Original scientific paper

Toward understanding the earliest circulation of coins in Lika

Nikola Cesarik orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-0687 ; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zavod za povijesne i društvene znanosti u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Vjekoslav Kramberger

Abstract

In this paper the authors analyze 93 pre-Imperial and Roman Imperial coins found at five hillfort settlements in the presentday Lika (Umac in Brinje, Burzina glavica in Deringaj, Gradina in Mazin, Obljaj in Donji lapac and Gradina between Gornji Štrbci and Donji Štrbci near Nebljusi). Predominant among the specimens analyzed here are the pre-Imperial currencies of Numidia and Carthage, but they also include coins from Hellenistic Egypt, Sicilian and South Italic colonies, bronze coins of the Roman Republic, Kingdom of Macedon and one Celtic tetradrachm. There are only nine Roman Imperil coins: one of them was found at Gradina hillforth in Mazin and the remaining eight at Obljaj in Donji Lapac. Documenting these Roman coins is very useful since such finds can indicate the continuity of habitation at some Iapodic hillforts during the Roman rule.

Keywords

Lika; pre-Imperial coins; Numidia; Carthage; Roman coins; Iapodic hillforts; Umac in Brinje; Burzina glavica in Deringaj; Gradina in Mazin; Obljaj in Donji Lapac; Štrbačka gradina near Nebljusi

Hrčak ID:

217417

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/217417

Publication date:

15.2.2019.

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