Posthumous drachm of alexander iii from kaptol − Gradca (south-central Pannonia).

A posthumous drachm of alexander iii, possibly an imitation, was found outside of any archaeological context on the important iron age site in southern Pannonia, the hillfort settlement at kaptol − Gradca. the settlement seems to have been abandoned by lt b2, while the deposition of the drachm should be dated to the later part of Lt c1 or the early Lt c2 period. the deposition date can be inferred from the hoard evidence in the immediately adjacent regions. this leaves a hiatus of a generation or two between the abandonment of the settlement and the deposition of the coin. the drachm certainly arrived to south-central Pannonia from the east, either the south-eastern Pannonia and the central balkans area or the region between the southern carpathians and the balkan mountain range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]