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ACTA MVSEI
XVI. 1
MINISTERUL CULTURII
BRVKENTHAL
ACTA MVSEI
XVI. 1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Florentin PERIANU, Sabin Adrian LUCA, Ana-Maria PĂPUREANU, A Spondylus Gaederopus
Linnaeus, 1758 Bead Discovered at Tărtăria Gura Luncii Site (Alba County) in the 2019 Systematic
Excavation Campaign ……………….…..……………………………………………...…………………....……. 15
Oliver DIETRICH, Die Bronzezeitlichen Tüllenbeile aus dem Brukenthal-Museum Sibiu. Ein
Kommentierter Katalog ……………….…..………………………………………………………………....……. 35
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Claudiu MUNTEANU , Sorin COCIȘ, Roman Brooches found in Sibiu County ………..……...…..…..… 121
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Claudiu MUNTEANU , Contributions to Sibiu County Archaeological Repertoire (III) ..…….…..…..… 133
Claudiu MUNTEANU, Raluca Maria FRÎNCU, Older and Newer Coin Discoveries from Transylvania 137
Cristiana TĂTARU, The Ottoman Coin Hoard found at Veștem, Sibiu District ……………….………….. 141
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Borbála BENDA, Kitchens in the Aristocratic Courts in Early Modern Hungary ……………….……….. 165
Tudor A. MARTIN, A Hoard of 17 -18 Centuries Coins found near Râșnov, Brașov County …….…..
th th
173
Razvan C. POP, Between Principality and Grand Principality: Landmarks of the Demographic
Evolution of Transylvania in the 17th and 18th Centuries ………………….………………………………… 193
Alexandru Gh. SONOC, Two Swedish Copper Plate Coins (Daler) from the Brukenthal National
Museum’s Collection and an Account about Martin Schmeizel’s Adventures in Sweden (1709 And
1712) ……………………………………..…………………………………………………………………..………. 199
Radu TEUCEANU, The Portfolio of Old Maps Convolut Verschiedener Karten in the Brukenthal
Cartographic Cabinet ……………..………………..………..……………………………………………………. 217
Alexandru Gh. SONOC, Dorin BARBU, Ioan BRAI, Remarks on Two Indian Sabres from a Private
Collection from Șelimbăr, Occasioned by Their Conservation ………………………………………………. 245
Alexandru NICOLAESCU, Higiena și Școala [Hygiene and School] Magazine, a Promoter of
Education among the Romanians of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1876-1880) …………………………. 279
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Jan DE MAERE, A Rediscovered Saif Sheds Light on the Creation of Arab Identity in the Middle East
(1909-1922) ……………………………………………..……..……………………………………………………. 287
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Dana Roxana HRIB, Brukenthal National Museum in 2020: A Chronicle of History Exhibitions and
Events ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 311
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Michaela Spataro, Starčevo-Criş ceramic and technology: the first potters of the middle Danube Basin,
Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, Aus dem Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
der Universität Kiel, Band 341, Neolithikum and Chalkolitikum in Südosteuropa, vol. 4, In
Kommission bei dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn, 2019 – A Review (Anamaria TUDORIE) …...………. 313
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List of Abbreviations………........................................................................................................................ 315
OLDER AND NEWER COIN DISCOVERIES FROM TRANSYLVANIA
Abstract: This note presents several ancient, medieval and modern coin discoveries from Transylvania.
Beside new discoveries, several informations refers to discoveries from the 18th - 19th centuries, published
in several books and magazines of the time, most of them destined to the larger public. Those informations
remained unknown to the archaeological community in Romania, not being included in the districts’
archaeological repertories.
Keywords: coin, hoard, silver, Transylvania, 18th- 19th centuries.
Rezumat: Această notă prezintă câteva descoperiri monetare antice, medievale și moderne din Transilvania.
În afară de câteva descoperiri mai recente, câteva informații se referă la descoperiri din secolele XVIII –
XIX, publicate în câteva cărți și reviste de epocă, majoritatea destinate publicului larg. Acele informații au
rămas necunoscute comunității arheologice din România, nefiind incluse în repertoriile arheologice ale
respectivelor județe.
Cuvinte cheie: monedă, tezaur, argint, Transilvania, secolele XVIII – XIX.
