Late Iron Age coins produced in the Đurđevac (Gjurgjevac) tradition from Donja Dolina: a new subtype of late Đurđevac (Gjurgjevac) tetradrachms “Donja Dolina”

Apstrakt

The numismatic record of the Donja Dolina site includes eleven Late Iron Age copper alloy coins with an undisclosed amount (if any) of silver. It appears that these coins can be incorporated within an umbrella category of coins produced in the Đurđevac tradition, an apparently widespread phenomenon reflecting the influence of an earlier type of Tauriscan coins from the eponymous hoard. This coin group seems to have emerged as distinctive local variants, several of which have been recognised and named after the respective sites at which they were found and – where such evidence exists – presumably also produced. The Donja Dolina assemblage has allowed one such local variant to be defined and named after the site; however, it does not encompass all the coins produced in the Đurđevac tradition found on the right bank of the Sava. Nevertheless, the remaining coins clearly belong to the same tradition and, save a single specimen, may well also have been produced locally.