A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1966-1967 (Debrecen, 1968)

Soproni Sándor: Valentinianuskori éremlelet Hajdúnánás–Tedejről

Sándor Soproni The Hajdúnánás-Tedej medal find from the period of Valentinian us A late-Roman bronze-medal find was uncovered in the territory of the Barbaricum, at Tedejpuszta in the Hajdúnánás area (County Hajdú-Bihar) in 1965. The find, containing 705 centenionales, was hidden in an iron vessel, and several iron tools were found beneath and over the vessel. The treasure was obtained by the Déri Museum of Debrecen. Round the site of the find we succeeded in excavating an extensive late-Sarmatian (second half of the 4th century) human settlement. The earliest pieces of the find are from the reign of Emperor Constantius II

; the bulk is composed of centenionales minted for Emperor Valentinianus I and his co-emperors. The find is distributed by rulers as follows: Constantius II 41 Constantius Gallus 2 Iulianus 13 undefinable, between 346 and 361 8 Valentinianus I 250 Valens 314 Procopius 2 Gratianus 52 undefinable, between 364 and 375 20 medals of the 4th century, fully worn away 3 Total 705 pieces The most recent pieces of the Tedej find are from the reign of Valentinianus I. Apart from one mint of the City of Rome (Table I, fig. 1), which we place to the period preceding the death of Valentinianus I, the latest pieces of the find are those among the pieces of Siscia, belonging to the RIC XXXIII series, the mints of Valentinianus and Valens (Table I, fig. 2-3). Based on the chronology of the Siscia mint, recently laid down by V. Lányi, this emission is assigned to 374 by researchers. Concerning the hiding of the find, the year 374 must be accepted as terminus post quem. Hiding of the find can be brought into connection with the invasion of the Huns and the migrations after the battle of Hadrianopolis. There are some mintages in the find which do not figure in RIC (Table I, fig. 4-5), and the so far known officina pattern of the Siscia mint is also somewhat modified by the new find (Table The composition of the Tedej find is more or less identical with that of Pannonian medal finds of similar age

: pieces of the Siscia mint are represented in the largest numbers in the coins of Valentinianus' period, followed by those of the Aquileia, Thessalonica and City of Rome mints. (Fig. 1.) We know of another find in the territory of the Barbaricum, from Ocsőd village

; it is more or less from the same age, but was hidden some years after the find of Tedej. Studying the two finds on the basis of the new chronology of the Siscia mint, it appears that in relation to the years from 364 to 375 the finds reflect a similar circulation of money (Fig. 2-3). The same can be concluded if we compare the two finds of the Barbaricum with finds of comparable age uncovered in the regions of the Pannonian limes. 117