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DOI article:Bodzek, Jarosław: M. Mielczarek, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum - Poland. Vol. 1: The Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum in Łódź ; Pt. 4: Galatia - Zeugitana, (The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences), Kraków, 1968, pp.64, pls 25, ISBN 83-86956-28-3: [Rezension]
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to some of those parts of the collection that were included in the Sylloge
volume under discussion.
In all, the publication presents 313 coins, from Galatia (1 piece), Cappadocia
(11 pcs.), Syria with Seleucid kings (50 pcs.), Phoenicia (13 pcs.), Palestine (31
pcs.), Arabia (23 pcs.), Arabia Felix (1 pc.), Persia, (1 pc.), Elymais (2 pcs.), Par-
thia (20 pcs.), Bactria and India (28 pcs.), Egypt (117 pcs.), Cyrenaica (5 pcs.), to
Zeugitana (8 pcs.). A collection of a varied and disparate naturę, it is a difficult
subject to write about and one reąuiring a vast knowledge. By all means, its
author rosę to the challenge.
Especially significant are coins from mints in Syria, Palestine, Arabia, and
Egypt, 239 items in all and the most numerous group among the set of Łódź
relics included in the publication. Importantly, many of them have a plausibly
documented provenance from finds in Turkey (no. 6), Israel (nos. 16,19,26,27,
33-37,39-42, 50, 53-54, 56-57, 66, 69, 71, 73-77, 81-83, 85-86, 90-94,101-102,104-
105,190,198, 205-206, 208, 217, 244, 289, 291, 294), Gaza Strip (nos. 78-80,184,
204,267-268), Jordan (nos. 88,107,111-128), Syria (no. 129), and Egypt (nos. 46,
231). As has been mentioned, most of them were gathered by A. Klein and with
the rest of his collection found themselves in the Łódź museum in 1947-48.
Another notable group of items consists of Bactrian and Indian coins (nos.
155-183). It includes a group of oboli of Eucratides I and features the variant
with a portrait in a diadem (nos. 161-166) and a helmeted portrait (167-174), as
well as imitations of coins of Antioch I (nos. 178-179), Eucratides (nos. 180-181),
and Heliocles (nos. 182-183).
Credit is due to the author for the catalog being highly conscientiously pre-
pared. All coins included in the publication are accompanied by good-quality
photographs by Władysław Podhorecki. M. Mielczarek adopted a consistent,
elear, and legible arrangement. If a complaint were to be madę it might concem
a minor inconsistency in Ptolemaic coinage. The author followed the generał
rule that all coins of the Ptolemies, whether issued in the dynasty's mints in
or outside Egypt, were listed together in the section devoted to the coinage of
of the Archeological and Ethnographicał Museum in Łódź], Prace i Materiały Muzeum Archeologicznego i
Etnograficznego Seria Numizmatyczna i Konsenuatorska, 7,1987, pp. 5-9; IDEM, „Cesarskie monety alek-
sandryjskie I-III wieku w zbiorach Muzeum Archeologicznego i Etnograficznego w Łodzi" [Imperial
Alexandrian Coins of the lst-3rd Centuries in the Collection of the Archeological and Ethnographicał
Museum in Łódź], Prace i Materiały Muzeum Archeologicznego i Etnograficznego Seria Numizmatyczna i
Konserwatorska, 5,1985, pp. 5-20; IDEM, „Two Imitations of Eucratides' Obols from the Museum Col-
lection in Łódź", Wiadomości Numizmatyczne XXXI, 1987, fasc. 1-2, pp. 48-51; also cf. notę 3 above.
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to some of those parts of the collection that were included in the Sylloge
volume under discussion.
In all, the publication presents 313 coins, from Galatia (1 piece), Cappadocia
(11 pcs.), Syria with Seleucid kings (50 pcs.), Phoenicia (13 pcs.), Palestine (31
pcs.), Arabia (23 pcs.), Arabia Felix (1 pc.), Persia, (1 pc.), Elymais (2 pcs.), Par-
thia (20 pcs.), Bactria and India (28 pcs.), Egypt (117 pcs.), Cyrenaica (5 pcs.), to
Zeugitana (8 pcs.). A collection of a varied and disparate naturę, it is a difficult
subject to write about and one reąuiring a vast knowledge. By all means, its
author rosę to the challenge.
Especially significant are coins from mints in Syria, Palestine, Arabia, and
Egypt, 239 items in all and the most numerous group among the set of Łódź
relics included in the publication. Importantly, many of them have a plausibly
documented provenance from finds in Turkey (no. 6), Israel (nos. 16,19,26,27,
33-37,39-42, 50, 53-54, 56-57, 66, 69, 71, 73-77, 81-83, 85-86, 90-94,101-102,104-
105,190,198, 205-206, 208, 217, 244, 289, 291, 294), Gaza Strip (nos. 78-80,184,
204,267-268), Jordan (nos. 88,107,111-128), Syria (no. 129), and Egypt (nos. 46,
231). As has been mentioned, most of them were gathered by A. Klein and with
the rest of his collection found themselves in the Łódź museum in 1947-48.
Another notable group of items consists of Bactrian and Indian coins (nos.
155-183). It includes a group of oboli of Eucratides I and features the variant
with a portrait in a diadem (nos. 161-166) and a helmeted portrait (167-174), as
well as imitations of coins of Antioch I (nos. 178-179), Eucratides (nos. 180-181),
and Heliocles (nos. 182-183).
Credit is due to the author for the catalog being highly conscientiously pre-
pared. All coins included in the publication are accompanied by good-quality
photographs by Władysław Podhorecki. M. Mielczarek adopted a consistent,
elear, and legible arrangement. If a complaint were to be madę it might concem
a minor inconsistency in Ptolemaic coinage. The author followed the generał
rule that all coins of the Ptolemies, whether issued in the dynasty's mints in
or outside Egypt, were listed together in the section devoted to the coinage of
of the Archeological and Ethnographicał Museum in Łódź], Prace i Materiały Muzeum Archeologicznego i
Etnograficznego Seria Numizmatyczna i Konsenuatorska, 7,1987, pp. 5-9; IDEM, „Cesarskie monety alek-
sandryjskie I-III wieku w zbiorach Muzeum Archeologicznego i Etnograficznego w Łodzi" [Imperial
Alexandrian Coins of the lst-3rd Centuries in the Collection of the Archeological and Ethnographicał
Museum in Łódź], Prace i Materiały Muzeum Archeologicznego i Etnograficznego Seria Numizmatyczna i
Konserwatorska, 5,1985, pp. 5-20; IDEM, „Two Imitations of Eucratides' Obols from the Museum Col-
lection in Łódź", Wiadomości Numizmatyczne XXXI, 1987, fasc. 1-2, pp. 48-51; also cf. notę 3 above.
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