SZ. BURGER ALICE: LATE ROMAN MONEY CIRCULATION IN SOUTH-PANNONIA / Régészeti Füzetek II/22. (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Budapest, 1981

1. PHASE A

1/b. CONST ANT INE I (Caesars Cons tan tine- Constantius-Constans) FROM A.D. 330 TO 335. In the years between 330 and 335 the Emperor repulsed the Goths raiding the Banat and in 334 he defeated the Sarmatians. In 335 the Vandals, who ultimately suffered defeat from the Goths, settled down in Pannónia. In this period the Emperor was already strongly preoccupied with the idea of succession. He nominated his sons Caesars already in their childhood, his nephew, Dalmatius to be Consul in 333 and declared him Caesar in 335 to rule over the territory of the Balkans. In 335 he had Licinius junior murdered and in the same year he divided his Empire among his three sons. Constantinopolis was solemnly inaugurated on 11 May, 330. From then onwards the new mint of the city had a considerable share in the production of bronze coins. The reverse types of the earlier period were stopped. From 330 onwards only the Nr. (l~2) variant of the type GLORIA EXERCITUS was in circulation both for the Emperor as well as for the Caesars and this was produced by all the mints; for the first time the coins URBS ROMA and CONSTANTINOPOLI/S appeared. The coins of Constantine I were mainly produced by the eastern mints, whereas those of the Caesars came from various mints. The mint AQU started to work only in 334 issuing bronze coins for Constantine I and Constantius, whereas the coins of Constans Caesar were chiefly struck by CYZ, among the coins of Constantine Caesar even ARE can be traced. From 330 onwards a definite increase in the quantity can be shown and the number of sites also grows. Such sites are Árpás, Márok, Zsófia-manor and Márok besides Mernye; the settlements Sopianae and Tricciana; and besides the cemeteries already mentioned, such coins can be found in the material of the cemeteries of Sopianae and in the smaller ones of Baranya county. 29