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FINDS OF HISPANIC COINS FROM THE EASTERN ADRIATIC AND ITS HINTERLAND

During the Late Iron Age money was gradually accepted as a means of payment on the eastern Adriatic coast and its deeper hinterland. However coin types that circulated in this region are not equally represented. Liburnia and neighbouring Iapodea stand out as they are characterized by identical or very similar monetary scheme, particularly in the last three centuries BC. Namely coins from very distant regions circulated in Liburnia and Iapodea, that are exceptionally rarely found in the nearby areas. Mostly these are coins from Carthage and Numidia, and also Ptolemaic coinage. Adequate scientific explanation of this phenomenon has not been provided as yet. In addition to these north African coins, currencies from western Mediterranean also reached Liburnia and Iapodea. These are coins from Hispania, mostly unpublished. The biggest number (19 pieces) originates from the city of Castulo. They were found at ten sites: four in Liburnia and six in Iapodea. Two coins from the city of Obulco were also found in the Iapodean region as well as one specimen from Emporion. Finds of coins from Hispania are very scarce in the region south of Liburnia. Only one example was found in central Dalmatia, in Resnik near Split – a coin from Celsa. Some place on the eastern Adriatic coast, probably Zadar, was a findspot of another Hispanic coin, this time from Segobriga.

Hispanic coins, eastern Adriatic, Liburnia, Iapodea

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