Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 2025
The National Museum of Slovenia has two silver ingots in its collection from the mid-fourth centu... more The National Museum of Slovenia has two silver ingots in its collection from the mid-fourth century AD, although unfortunately, they lack information about the context of their discovery. The ingots are in the shape of a double axe-head, which is the commonest form of Late Roman silver ingots. Their weight corresponds to that of a Roman pound. Both feature a stamped portrait of the Roman Emperor Constantius II. In addition to the portrait, one of the ingots has a punched POLIPI inscription and the other two stamped inscriptions that read EOR NKA and EOPTOC / NKA. The XRF analyses have confirmed a 95–98% purity of silver known to have been used in the silver ingot production. Similar ingots were fairly common in the fourth century AD, out of this group, the paper focuses on the extremely rare examples stamped with Imperial portraits.
Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 2025
The National Museum of Slovenia has two silver ingots in its collection from the mid-fourth centu... more The National Museum of Slovenia has two silver ingots in its collection from the mid-fourth century AD, although unfortunately, they lack information about the context of their discovery. The ingots are in the shape of a double axe-head, which is the commonest form of Late Roman silver ingots. Their weight corresponds to that of a Roman pound. Both feature a stamped portrait of the Roman Emperor Constantius II. In addition to the portrait, one of the ingots has a punched POLIPI inscription, and the other two stamped inscriptions that read EOR NKA and EOPTOC / NKA. The XRF analyses have confirmed a 95–98% purity of silver known to have been used in the silver ingot production. Similar ingots were fairly common in the fourth century AD, out of this group, the paper focuses on the extremely rare examples stamped with Imperial portraits.
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