The dataset contains photographic and cartographic materials accompanying the study of the influx, circulation, and imitation of Late Roman solidi in the Polish part of Barbaricum. It combines documentation of individual finds with maps illustrating their broader geographical and numismatic relationships. Particular attention is given to barbarian imitations of fifth-century solidi and to the wider networks within which such objects circulated between Central Europe and Scandinavia.
The first two figures document individual imitations of Late Roman gold coins preserved in the collection of the National Museum in Szczecin.
Fig. 1 places finds of solidi issued before the reign of Theodosius II within a wider archaeological context. Their distribution is compared with finds associated with nomadic cultural environments, including the important hoards from Bíňa in Slovakia and Szikáncs in Hungary. This spatial comparison helps to assess possible routes and mechanisms through which Roman gold reached the territories north of the imperial frontier.
Fig. 2 visualises die-links and die-chains identified among Scandinavian imitations of Roman solidi. Rather than showing only the geographical distribution of individual finds, the map reconstructs technical connections between specimens struck from the same or related dies. These relationships provide evidence for the organisation of production, movement of dies or finished coins, and wider networks connecting different areas of northern Europe.
Fig. 3 shows an imitation based on a solidus of Valentinian III, recorded as part of the hoard from Karsibór on the island of Usedom (Uznam).
Figs 4.1 and Fig. 4.2 illustrates an imitation modelled on a solidus of Theodosius II, discovered as a stray find at Smołdzino in the Słupsk district. Both objects are reproduced at a scale of 2:1, allowing their iconographic and stylistic characteristics to be examined in detail.
Taken together, the materials move from the documentation of individual artefacts to the reconstruction of broader patterns of circulation and production. They support the analysis of Roman gold coinage and its imitations as evidence for long-distance contacts, redistribution, and local adaptation of imperial monetary models in the Barbaricum.
(2026-08-11)
