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Movement of coins from Sicily to the sinus Paestanus between the fifth and third centuries BC
No full textXI. Le monete
No full textEdizione e commento delle monete ritrovate negli scavi condotti a Velia dall'Università di Vienn
Elargire moneta tra tarda repubblica e prima età imperiale: ripensando alle coniazioni di Paestum
No full textThe coin donations of the Pompeian euergetes, attested by the inscription on the funerary monument unearthed outside Porta Stabiana, are part of widespread acts in the early imperial age. Less usual (or at least known) is to distribute coins purposely minted by magistrates and/or private individuals in favor of citizens. For this reason, regarding munus et honos, the question of the "euergetic" coinage of semissi minted in Paestum is addressed here. Peculiar aspects of the production and circulation of these small coins, issued in large quantities especially in the final decades of the 1st century BC, suggest that the real function was not only that of a modest sportula given occasionally. Rather, their minting responds to the widespread lack of small change throughout the Italian peninsula. In Paestum the mint activity is provided by local magistrates using public funds, increased by their own, and if necessary perhaps with those of a person like Mineia; in Pompeii there are many small foreign coins or those produced in unofficial mints; also Velia mint a large number of small bronzes. In this context of widespread need for small coins, the production of Paestum coins is motivated: low values to fill the lack of small change in circulation and not just an eccentric and occasional vehicle of popular consensus or political tool to access managerial roles
Reconstructing a museum interior: The Palazzo Reale in Portici
No full textIl contributo presenta il progetto museale realizzato in alcune sale del Piano Nobile del Palazzo Reale borbonico di Portici, destinato a 'comunicare' l'esperienza della visita ai siti vesuviani e al Museum Herculanense da parte dei visitatori del XVIII secolo
Una moneta di Pirro in un gruzzoletto da Montesarchio (BN)
No full textThis paper discusses an unpublished hoard of bronze coins found in a small coarseware olla from Caudium (Montesarchio, province of Benevento), a settlement in the part of the Caudine Valley served by the Appian way. The hoard is composed by 30 coins from different Campanian mints (Neapolis, Cales e Suessa) and a single Pyrrhic coin. The coins from the colonies, (6 from Suessa, 2 from Cales e 1 with an illegible ethnic denomination) are all of the Athena head/Cock type.
This is a small but significant sample of the bronze coinage in circulation in the Caudine Samnium where the arrival of coins from Neapolis and Latin colonies between the Tarantine War and the first Punic war, must have prompted trade based on coin exchange. Such trade was must have been also encourages by the use of coins reproducing types known in the region.
It is not a case that not too far away from Caudium, in the territory later occupied by the Roman Telesia tribe, was located the center of the Caudini Samnites. Numismatists now attribute to this area the production of the rare bronze coin of the Athena/Cock type with the Oscan inscription Tedis (=Teris), a legenda that only recently has been interpreted as a name of a person, and not as an ethnic name.
Furthermore, the presence of the Pyrrhic coin in the hoard offers an important piece of evidence to solve the questions about the origin of the bronze coin series minted in Pyrrhus’ name. Until now there was no definitive data that would prove whether the coins were minted in Sicily, at Locri, or in Epirus, and –in this latter case– before or after Pyrrhus’ expedition to Italy. Strong similarities this bronze series and the coins minted by the Epirote symmachy make us believe that they were produced in Epirus. However, the discovery of this coin in the territory of Benevento, not too far away from the site of the battle between the army of Pyrrhus and the Romans, must mean that the production of these coins happened before the Pyrrhus’ return to Epirus
El imperio leonés - “Cantilena de Santa Eulalia de Mérida”
No full textApuntes sobre las analogías entre la “Cantilena de santa Eulalia de Mérida” y el himno de Prudencio a partir de la referencia bibliográfica: Ebert, M. :“Histoire générale de la littérature du Moyen Âge” traducido por Aymeric y Condamin (1881-1889
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