Summary The nature of settlements in the sixth-century Balkans is a matter of current debate. Amphorae and hoards of iron implements and weapons have been discussed in relation to this controversy. A key problem is that of the use of coins in an economic environment without any large-scale agricultural production. While hoards of coins have been analyzed in relation to the presence of the military in the Balkans, single finds of coins remain a category of archaeological evidence commonly neglected in discussions of the sixth-century economy. The article offers an explanation connected with the quaestura exercitus implemented in 536, and its conclusion is that the small copper denominations discovered on hilltop sites in the Balkans were not obtained on the market (none existed in any of the many hilltop sites known so far), but piggybacked on transports of annona.

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六世纪和七世纪初的巴尔干地区的硬币，堡垒和商业交易所

小结六世纪巴尔干地区定居点的性质是当前的辩论问题。关于这一争议，已经讨论了安瓿和铁器和武器的ho积。一个关键问题是在没有任何大规模农业生产的经济环境中使用硬币。尽管已经分析了与巴尔干地区的军事存在有关的硬币ho积，但单次发现硬币仍是六世纪经济讨论中通常忽略的一类考古学证据。这篇文章提供了与536年实施的quaestura exercitus有关的解释，其结论是，在巴尔干半岛的山顶遗址上发现的少量铜矿没有在市场上获得（到目前为止，许多已知的山顶遗址中都不存在） ，