Il ripostiglio normanno di Castiglione di Sicilia (Catania). storia di una scoperta eccezionale fra "la smania dell'oro" e "le superstizioni del popolino"

This note has been inspired by a series of documents recently found in the Central State Archives in Rome. These documents contain unknown informations related to an exceptional hoard of Norman tari`, accidentally discovered in 1902, in the Castiglione di Sicilia's area (Catania). Furthermore, they shed new light on this site as well as on the dynamics in the antiquity market of acquisition and dispersion of the Norman coinage, which was difficult to classify, until the beginning of XX Century. The thirteen specimens catalogued and studied in this paper are kept in the Archaeological Museum of Syracuse.