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the coins of the Kalisz Group wcre struck (or at least rcmained in circulation) (Surm the advanced stagc of the first half of the first century A.D.

A separate matter are the circumstanccs which accompanied the initiation of minting in the region of today’s Kalisz. No doubt those responsible for this would be a group of Celtic aristocracy — probably Boii — who, living among the peopleof the Przeworsk culture, Jeft no archaeologically tangiblc traces other than coins. The settlement at Janków Drugi, and probably also a similar settlement in its region, at the close of the Pre-Roman and onset of the Roman period, must have formed a sort of a centre of trade and commerce (power centre?) which played a key role in long-distance contacts between the North and the South. Very likely, its operation was associated with a dynamie development of a large settlement concentration on the Prosną near Kalisz during phase BI.⁷⁴ Numerous finds of Roman coins front thissite seem to confirm a similar situation also during the Late Roman period.

Translałed by Anna Kinecka

Adresy autorów/Authors’ addresses:

Mgr Marcin Rudnicki Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytet Warszawski Szkoła Główna

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 PL 00-927 Warszawa tel. [phone], kom. 604 434 141 [e-mail]

Sławomir Miłek [e-mail]

Leszek Ziąbka

Muzeum Okręgowe Ziemi Kaliskiej [e-mail]

Adam Kędzierski

Kaliskie Stanowisko Archeologiczne IAiE PAN akedzierski 1 @wp.pl

74 k. G o d ł o w s k i, Przemiany kulturowe i osadnicze w południowej i

w młodszym okresie przedrzymskim i w okresie rzymskim (Wrocław-Warszawa-Krakow

1985), p. 45.

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