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La pubblicazione delle monete greche: storia, metodologie, problemi, prospettive
No full textThis article focuses on the problems concerning the publication of Greek ancient coins from the 19th century until now
Vita di un santuario attraverso le monete: i rinvenimenti numismatici da Pietrabbondante
No full textThe publication of a large collection of ancient coins found at the Pietrabbondante sanctuary provides an opportunity to explore multiple aspects of monetary history, both locally and broadly. It also highlights new issues, allows for the verification of research findings that have been taken for granted, and that remain open to potential revisions or adjustments
Osservazioni sulla rappresentatività dei ritrovamenti monetari da centri urbani antichi
No full textCoins found in urban archaeological sites occupy a special place among categories of coin finds; they can undoubtedly represent a valuable source of information for our knowledge of not only monetary circulation but also general economic and social life in ancient Greek or Roman cities, yet it is often not easy to measure the representativeness of a coin sample known for a single site. Case studies concerning the comparison between two (or more) groups of coins found in the same site at different times show that it is sometimes possible to detect significant differences in the structure of these distinct finds. For this reason it seems necessary to be very cautious in studying such coin finds, even if relatively large in number, as a single safely representative sample of the currency present in a certain site
Ritrovamenti numismatici: alcune osservazioni
No full textI ritrovamenti monetali provenienti dal sito presso Punta Secca, identificato con il centro di Kaukana, permettono di ricostruire diversi aspetti della vita dell'insediamento, che appare aver conosciuto una intensa circolazione monetaria tra il IV e il IX secolo d.C., scandita in due fasi distinte
Trasformazioni delle monetazioni indigene prima e dopo la conquista romana: nuovi ruoli e nuovi significati
No full textIn the contribution, it is explained how the non-Roman coinages of certain European
territories, starting from the 2nd century BC, developed in a way that allowed them to integrate, either directly or indirectly, with the Roman Republican coinage. This
phenomenon can be explained not only as a consequence of Rome's economic and political influence, but also as an effect of the ability of indigenous communities to exploit the situation to their advantage
Nuove osservazioni sulla circolazione monetaria a Camarina nel II e I secolo a.C.
No full textA re-examination of the coins found during archeological excavations in the Agora of Camarina, both those already published in 2004 (Lucchelli 2004 et alii) and a small group of pieces kept in the Museo Archeologico Regionale of Syracuse studied in 2019, has led to a partially different reading of the monetary history of this ancient Greek colony in the period after the Second Punic War.
In 2004 it was suggested that the monetary circulation at Camarina during the 2nd century BC remained intense until after the middle of this century, but now, considering that the chronology of a number of coinages traditionally dated to 2nd century BC is quite unclear, but that in many cases these coinages probably belong rather to the last years of the 3rd (Carroccio 2004; Puglisi 2009), it seems better to interpret the available evidence in a different way.
Actually, the number of coins found at Camarina that can be assigned with a sufficient degree of certainty to the 2nd century is remarkably low, that is 11 Roman Republican coins (as well as other 14 Roman coins that are so poorly preserved that an identification is impossible and that therefore could be partly, but not necessarily dated to this period) and about thirty coins of Italian (i.e. Rhegium) or Sicilian cities (they are above all issues of Syracuse), out of a total of 1073 coins.
If it is relatively easy to ascertain the quantity of coins produced in the 2nd century among the coin finds at Camarina, much more difficult it is to estimate how many coins of the 3rd century were still available in the circulation during the following century. Unfortunately the peculiar archaeological situation of the Agora of Camarina doesn’t allow to get a clear idea of the association of coins found on this site (anyway, there is no evidence of any 2nd century coin deposit).
The comparison with the situation in other ancient centres of Sicily (e.g. Morgantina or Monte Iato; Buttery 1989 et alii; Frey-Kupper 2013) and with the few hoards that have been reliably studied shows that quite a lot of 3rd century coins could be potentially available after the Second Punic War in Sicily, but, all considered, one should conclude that it seems rather improbable that a great number of “old” coins survived for many decades at Camarina in the 2nd century, in a context where the inflow of new coins was extremely limited.
In conclusion, it seems that the end of the Second Punic War marked a decisive change in the monetary history of Camarina and that afterwards the city was rapidely marginalized in respect to the general coin circulation of the Roman Sicily
Novità dalle collezioni numismatiche torinesi
No full textSi presentano criticamente i contributi del volume "Musei reali Torino. Le collezioni numismatiche
Per una storia (monetaria) della Lidia ellenistica e romana
No full textPrendendo spunto da un volume recentemente pubblicato (P.-O. Hochard, Lydie, terre d’Empire(s). Etude de numismatique et d’histoire (228 a.C.-268 p.C.), si discutono diversi aspetti della monetazione della Lida in epoca ellenistica e romana e le metodologie applicate per lo studio di monetazioni antiche su scala regionale e sul lungo periodo
Recensione a A. Mayr, Die Medaillen und Schaumu ̈nzen der Kaiser und Ko ̈nige aus dem Haus Habsburg im Mu ̈nzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, Band XI: Ferdinand I. (1793-1875, reg. 1835-1848), Wien 2023
No full textReview of Die Medaillen und Schaumu ̈nzen der Kaiser und Ko ̈nige aus dem Haus Habsburg im
Mu ̈nzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien, Band XI: Ferdinand I. (1793-1875,
reg. 1835-1848), 2 voll., Verlag der o ̈sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2023, 552 pp.; ISBN 978370019314
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