Aleksander Bursche

University of Warsaw | UW · Institute of Archaeology

A very rare type of a pierced aureus of the eastern usurper Quietus recently came to light in western Ukraine, a region settled in the second half of the 3rd century by Gothic societies. Other Quietus and Macrianus II coins from finds are also discussed. Particular attention is paid to the pierced aurei of these usurpers almost certain to derive fr...

The contribution deals with the imitative solidi, which were produced in the second half of the 5 th century on Gotland and found in today's Poland. Their distribution on Gotland, Bornholm, in southern Sweden, and Pomerania points to the directions of long-distance, mutual contacts among the Germanic elites as well as the exchange of goods of a pol...

In the Numismatic Chronicle for 2013, A. Bursche put forward the proposition that the imperial treasury was seized by the Goths when in A.D. 251 they crushed the Roman army at Abritus. ¹ Most of the plundered Roman gold was presumably in the form of coin (ingots are neither excluded nor confirmed). This gold has now been traced with some confidence...

The unique pierced aureus of Faustina II comes from a pre-2016 find from the locality Stygajny in northern Poland. The region to the east of the Vistula delta is known for its remarkable concentration of Late Antique hoards, among them, the 5th century AD solidus deposits found at Trąbki Małe (German, Klein Tromp), the largest to be recorded so far...

Roman coins were exported from the Empire to the north European barbaricum in large numbers, where they entered a new sphere of economic and social interactions. There they were also imitated in significant numbers. Until the mid-3rd century primarily silver denarii were copied, which remained in a primarily economic sphere of economic transactions...

From the region between the southern Baltic seaboard and Ukraine, territory of Gothic culture settlement, we have records of a great many aurei of Trajan Decius and his immediate predecessors. The early years of the 21st century have witnessed a considerable increase in these finds, the result of widespread amateur metal detector use. In contrast,...

The concept of Central Europe is understood here to cover the geographical centre of the European continent (i.e. the territory between the Elbe, Bug and Neman rivers, that is, eastern Germany, Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia and Lithuania), formerly treated in much of the English-speaking world as ‘Eastern Europe’. In the past six years, however, this a...

In Barbaricum, area stretching east of the river Rhine and north of the Danube 1 , Roman coins begin to appear in larger number starting from the second half of the 2 nd century AD and continue to occur in native contexts until the Migration Period 2 . Fig. 1. Kostkowice, distr. Zawiercie (PL), late 4 th century hoard of Dancheny-Brangstrup horizon...

This paper illustrates the aim of the NETConnect project which is to provide that broad view by supporting cross-site cultural connection of three prominent European archaeological sites. The project creates an IT infrastructure capable to provide the public with a wide range of experiences, ranging from the interaction with on-site mobile devices...

Coins are the most frequent category of Roman imports encountered in Northern Europe. Purposes and ways of their influx are briefly analysed. Author attempts to answer the following questions: how did Roman coins circulate within Barbarian societies and what were their functions among these peoples. These functions are discussed on three levels: ci...

Who creates the past in Germany? - Volume 68 Issue 260 - Aleksander Bursche

In October 1991, Janusz Krzysztof Kozlowski of the University of Cracow will be at the Society of Antiquaries in London to receive the Prehistoric Society's first Europa Prize in recognition of his contribution to Palaeolithic archaeology. His achievement, involving as it has international interdisciplinary collaboration, has been all the more rema...

Review zu John C. Barrett, Andrew P. Fitzpatrick, Lesley Maccinnes (ed). Barbarians And Romans in northwest Europe from the later republic to late antiquity. 1989. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International series 5471; ISBN 0-86054-603-9 und Mark B. Shchukin. Rome and the barbarians in centrol ond eastern Europe: 1st century BC-1st cent...