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Давньогрецькі Монети та Їхні Імітації з Території Волині

Translated title Ancient Greek Coins and Their Imitations From the Territory of Volyn
Autor Vasyl Orlyk
Published in Український нумізматичний щорічник, Volume 7 (2023)
The Ukrainian Numismatic Annual
Pages 5-24 (20 pages)
Download https://doi.org/10.31470/2616-6275-2023-7-5-24
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L143135
 
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Abstract

The modern understanding of the geographical boundaries of Volhynia differs significantly from the medieval and even more so from the ancient period of history. The article discusses the findings of ancient Greek coins and their imitations in the area bounded by the Vistula (west), Prypiat (north), and Horynnia (east) rivers. That is, the lands of historical Volyn, which are now located in northwestern Ukraine and neighboring areas of Poland and Belarus: the territories of Volyn, Rivne, western Zhytomyr, northern Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, and Lviv regions of Ukraine, as well as the southern part of the Brest region of Belarus and the eastern part of the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland. The territory of Volyn in the second half of the first millennium BC was inhabited by representatives of separate ethnic groups belonging to different archaeological cultures, including the Thracian Halstat culture and the close Luzhytska culture, as well as the Milohrad culture and later latenized cultures, in particular, the Pomeranian-Kleshova culture. The purpose of the article is to study and systematize the finds of ancient Greek coins and their imitations on the territory of Volyn and the adjacent lands and to introduce them into scientific circulation. The article analyzes 46 ancient Greek coins and their imitations found on the territory of Volyn. All the information available to us is systematized and included in the catalog. In Volyn, the largest number of coin finds are Eastern Celtic coins (21.74%). Coins of the Macedonian Kingdom are in second place (17.39%). Heto-Dacian imitations account for 13.04% of the coin finds. The presence of a significant number of finds of Thracian and Macedonian coins indicates the connection of the Volyn lands with the Greek, Dacian, and Celtic worlds through the Amber Road, which connected the Baltic Sea with the Black and Adriatic Seas.

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