This sixth and final installment in the Pistiros series devoted to
excavations in that former Greek emporium in inland Thrace (today
Bulgaria) closes an extraordinary, three-decade-long collaboration
among Bulgarian, Czech, and British classical archaeologists.
Pistiros VI details the most important find by the Charles
University Prague team of the joint project: a hoard consisting of
549 silver and three gold coins that probably belonged to a
mercenary (and likely gambler) serving in Lysimachus's army. The
hoard is unique both in being uncovered during regular
archaeological excavation, which enabled the team to record
precisely the situation of its deposition, as well as in the types
of coins it contained, imitated by the first coinage of Central
European Celts just after the return of part of their army to an
area in modern Bohemia. Illustrated throughout and featuring a full
catalog of coins certain to delight numismatists, Pistiros VI is a
capstone achievement of great importance in the fields of
archaeology and classical studies.
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