Folia archeologica 25.
Katalin Bíró-Sey: A find of centenionales from Brigetio
148 К. BÍRÓ-SEY These mint-marks are, according to the relative chronology of Pearce, considerably earlier 3 as the last marks of the period (367—375). 4 According to the refined chronology of Siscian mint-marks 5 their minting is to be dated to the year 372. In the period mentioned a greater amount of money penetrated into the province, resp. to the limes, where fortresses were built, resp. rebuilt, which meant considerable expenses. 6 Excavations at Brigetio show only a minor building activity on the territory of the Castrum during the times of Valentinian; 7 in spite of this fact we have two coin hoards of this period from this town, one of them being the present one, the other coming from the Tussla Collection to the Numismatic Section of the Hungarian National Museum. 8 The two finds close, however, at different times; that of the Tussla Collection survives the times of Valentinian. The mints of Theodosius I, Arcadius and Honorius give the date of the closing. The period in which the Castrum was built, is represented here by rich series as well. The find published here closes earlier than the Valentinian-age hoards hitherto known. The direction of the Quad-Sarmatian impact of the year 374, coming from the south, and later the turbulences following the death of Valentinian, are reflected in the hidden hoards, as the finds of Lupoglav, Szőkedencs, Jabing, WienKrottenbach and Öregesem. 9 As for their closing, the nearest to our find is that Д of Jabing, closed by the mints of Valentinian ^ p SISCS and of Valens ASISC . . . ^ p struck in 374. The closing of the Brigetio find is previous to this one. Neither excavations, nor historic sources give any clues for an event explaining the hiding of the find in the year 372. 1 0 3 Pearce, J. W. E., The Roman Imperial Coinage IX. (London 1951) 140—144. In the following: RIX IX. D 4 RIC IX. 144. p p is even earlier than the Jabing found. Barb, A., Der Münzfund von Jabing. NZ 29(1936) 61. 5 Lányi, V., Acta Arch. Hung. 21(1969) 33. 6 Soproni, S., FA 20(1969) 72. 7 Barkóczi, L., Brigetio. DissPann 11:22. (Bp. 1951) 16. 8 The find contained 3522 coins, in their bulk AE-s of the 4th century. Its closing is determined by the issues of Theodosius I, Arcadius and Honorius. The find is not published but was analyzed in the thesis of Katalin Bíró—Sey, entitled „The coins of Brigetio from find places known, and the problems of the monetary circulation of the town". (Bp. 1972) 204. 9 Lupoglav: Brnnsmid, J., Nekoliko nasasca novaca na skupu u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji. VHAD 12(1912) 284.; Szőkedencs: R. Alföldi, M., AntH 3(1949) 86.; Jabing: Barb, A., op. cit. 61.; Wien-Krottenbach: Polascbek, E., Zwei römische Münzschätze aus Wien. NZ 58(1925) 127.; öregcsém: Radnóti, A., NK 41(1942) И. 1 0 It is possible that the burying of the hoard is to be brought in connection with the transferring of a Pannonian unit to Africa against the revolt of the year 373. Nagy, T., Budapest
