Archaeological excavations in the area of the Bishop’s Curia of Tergeste and Piazzetta Santa Lucia carried out between
2005-2008 recovered some Roman imperial coins and a little hoard of antoniniani and bronze coins. The single finds
are entirely in the same pattern as the well-known circulation in the urban area of Tergeste. The small hoard provides an
interesting case study documenting the hoarding of antoniniani and the revaluation of bronze before Aurelian’s reform
(274), economic and monetary phenomena well known in the neighboring regions of Dalmatia and Pannonia, but not
so much in Venetia et Histria.
