Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 28. (2006)
Arheologie
О MONEDÄ ROMANÄ REPUBLICANÄ DESCOPERITÄ LA TU§INU, SÄNPETRU DE CÄMPIE (JUD. MURE§) DANIEL CIOATÄ A Roman Republican Coin found at Tu§inu (Sänpetru de Cämpie, Mure§ County) (Abstract) The coin was discovered in the territory of Tu§inu village by a local, during the agriculture works. It has been unfortunately perforated and used as a medallion. As far as the archaeological repertory of the area is concerned, there are very few discoveries from this period and there have’t been noticed any traces of a Dacian settlement. Though, a Roman Republican denarius was found in Sänpetru de Cämpie. The coin is of 504 Sydenham type, baring the name of C. Caius Longinus on the obverse, thus being issued in 110-109 В. C. The coin that has recently come to our attention, is a Roman Republican denarius, issued in 83 B.C., by Caius Norbanus, consul at that time, having on the obverse the head of Venus, wearing a diadem, turned left, a value mark (CLVIII) and the legend, with the name of the consul (C Norbanus) on the lower part. On the reverse, the following elements appear, from the left: the corn ear, the fasces and the caduceum. We can thus conclude that the message that both the obverse and the especially reverse of the coin symbolized the idea of harmony and social - political stability doubled by an economical development. C. Norbanus, an important political personality of the Roman governmental system from the turn of the 2nd-1st centuries B.C., reached the peak of his career having the functions of tribunus (103 B.C.), quaestor (around 99 B.C.), and consul in 83 B.C. His career tvas violently interrupted, as he became an enemy of Sulla because of whom he fled to Rhodos, where he was not able to find the necessary support and eventually he put an end to his days in the year 82 В. C The time segment of the use of this coin in this area could have been long, if we consider the preference of the Dacians for the Roman Republican denarii, which have massively pierced into the north-Danube economic market during the reign of Burebista and remained the basic means of commercial exchange for a century and a half. Deprived of any other elements of dating for the discovery place and reminding once more the year of its issuance (83 B. C.), we find it very probable that the first half of the 1st century B.C. corresponded with the actual circulation of this coin. The historical and economical context favored the spread of this type of coins as far as these territories, as mentioned above. Moreover, it is the moment in which the local mint ceased to function and the Roman coins became largely used, having a better quality and wider circulation, paralleled by the social, political and implicitly the economical transformations that came together with the rise of Burebista’s kingdom. Even if an isolated discovery, this coin marks another point on the list of Dacian epoch discoveries comprising so far 82 localities from this district, contributing to the general image of the area and that particular period as well, giving a moral and scientific impulse for a systematical research that can bring further evidence. Translated by Coralia Cri§an Descoperitä Tn satui Tu§inu, comuna Sänpetru de Cämpie, de cätre un localnic, moneda a fost din päcate perforatä §i utilizatä drept medalion1. Din ceea 1 Multumim pe acestä cale colegului de la Universitatea Petru Maior, Fábián István, care a recuperat moneda §i a fäcut posibilä publicarea ei. 61
