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

NOTES 1. I should like to thank László Barkóczi here, who was kind enough to give me the opportunity to publish Find. No. VI. I also want to thank him for all the help he gave me in writing this paper, Endre Biró handing me the material of Szőny in the museum of Tata, György Lenhardt, whose collection I could work up, or rather who let me use the catalogue of his collection, Eva Bónis, Sándor Soproni, Mrs. Imre Balogh, who helped me selecting data and coinage from the material of the Archaeological Department. 2. During collectiong the material, we found many references referring to big amounts of Roman coins in Szőny, but the data were of no use. For instance more than a hundred Roman coins were found during the construction of the Ujszőny-Budapest railway /Ar ch. Ért. 6 (l886), 396/, or, that 38 Roman imperial coins came to light from the 2nd to the 4th century A. D. /Arch. Ért. 22 (l9o2), 187/, or "Mrs. László HoIIósy, who has a collection of 4-5 thousand Roman coin collection, gathered from Oszőny and Acs...", then there is a list by emperors with a few numerical data /Arch. Közi. 6 (1866), l6o-l6l/. 3. Ö

dön Kálla

y was a notary in Szőny. He collected archaeological material and coins also, which were found at Szőny /Magyar Muzeum (1946), 5b/. His collection was bought by György Lenhardt during the years of the eraly fifties. The catalogue of the collection has been prepared by Gyula Répássy, in which he mentions, that the collection consists of 2, o37 coins from sites of Szőny. Tivadar Tus

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a owned property in Szőny at the end of the last century, east of the village, between the highway and the Danube. The family collected many antiquities by pillage excavations /Paulovits

, I. : Arch. Ert. (1942), 2l7 /. Part of the archaeological and numismatical material found its way to the Archaelogical Department of the Hungarian National Museum during the 1950s. The 4th century A. D. coin collection was transferred to the Department of Numismatics. László Torda

y donated a continuous 4th century A. D. coin find to the Department of Numismatics, which is from sites of Szőny. He acquired it during the 1930s. 4. The literature refers to certain, several thousand coins from Szőny, or rather from sites close to Komárom, in the Museum of Komárom /Arch. Ért. 35/l9l5/ 341; Alföldi, A. : Der Untergang der Römerherrschaft in Pannonién I. (Berlin-Leipzig, 1924), 42-43. Presently though, unfortunately

, I the coins in the Komárom museum are not identifiable to sites of Szőny. The former Sárközy collection can be found in the Reformed College of Pápa. Sárközy collected ancient coins and antiquities in the area of Oszőny, where he was a large property owner. Thus it is not for certain, that the coins of this collection are solely of sites of Szőny, which disqualifies this collection from inclusion into the catalogue. /Borsos, I. ; Description of the coin collection of the Reformed College of Pápa. I. (Pápa, I9il), 7./ The same paper contains a note "349 Roman coins were acquired from a private collector. He collected them at Oszőny" /Borsos: op. cit. 9). Unfortunately though, the catalogue does not make any distinction for these coins. 5. Gobi, R. : Regalianus and Dryantilia. (Wien, l97o), 14, 1

6. 922; Alföldi, A.

: Blatter f. Münzfreunde, 1923, April 354, further Gobi, R. : op. cit. 2o, 923; Rhode Th. : EZ 25(1893), 425, V. t. 8. 924; Alföldi, A.

: Blatter f. Münzfreunde, 1923, April, 354. 6. Some finds mixed into the Kállay collection, which are here treated and evaluated as scattered coins. /Barkóczi, L. : Brigetio. Diss. Pann. Ser. II, No. 22 (Budapest, 1951), I6.; Radnóti, A.

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