Folia archeologica 49-50.

Farkas Edit: Az eleki éremlelet. Numizmatikai adatok a barbarikum 3. sz. elejének történetéhez

THE ELEK COIN HOARD NUMISMATIC DATA TO THE HISTORY OF THE BARBARICUM IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 3RD CENTURY A. D. The collection and revision of numismatic evidence is an important element in the study of the land inhabited by the Sarmatian people. The Elek hoard find belongs to the horizon hidden into the ground on Barbarian territory at the beginning of the 3rd century. The hoard found in 1939 comprised 47 Roman denarii. 9 of them are preserved in the Numismatic Collection of the Hungarian National Museum. Almost half of the hoard finds known from the Barbaricum were hidden during the reign of the Severus dynasty (the hoards from Csurog, Tyúkod, Hetényegyháza, Mende, Miskolc and Tiszaföldvár were all closed by coins between 189 and 193). The closing coin of the Elek find was issued by Didius Iulianus in 193. The Elek hoard find is similar to the others not only in the closing coin piece but also in its general composition. The bulk of the find assemblage is formed by denarii of the 2nd century, mainly coins of Antonius Pius and Marcus Aurelius. The frequency of coins by rulers agrees well with the same value of scattered finds in the Barbaricum. The exact period of hiding these hoards is still debated, but it can be supposed that they were already buried by the 20-ies of the 3rd century. By the end of the 2nd century, new groups of Sarmatian people entered the Carpathian Basin. Probably the hoard finds dated to this period are the numismatic proofs of their spreading on the Alföld region. Edit Farkas Translated by Katalin T. Bíró