Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (3/4.1999)

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kraków 1999

ANDRZEJ BARTCZAK

Institute of Oriental Philology, Jagiellonian University
Cracow

ISLAMIC DIRHAMS

FROM THE GÓRA STRĘKOWA HOARD

This hoard was plowed up in the fali of 1984 by Henryk Buczkowski,
a resident of the village of Góra Strękowa (cf. Map 1), commime of
Zawady, in the voivodeship of Łomża. During the tillage of a field lo-
cated on the western slope of Góra Strękowa, just under the peak of the
rise, a clay pot was uncovered, which broke apart when it was brought
out onto the surface. Inside the pot were found coins, laid one on top of
the other. There were ornaments lying on top of the coins: 4 three-
armed curved strings of beads, made of gilded silver, and two silver ear-
rings with traces of gilding. According to the accounts of eyewitnesses,
the pot in which the hoard was located had a capacity of about 2 liters;
the walls of the vessel were about half a centimeter thick. The finder
handed over part of the hoard to a neighbor woman, Ms. Czyżewska, who
in turn gave several coins to hunters who were hunting in the vici-

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