{"id":36470,"date":"2026-05-05T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:00:32","slug":"regulated-roman-coins-and-their-imitations-from-india-did-roman-coins-circulate-as-money-in-the-subcontinent-standaryzacja-monet-rzymskich-i-ich-imitacji-w-indiach-czy-monety-rzymskie-funkcjonowa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/tom-xv-notae-numismaticae-zapiski-numizmatyczne\/regulated-roman-coins-and-their-imitations-from-india-did-roman-coins-circulate-as-money-in-the-subcontinent-standaryzacja-monet-rzymskich-i-ich-imitacji-w-indiach-czy-monety-rzymskie-funkcjonowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulated Roman Coins and Their Imitations from India: Did Roman Coins Circulate as Money in the Subcontinent? \/ Standaryzacja monet rzymskich i ich imitacji w Indiach. Czy monety rzymskie funkcjonowa\u0142y jako pieni\u0105dz na subkontynencie indyjskim?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emilia Smagur, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Archaeology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ORCID: 0000\u20110003\u20110537\u2011723X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regulated Roman Coins and Their Imitations from India: Did Roman Coins Circulate as Money in the Subcontinent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This paper focuses on a relatively unknown group of published and unpublished Roman gold coins and their imitations from India with a large gold plug placed behind the head of an emperor. This phenomenon was briefly discussed by Peter Berghaus, who rightly noticed that the size of the filling on those coins suggests that the purpose for placing such material into the hole was different than simply the repair of a piercing made previously for a piece of jewellery. He considers the possibility that the holes were made in order to check whether those coins were plated or not and were later refilled with gold so that the coins could return to the money market. I would like to present a different explanation of this phenomenon. I would argue that those coins were perforated and plugged in order to adjust their weight. Such an adjustment let them be used as money in the Subcontinent. Similar phenomena from various parts of the world and time periods constitute the key to understand the purpose of plugging those coins and those analogies are examined in this paper as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key words: <\/strong>aureus, modification of coins, imitations of Roman coins, India, money<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DOI: <\/strong>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52800\/ajst.1.a.11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smagur, E. 2020. \u201cRegulated Roman Coins and Their Imitations from India: Did Roman Coins Circulate as Money in the Subcontinent?\u201d, <em>Notae Numismaticae \u2013 Zapiski Numizmatyczne<\/em> 15: 179\u2013210. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52800\/ajst.1.a.11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mnk-downloads-block links-downloads-block download-block\"><div class=\"link-row\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/11-Smagur_regulated-roman-coins-e.pdf\" class=\"d-flex align-items-center link-row-inner\" aria-label=\"Pobierz: Regulated Roman Coins and Their Imitations from India: Did Roman Coins Circulate as Money in the Subcontinent? \/ Standaryzacja monet rzymskich i ich imitacji w Indiach. Czy monety rzymskie funkcjonowa\u0142y jako pieni\u0105dz na subkontynencie indyjskim? (PDF, 985 kB)\" download><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#file-icon\"><\/use><\/svg><div class=\"content\"><p>Regulated Roman Coins and Their Imitations from India: Did Roman Coins Circulate as Money in the Subcontinent? \/ Standaryzacja monet rzymskich i ich imitacji w Indiach. Czy monety rzymskie funkcjonowa\u0142y jako pieni\u0105dz na subkontynencie indyjskim?<span class=\"file-format-size\"> (PDF, 985 kB)<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emilia Smagur, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Archaeology ORCID: 0000\u20110003\u20110537\u2011723X Regulated Roman Coins and Their Imitations from India: Did Roman Coins Circulate as Money in the Subcontinent? Abstract: This paper focuses on a relatively unknown group of published and unpublished Roman gold coins and their imitations from India with a large gold plug placed behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":36441,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36471,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36470\/revisions\/36471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}