BÍRÓ-SEY KATALIN: COINS FROM IDENTIFIED SITES OF BRIGETIO AND THE QUESTION OF LOCAL CURRENCY / Régészeti Füzetek II/18. (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Budapest, 1977)
I. INTRODUCTION
The hidden hoards, like those of Lupoglav, Szőkedencs, Vienna-Krottenbach, and Öregesem reflect the direction of the southern Quad-Sarmathian offensive of 374 A. D. and the difficult times following the death of Valentinian. 7 ^ There is an unpublished find from Brigetio too, which must have been hidden at this time or shortly before. 7 7 (Find. No. VII, Fig. XII) There are a few dupondii from the 2d and 3rd centuries A. D. (I42/I-3) and a few antoniniani (142/4-15) in the find, but foilis appear more regularly only from Licinius (l43/l7-2l). The graph of the find shows a continuous amount of coins only from 33o A. D. to the closing date. The foilis of Constantine the Great, and his sons occur increasingly in the find, until the beginning of the years 34o A. D. A slight decrease shows then, and at the end of the decade also, the same way as with the scattered coins (Fig XIV) and with the No. VI. Find (Fig. XI). The highest values of a yearly average of 2o can be seen during the second part of the years 35o A. D. , under the rule of Constantius II. Another high value can be seen under Valentinian and Valens separately and then during the period of their mutual rule with Gratian. The values shown after 375 A. D. are composed of not precisely identifiable coins, but the closing date ot the find can be set for an earlier date. Its closing series are given by centenionalis of Valentinian (147/384) GLORIA ROMANORVM BSISC Q O/R / and Valens (148/425) SECVRITAS REIPVLICAE ASISC K/ * Q. According to the relative chronology of Pearce these are much earlier than the latest marks of the period, 367-375 A. D. According to the improved chronology of Siscia, their production can be dated to 372 A. D. This is an earlier date than the closing mint marks of the other finds. s In the finds mentioned, the closing series bears an . mark. According to Pearce's chronology these were struck at the end of the second period. The closing coins of the Jabling-find are two GLORIA type coins of Valentinian with a mark F k/R , and a SECVRITAS type centenionalis of Valens. According to the improved Siscian chronology these must have been struck in 371 A. D. The No. VII Find of Brigetio must have got underground long before this if its coins were struck in 372 A. D. The ones ending with the ? series must not have been struck before 375 A. D. and they must have got underground after the death of Valentinian. 7^ The items of the find are in such bad condition, that the mint marks of the centenionalis could have only been read in a few case. The division according to mints is the following: Treveri 1, Lugdunum 2, Arelate 3, Rome 1 2, Aquileia 16, Siscia 11 9 , Sirmium 5, Thessaloniki lo, Herarclea 5, Constantinople 14, Nikomedia 5, Kyzikos 3. The coinage from eastern mints represent a majority over those from western mints. We noticed during the period of 364 to 375 A. D. in the scattered material, that whereas there were lo coins for the year 37o A. D. from Valentinian (78/1961-1974) there was only one SECURITAS type coin of the Siscian mint (78/1975) */R/ Q M/from the year 371 A. D. , his next coin is of 375 A. D. , a GLORIA type (78/1976) . /S fc/ R centenionalis. Valens has three SECVRITAS type coins from 37o A. D. (79/2io4-2lo6) p/ ^ m and PA M/ . After this there is only another SECVRITAS (79/2lo7) k/R . / S centenionalis from 375 A. D. and a GLORIA type with P/D F mark from the same year. Gratian has Siscian coins only from the years 378 to 383 A. D. From the scattered material it seems that no Siscian coin came to Brigetio between 372 and 374 A. D. or may only be in such low numbers that it did not get reflected among the scattered coins. 15
