Two Interesting Bulk Finds of Roman Denarii from Horovce – Ostrá Hora Hill (Púchov District) / Dwa intersujące kolektywne znaleziska rzymskich denarów z Horovców – Góra Ostrá hora (powiat Púchov)

Boris Stoklas, Slovak National Museum – Historical Museum

ORCID: 0000-0002-0235-924X

Two Interesting Bulk Finds of Roman Denarii from Horovce – Ostrá Hora Hill (Púchov District)

Abstract: Large sets of deposited Roman Imperial denarii from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD are not common finds in Slovakia. Two accumulations of coins of 28 and 67 pieces of heavily worn denarii discovered on the Ostrá hora Hill in the cadastral area of the villages of Horovce and Kvašov, and an unrelated find of a gilded silver buckle from stage D2 of the Migration Period suggest that the site may have had a cult significance for the Late Suebian population in the Central Považie region. The bulk finds of denarii, one with coinage ranging from Trajan to Commodus and the other with coinage ranging from Hadrian to Septimius Severus, have their analogies within the Barbaricum on the territory of Central and Eastern Europe. The representation of the barbarian imitation of the Roman denarius is also a testimony to the interregional contacts between the barbarian peoples in the Later Roman Period and at the beginning of the Migration Period. Although the find is now physically missing, it provides a great deal of new information about the significance of imperial denarii in Late Antiquity on the territory of Central European Barbaricum.

Key words: Migration Period, Suebi, Central Považie, Roman imperial denarii, barbarian imitation denarius

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52800/ajst.1.18.a6

Stoklas, B. 2023. “Two Interesting Bulk Finds of Roman Denarii from Horovce – Ostrá Hora Hill (Púchov District)”, Notae Numismaticae – Zapiski Numizmatyczne 18: 101–144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52800/ajst.1.18.a6