DARDANICI.----This word, on a third brass of Trajan, is accompanied by a type in which a woman stands, with corn-ears in one hand, and gathering her robe with the other. Eckhel classes this, not with the coins of Roman fabric and of Senatorial authority, but amongst what he terms Numi Metallorum.----He observes----"Dardania was a region situated in Upper Moesia, over against Macedonia, and often mentioned by ancient historians as well as geographers; and on a marble of the age of Trajan, L. Befius is called PRAEF. ALAE. DARDANORVM. This appellation of its district continued as long as the reign of Diocletian; for Trebellius Pollio states, that Dardania was the birthplace of Claudius II Gothicus. Now it is certain that in this tract of country there were mines, which having taken their name from that region, supplied metal; wherewith, like those of Delmatia and Pannonia, coins were struck with the epigraph simply of DARDANICI, suppressing the word METALLI, by which PANNONICI, DELM(ATICI), and VLPIANI, are preceded, on other medals of a similar nature, which the industry and avarice of the Romans established and circulated in various provinces, and of which there exist several inscribed with the name of Trajan and of Hadrian."----See D.N.V. vol. vi. p. 416.