In this note we present several ancient, medieval The hoard was taken to Budapest (*** 1867, 323-
and modern coin discoveries from Transylvania. 324). This discovery should not be confused with
Several discoveries are recent, but the majority are the one made in the same period, found in a clay
old discoveries, from the 18th - 19th centuries, moneybox and composed of 700 silver coins from
which remained unknown to the Romanian Nero to Commodus, which entered the scientific
scientific community. This is due to the fact that literature as the Alba Iulia I hoard (Suciu 2000,
the coins were lost, or were taken to Budapest, 19). Therefor this previously unknown hoard
Wien and Halle, being mentioned in publications should be considered as the Alba Iulia IX hoard.
printed in the German language, most of them
destined to the larger public. The discoveries were
Băgaciu, Mureș district
made in several counties and were not included in
In 1856, in a niche situated in the church’s
their archaeological repertoires (RepArhMS,
surrounding wall, was found a hoard composed of
passim; RepArhCJ, passim; RepArhHG, passim;
2577 silver coins. The coins came from
RepArhBV, passim; RepArhAB, passim;
Hungarian, Transylvanian and Polish mints and
RepArhSJ, passim).
were issued by Sigismund III, John Casimir,
Gabriel Bethlen, Matthia II and Leopold I (Salzer
Alba Iulia (Apulum), Alba district
1860, 358).
1. Around the years 1849 - 1850 were found, in
the ruins of a cellar, 15 Roman silver coins, issued
Bălăușeri, Mureș district
by Trajan (3 coins), Otho (1 coin), Vitellius (1
One bronze sestertius issued by Antoninus Pius
coin), Domitianus (2 coins), Antoninus Pius (2
was found here recently.
coins), Faustina (2 coins), Commodus (2 coins)
and Aurelianus (2 coins) (Neigebaur 1851, 166,
Boița, Hunedoara district
no. 348). This was a coins hoard which remained
In 1850 was found, on the occasion of building
unknown to the Romanian scholars and should be
the railroad, a hoard composed of 222 coins of the
considered as the Alba Iulia VIII hoard.
same type - 12 kreuzer 1795. The hoard was not
retrieved because the coins were too „recent” for
2. In 1867, on the occasion of building the
that time and had no numismatic interest (Seidl
railroad, in the area of Marosporto was found, in a
1856, 325).
clay pot resembling a moneybox, a coin hoard of
Bran, Brașov district
* Brukenthal National Museum Sibiu. One denarius issued by Marcus Aurelius was
** Brukenthal National Museum, ralucafro@yahoo.com.
found here recently during metal detecting
over 500 coins - issues from Drusus to Hadrianus.
activities.
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Older and Newer Coin Discoveries from Transylvania
Friesach (4 denarii), Florentius III of Holland (5 In this area was found, in 1844, a coin hoard. It
denarii) and Rainer Ceno of Venice (1 denarius) was composed of Roman republican denarii,
(*** 1845, 80-83, no. 977-1005). It is unclear if drachms of Dyrrhachium and Dacian coins,
some of these coins formed a hoard, or represent probably silver tetradrachms (Krones 1876, 193).
isolated finds.
Transylvania, area of ~
Solovăstru, Mureș district 1. Before 1680, a coin hoard formed of Roman
In several publications from the 18th - 19th republican denarii was found somewhere in this
centuries exists clues that, before 1766, was found region. A small part of this hoard reached Italy
here a great coin hoard. It seems that it was and was mentioned in a publication from the 19th
formed of Dyrrhachium drachms, and, probably, century (Garruccius 1877). The coins that reached
other types of coins. Italy were issued by L. Cassius Longinus (1 item),
These are the informations: C. Naevius Balbus (1 item), L. Papius (1 item), C.
1. In a letter destined to the baron Samuel von Poblicius (1 item), L. Procilius (1 item), M.
Brukenthal and sent by E. H. Wűrden from Sibiu Volteius (5 items) and Q. Fufius Calenus/M.
at 28th of december 1781, is mentioned that he Cordius (1 item) (Garruccius 1877, 111-112).
owns 28 Dyrrhachium drachms, which come from
a discovery of „several thousands” from 2. In the British Museum’s collection exist several
Solovăstru (Schaser 1848, 122). Dacian tetradrachms, for which it is mentioned
that they were found in Transylvania. The
2. Before 1781, at a citizen from Sibiu, probably entrance year in the collection is the same (1919),
the same E. H. Wűrden, were seen Dyrrhachium so it is not excluded that the items belonged to a
drachms and Roman coins (*** 1781, 48). coin hoard.
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ActaAH Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Budapest.
ACS Asociaţia culturală Sarmizegetusa.
ActaMN Acta Musei Napocensis, Muzeul Național de Istorie a Transilvaniei, Cluj-Napoca.
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ActaSic ActaSiculica, Sfântu-Gheorghe
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AM Arheologia Medievală
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AIIAC Anuarul Institutului de Istorie și Arheologie Cluj
AVSL Archiv des Verains für Siebenbürburgische Landeskunde, Neue Folge,
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BAM Brvkenthal Acta Mvsei, Sibiu.
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BB Bibliotheca Brukenthal, Sibiu.
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