[gothic-l] Re: Trailing the Eruli in the North - solidi

[faltin2001]

Troels,

I came across this reference:

Kyhlberg, O., 'Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi, an archaeological
analysis of coins and hoards', in "Excavations at Helgoe 10,
Stockholm 1986.

Since Kyhlberg is or was professor of archaeolgoy at the University
of Uppsala, he may treat the Scandinavian solidi finds especially
thoroughly and may have interpretations for the arrival of these
coins in Scandinavia.

Dirk








--- In gothic-l at y..., "faltin2001" <dirk at s...> wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at y..., "troels_brandt" <trbrandt at p...> wrote:
> > Dirk,
> > Just one further question.
> > Is there found a significant number of solidi from Constantinopel
> in
> > Poland around Vistula or Oder? What about Ukraine?
> > Troels
>
>
> Troels,
>
> I am not entirely certain about that, but my impression is that
Roman
> gold coins found in Poland or the Ukraine tends to be earlier and
> only in very small numbers. Thus, I know of finds of so called
aurei
> (Roman gold coins) of the 3rd and 4th centuries in these areas, but
I
> am not aware of 5th and 6th century solidi hoards from there. For
the
> Ukraine the matter is similar, but here native people resorted to
> imitating Roman coins on a larger scale. Hence, there is a whole
> corpus of 'barbarised' Roman aurei (and denari) from the Ukraine.
In
> the case of Poland the few coin finds have probably to do with
> Vandals, Goths and Burgundians etc. who served in the Roman army
and
> brought these coins back. In the Ukraine there must have been more
> intensive trade and I suppose that these coins fullfilled a real
> commercial function.
>
> I recently received two articles (one unpublished) by an
> Russian/Ukrainian author A. Sergeev, who wrote about Gothic coins
> from the Taman and north Black Sea area. I have some 30 coins of
this
> series myself, which is otherwise practically unknown in the west.
> Sergeev reiterated earlier findings that state that these coins
> really were made by Goths from 260AD to 360AD. This attribution
seems
> unbelivable, but there really seems to be no other candidate as
> originator of this coinage and all the evidence points to the
Goths.
> If that was really true it would change our understanding of the
> Goths and Gothic life in that area quite a bit, because these are
low
> value coins intended from small short distance trade directed
towards
> the north Caucasus.
>
>
> Dirk








>
> PS  I can write/talk about coins for hours


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