AN IMITATION (FOURRÉE) OF ROMAN REPUBLICAN DENARIUS SERRATUS FROM THE «L-1» EXCAVATION AREA IN OLBIA PONTICA (UKRAINE)
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https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v8i2.614Keywords:
Olbia Pontica, Upper City, Citadel, Northern Black Sea region, 1st century BC, imitations of Roman Republican denarii, ancient counterfeits, coin forgeries, plated coins, fourrée serrati, coin imitations, Geto-Dacian coin minting, BurebistaAbstract
A paper is devoted to a publication of a rare for a Northern Black Sea region find – a half of an imitation of a Roman Republican denarius serratus revealed in Olbia Pontica in 2003 in cultural strata during the excavations of the «L-1» area, a Central part of a Citadel on the plateau the Upper City. The item supposed to be a barbarian imitation of Roman denarius serratus of 81 BC of a Geto-Dacian minting. The coin find in Olbia, most likely, is connected with the historical events, described by Dio Chrysostom, about the Getae attack on the polis that took place c. the mid-1st century BC.
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- Fig. 1. Map of Burebista state, 60-44 BC.
- Fig. 2. 1. Plan of Olbia Pontica, by S. D. Kryzhytskyi, O. V. Kariaka (KRYZHYTSKYI/KARIAKA 2017, fig. 7) with a position of «L-1» excavation area, the south part of an Upper City. 2. Olbia Pontica Citadel of the Roman period and its borders in the 1st - f
- Fig. 3. «L-1» excavation area, by V. V. Krapivina (KRAPIVINA 2014, fig. 179).
- Fig. 4. «L-1», excavations 2003. ? pavement in opus spicatum technique, constructed of roof tiles, bordering with a premise where the fourrée was found, by V. V. Krapivina (KRAPIVINA 2014, fig. 10).
- Fig. 5. Fragment of copper silvered imitation of Roman Republican denarius, Olbia, ?-2003/?-1/95, Scientific Funds of the Insitute of Arhaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
- Fig. 6. Roman Republican denarius of A. Postumius A. f. Sp. n. Albinus of 81 BC, Crawford 372/2.
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