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La produzione monetaria aurea del Regnum Langobardorum costituisce un tema ampiamente dibattuto dagli studiosi. Come ben noto le emissioni di tremissi, ossia del nominale sul quale si incentrano quasi esclusivamente le coniazioni longobarde in metallo giallo, possono essere schematicamente suddivise in tre fasi, comprese tra la seconda metà del VI e la fine dell’VIII secolo d.C. In questo contributo mi occuperò unicamente del terzo periodo, coincidente con il regno dell’ultimo re dei Longobardi, Desiderio (757-774), nel corso del quale sono battuti i cosiddetti ‘stellati’.

The paper examines ‘trips’ that could be made by coins, which, although they are inanimate objects, have a marked tendency to mobility. My article is focused on the monetary circulation of Mediolanum in the second half of the 3rd century A.D. when a mint struck in the city. After a brief explanation about the historical-numismatic context that brings to the starting of coins production at Mediolanum and the history of studies concerning the debated opening date of the atelier, fi rstly I will examine ‘short trips’ or ‘non-trips’ of Mediolanum’s coins, analysing how much and which specimens of the local mint (or from other mints) have been found in the archaeological excavations conducted in Milan over the last forty years. Secondly, I will consider ‘long trips’ of coins from Mediolanum to other more or less nearby cities of the Empire. Lastly, I will take into account the composition of a sample of hoards unearthed in a wide area between Britain and the Balkans, hidden in the second half of the 3rd century AD. The comparative view of the different types of coin fi nds remains the best way to reconstruct the circulation of a region, keeping in mind the strengths and limitations of each of them.

The bilingual inscription composed in Palmyra in 137 AD, known in the history of studies with different names (tariff, fiscal tax, municipal tariff, municipal law, tax law, etc...), has been the subject of wide researches for nearly one and an half century. During the last few years, the document has continued to attract scholars’ attention. The aim of this paper is to examine and discuss some of the latest publications. Some of them have brought new elements into the history of the epigraph, others have better focused on specific questions, at length debated. Claudia Perassi presents the new data (when, how and where) about the discovery of the inscription by the Russian prince Semyon SemyonovicˇAbamelek-Lazarev and the numismatic aspects of the ‘Tariff’ bases on the coins found during the Polish excavations held in Palmyra from 1959 to 2001. Alessandro Bona, starting from the text of the inscription about the chora surrounding the caravan town, draws the boundaries of the Palmyrene using the more or less recent archaeological and epigraphic findings and outlines its fertile landscape and agricultural active role.