BÍRÓ-SEY KATALIN: COINS FROM IDENTIFIED SITES OF BRIGETIO AND THE QUESTION OF LOCAL CURRENCY / Régészeti Füzetek II/18. (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Budapest, 1977)
II. INTRODUCTION TO THE CATALOGUE
II. INTRODUCTION TO THE CATALOGUE This second, catalogue part, lists the coins of identified sites of Szőny (Brigetio). It will include the previously published and the up to now unpublished coins. The material was compiled from the archaeological literature, from the inventory-books, and the coin collections of different Transdanubian museums. It also includes the material of a considerable private collection, under protection of the Ancient Monuments Act, which was previously owned by Ödön Kállay, and now by György Lenhardt. Last but not least it includes the coinage of Szőny in the Archaeological and Numismatic Departments of the Hungarian National Museum. 7, 84o coins were treated from the ones listed. 4, 938 of these come from coin hoards, 294 from graves, partially from connectig cemeteries. The rest are scattered coins, coins from excavations were merged into these too. Wherevere possible we noted the precise sites of the coins. The catalogue was compiled according to the following system. The coins were sorted into three groups in the following order: Scattered coin s include coins from excavations, and not from excavations, contemporary fakes, furthermore medailons, which are not truly scattered items, but cannot be included into the framework of regular currency. Coins from grave s include coins from graves of cemetery units, between graves, grave groups, and individual graves. The medailons from graves are here also. Find s include hoards. Eight hoards were treated in this paper (Find. No. I-VIII), three of these yet unpublished. These yet unpublished hoards are the find from the Tussla collection (Find. No. VIII), the Torday find (Find. No. VII), and the find handed over to the Numismatic Department by László Barkóczi (Find. No. VI). Within each group the numbering of the subgroups (scattered coins, contemporary imitations, medailons) starts with I, which serial number then indicates the number of items as well. The notes, which include remarks, closer sites, names of collections, museums, invertory, or catalogue numbers, and bibliography follow each material group and bear the same number as the referred item. The system of the listing of scattered coins follows the emperors, and within the groups by emperors we established a chronological order regardless of their material. Hoards were arranged the same way. Exception to this tule was applied for the coins from cemeteries, where the grouping was done by graves and not chronologically. MAIN ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEM 1. By emperor a. emperor's name b. caesar's name c. woman's (wife, sister, etc.) name within groups a. , b. , and c. there could be some chronological overlaps or rather agreements. 2. Chronological order within the above groups 3. Within groups I., and 2. subjected to chronology, by mints, moving from west to east. The listing within one item follows the system below: 35
