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
There are some more 4th century imitations among the unidentifiable group (lo5 /3oo-3o9) two VICTORIAELAETAE PRINC PERP (Io5/3o2-3o3), and one VIRTVS EXERCIT VS (loó/ 3o4) types. Imitations were struck in different variations concerning their material. 1. Denarius, or antoninianus imitations a. bronze b. potin c. subaeratus 2. Bionze coins in bronze In the treatment of the currency of Aquincum and Intercisa, there was no mention of the contemporary imitations. A large number of them in bronze appear in Carnuntum at the beginning of the 3rd century A. D.^ 7 CEMETERIES, GRAVES, GRAVE-GROUPS No great importance can be attached to the material from cemeteries as far as currency is concerned. The same general considerations are true for this material as for the scattered coins. Very few coins were found in graves for the first part of the 1st century A. D. , and after 375 A. D. There is a single coin (AE4) of Theodosius I from grave-field I, grave 14 from this latter period. Coins from graves are not dependable for dating. The denarii of the 1st century to the 3rd century A. D. were in use for a long time. This is evident in the hoards, where there are some 2oo-3oc. old worn denarii. This points to the fact, that they must have put old coins into their graves instead of current ones. The coinage of cemeteries will be treated according the topography of the cemeteries. The earliest coin from the skeleton grave 44 of the Gerhát cemetery 8 8 is an as of Domitian (HI /l2), and the jätest is from the skeleton grave 26, which is a Philip I dupondius ( lio/8). The coins of this cemetery from cremation graves do not show such a great time lag. These are coins from Hadrian to Alexander Severus ( ill/l6, 23 and 23,24). 89 Grave field I is one of the latest cemeteries of Szőny. Although there is an antoninianus of Claudius II in grave 2 (112/25), otherwise the coins of the graves are from the 4th century A. D. , starting with Crispus (112/34 to Theodosius I (il2/32). Grave field I I is also a late cemetery, except for the antoninianus of Claudius II (il2 / 39), there are only coins of the 4th century A. D. Grave I contained coins of Claudius II and Valentinian together. 91 The coins of grave field I V date to the end of the 3rd century and to the first decades of the 4th century A. D. The earliest is the dupondius of Viminacium of Trebonianus Gallus (grave 3o/ll3 /55) and the foiiis of Licinius (grave 21/ 113/53) is the latest. The collected coin find s of highly diverse dates from graves (cemetery?) indicate, that these graves did not compose a cemetery unit. The earliest is an as of Tiberius (grave 72/115/92), and the latest an VRBS ROMA coin (grave F/ 115/9i). 9 2~ Only two graves of the Caecili a cemetery^ contained coins. One was of Augustus (115/93), the other of Hadrian ( 115/94). 18
