| Abstrakt: |
The mobile heritage protection activities carried out by the state made possible the study of various archaeological and numismatic artefacts. Then, as a result of some works carried out since the 60s- 70s of the last century within the Romanian popular and then socialist state (building works, land improvement works, etc.), some archaeological and monetary discoveries have turned into "souvenirs", being shared between the discoverers. These situations gave us the opportunity by chance to recover some sequences regarding the history of monetary signs in the West-Pontic area. Shaping the overall picture for the discoveries in the Dobrudjan space also made us turn to older discoveries that, for subjective and objective reasons, did not reach the attention of the profile research. Thus, to a lesser extent, some discoveries are published that were part of numismatic collections in Constanța, today dispersed, accumulated during the 90s. In total, following all these accumulated sources, of interest for the present article, more than 650 specimens of West-Pontic monetary signs are considered from discoveries that come from the western and southwestern area of the Istro-Pontic space, of which only about 100 specimens have been preserved. In total, in the new discoveries are to be recorded 13 hoards that are discovered Floriile ("Adâncata" point - 1), Canlia (3), Gârlița, Izvoarele (3), Lipnița, Ostrov, Strunga (2) and Viile. The discovery sites of all these monetary signs seem to correspond, in general, to centers and necropolises known as pre-Roman period, known in the specialized bibliography, of greater or lesser extent. They draw attention to the early relations developed by the Greeks with important centers that correspond to the early history of the peripheral autochthonous communities of Dobrudja, even if we cannot corroborate the numismatic document with the archaeological one of the context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
