Post Medieval Numismatics

A obra contempla a coleção de Numismática do Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro (MNMC) e outras peças monetiformes, composta por 1286 exemplares, maioritariamente recuperados neste espaço histórico da cidade de Coimbra. Reúnem-se igualmente peças recolhidas noutros pontos da cidade ou em intervenções pontuais realizadas noutros monumentos nacionais e fruto de doações e aquisições.
A monografia é composta por cinco núcleos principais que se organizam cronologicamente: moedas romanas; moedas medievais; moedas portuguesas; moedas estrangeiras e objetos monetiformes.
Com prefácio do Prof. Jorge de Alarcão, o livro encontra-se profusamente ilustrado e enriquecido por diversos textos interpretativos que melhor exploram e enquadram a listagem individual que se apresenta em formato de catálogo.

This book covers the Numismatics collection of the Machado de Castro National Museum (MNMC) and other monetary items, consisting of 1286 specimens, mostly recovered in this historic place in the city of Coimbra. It also includes pieces collected in other parts of the city or in occasional interventions carried out in other national monuments, and the result of donations and acquisitions.
The monograph is composed of five main areas chronologically organised: Roman coins; medieval coins; Portuguese coins; foreign coins and monetary objects.
With a preface by Prof. Jorge de Alarcão, the book is profusely illustrated and enriched by several interpretative texts that better explore and frame the individual listing presented in catalogue format.

In 2012-2013, during the archaeological research conducted in the city of Roman (Neamț county), the "At the Library" spot, 42 coins were found. Of these, 26 pieces came from the archaeological layer, while the other 16 pieces were discovered in closed complexes (two workshops). In this paper we present the 26 coins found in the archaeological layer. These are represented by issuings of the rulers of Moldova (3 ex), an imitation after a Venetian ducat, probably realized in a Genoese colony on the Black Sea coast (1 ex.), original and copied Ottoman aspers (3 ex.), Polish coins minted for the Crown (1 ex.) and Lithuania (1 ex.), Austrian coin minted for Hungary (1 ex.), Swedish coins (2 ex.), "war money" from the mint of Sadagura (2 ex.), modern Austrian coins (3 ex.), various small denominations from the time of Carol I (8 ex.) and a chip originating in the German space (Cat. no. 26). The monetary finds discovered in the dwelling levels of the city of Roman during the archaeological research held in the years 2012-2013 reflect an intense social and economic life of this borough in the medieval and modern times, coupled with the continuity in the hearth of the same city.

The archaeological intervention of a preventive nature carried out at the site of San Martín de Dulantzi (Alegría-Dulantzi, Álava) brought an unexpected stratigraphic sequence, especially on the each less darks centuries of Late Antiquity. However, despite the important extension of land intervened, about 800 m2, only recovered a total of ten coins. This low density of findings contrasts vividly with the abundant representation of other kinds of material evidence at the site. Although, behind this lack of testimonies coins, hides a complex sequence of occupation developed into a space of use preferably religious and/or funeral, where prevail those historical periods of limited or almost non-existent monetary circulation, including between the V and XII centuries.

The coins, without being the most significant archaeological material from a quantitative or qualitative point of view, however, show the apparent contradiction between the numismatic evidence and the archaeological record. And we say apparent because, as we will have opportunity to see over the next lines, absences, in certain cases, can provide information as valuable as those offered by own presences. Within the small cast of pieces found at the site, stand out for their uniqueness exemplary shakes by the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 11th century and a rare issue attributed to the Navarrese King Sancho VI the Wise (1150-1194).

La intervención arqueológica llevada a cabo en las calles Nuestra Señora de Ayala y San Martín, ubicadas en la villa alavesa de Alegría-Dulantzi, ha deparado una inesperada secuencia estratigráfica, especialmente del cada vez menos oscuro periodo tardoantiguo. Las monedas, sin llegar a ser los materiales arqueológicos más significativos desde el punto de vista cuantitativo o cualitativo, arrojan interesantes informaciones relativas a las primeras emisiones monetarias de los reinos cristianos peninsulares a finales del siglo XI.

The fieldwork of the Santa Ana College northern sector, has provided indicators of the beginning of the medieval settlement in the southwest area of Alcala de Henares (Madrid). The digging works has registered an initial occupational phase at the end of the thirteenth century, and paulatine urban densification
in the second half of the fifteenth century. The data retrieved through the ceramic material culture, shows the activities of local pottery production and the arrival of the Maiolica contexts.

The Hoard of Medieval Coins from the Village Stizhok. In the spring of 2011, a clay pot was found in a field nearby the village Stizhok (Shumsk district, Ternopil’ region,Ukraine). The pot contained about 2500 silver coins struck in the Golden Horde, Crimean Khanate, Caffa, Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, and Lithuania. The significant part of oriental coins bears the Tartar, Moldavian and Lithuanian countermarks. Most likely, the treasure was hidden during the Tartar military expansion atthe end of 15th and beginning of 16th centuries.

Keywords. Numismatics, medieval numismatics, coin hoard,  Moldova, Romania, Wallachia, Vladislav II, ducats, Muntenia.""