The "simple" question is the one that Glenn raised: whether coins manufactured in one place but issued by and for another place can be considered as of that other place, as the postage stamps produced in
Switzerland for other nations are.
The 3rd-century bronze coins of
Dacia (
AMNG I, 1, pp. 1-20) really are extremely similar to the
Viminacium coins of
Moesia Superior, not only in their
portrait styles and the legions-based
reverse types but in their
fabric. I do not know whether
Dacia had its own minting factory. If the governor of
Dacia authorized the issue of the coins, they are Dacian coins. Someone who has studied them in depth can perhaps say where they actually were produced. The land that is now
Romania certainly
had the metallurgical traditions requisite to making coins. In fact, I am more certain of the advanced metallurgy of the Dacian region than of that farther up the Danube in this period. Do you know where the
Viminacium coins were actually fabricated? I agree with Arminius, they seem all to have been made in one place. Was this in
Moesia Superior or in
Dacia? Do we know? Naturally, the
Dacia coins are found mostly in
Romania and the Viminacium-inscribed (issued by
Viminacium) ones in
Serbia and, I guess, also in
Hungary. Where have the sites of fabrication been excavated?
Pat L.
