anton Gazdac Institute of Archaeology and Art History Cluj-Napoca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v7i1_SI.483

Keywords:

funerary hoard, coin types, Roman Dacia

Abstract

In 1988, 122 silver denarii ranking from Nero to Commodus were confiscated by authorities from a person who was trying to sale these coins illegally at a local market. Following the study of the message on the coin reverse, the comparative analysis, the author suggests a deliberate selection for hoarding of coins that may have had an eschatological meaning for the individual that had assembled the hoard. Such a hypothesis may suggest that this hoard was not intended to have an economic purpose (e.g. savings, emergency hoard) but a funerary/votive one.

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Author Biography

  • Cristian Anton Gazdac, Institute of Archaeology and Art History Cluj-Napoca
    Senior Researcher

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2020-02-03

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A HOARD FOR CHARON? THE ROMAN IMPERIAL HOARD FROM DESA (DOLJ COUNTY, ROMANIA). (2020). JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, 7(1_SI). https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v7i1_SI.483

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