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Aquileia e il Danubio: il dato numismatico
Aquileia and the Danube: the numismatic evidence
Stella, Andrea
2018
Abstract
The present study represents a first survey of the numismatic evidence attesting the connections between Aquileia and the Danubian area during the Roman age. Starting from the foundation of the Latin colony, the early commercial ties and the presence of detachments of military units garrisoned along the Danube have fostered the penetration of currency proper to the Danubian limes, in some cases, in significant number. With the exception of the casual presence of Celtic currency during the late Republican age, the most significant documentation belongs to the Imperial period, with particular concentrations durign the reign of Augustus (countermarked and halved coins) and the 3rd century (limes falsa, copper-coated coins, provincial issues). In the late Roman period, the contribution of the currency from the Balkans is represented by the growing influx over time of the output of the mint of Siscia, and in part of the eastern ones (Thessalonica), of which Aquileia was a redistribution centre towards the western part of the Empire.
Il presente studio costituisce una prima ricognizione delle evidenze numismatiche che attestano i rapporti tra Aquileia e l’area danubiana in età romana. Sin dalla fondazione della colonia latina, i precoci rapporti di natura economica e la presenza di distaccamenti di reparti militari stanziati lungo il Danubio hanno favorito la penetrazione di numerario tipico dell’area del limes danubiano in numero, in alcuni casi, significativo. Salvo un’occasionale presenza di numerario celtico in età tardo repubblicana, la documentazione più significativa spetta all’età imperiale concentrandosi in età augustea (monete contromarcate e intenzionalmente spezzate) e nel corso del III secolo (limes falsa, monete subferrate, emissioni provinciali). Nel corso dell’età tardoromana, l’apporto di numerario balcanico si esplica attraverso l’influsso, crescente nel corso del tempo, delle emissioni della zecca di Siscia, e in parte di quelle orientali (Tessalonica), delle quali Aquileia ha costituito un centro di ridistribuzione verso i territori più occidentali dell’Impero.
The present study represents a first survey of the numismatic evidence attesting the connections between Aquileia and the Danubian area during the Roman age. Starting from the foundation of the Latin colony, the early commercial ties and the presence of detachments of military units garrisoned along the Danube have fostered the penetration of currency proper to the Danubian limes, in some cases, in significant number. With the exception of the casual presence of Celtic currency during the late Republican age, the most significant documentation belongs to the Imperial period, with particular concentrations durign the reign of Augustus (countermarked and halved coins) and the 3rd century (limes falsa, copper-coated coins, provincial issues). In the late Roman period, the contribution of the currency from the Balkans is represented by the growing influx over time of the output of the mint of Siscia, and in part of the eastern ones (Thessalonica), of which Aquileia was a redistribution centre towards the western part of the Empire.
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Andrea Stella, ''Aquileia e il Danubio: il dato numismatico", in: ''Aquileia Nostra'', 89 (2018), pp. 125-147
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it
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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