A Gold-plated Barbarian Imitation of a Roman Coin Found in Karczyn-Wieś in Kuyavia / Brązowe pozłacane barbarzyńskie naśladownictwo rzymskiej monety znalezione w Karczynie-Wsi na Kujawach (PDF, 2,6 MB)
Krzysztof Jarzęcki, The Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz
ORCID: 000-0002-4137-9729
A Gold-plated Barbarian Imitation of a Roman Coin Found in Karczyn-Wieś in Kuyavia
Abstract: In 2022, a bronze gilded coin was discovered in Karczyn-Wieś. It is a barbarian imitation of a Roman coin of Maximian Herculius, originally minted in Cyzicus or Antioch between 290 and 293. The obverse closely follows the original Roman coin. The reverse, which has no direct parallel in ancient coinage, appears to be a composition inspired by various Roman coins. The coin was probably produced within the sphere of the Chernyakhiv culture and later brought to the Kuyavia region. It functioned as a pendant, intended to display the portrait of the Roman emperor. Hypothetically, it may have been part of the equipment of a grave – now destroyed – whose cultural attribution remains uncertain.
Key words: coin finds, imitations of coins, Barbaricum, Maximian Herculius, goldsmithing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52800/ajst.1.20.a6
Jarzęcki, K. 2025. “A Gold-plated Barbarian Imitation of a Roman Coin Found in Karczyn-Wieś in Kuyavia”, Notae Numismaticae – Zapiski Numizmatyczne 20: 103–124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52800/ajst.1.20.a6