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DOI Artikel:Walczak, Eliza: The North Black Sea collection of Dr. Ignacy Terlecki: the coinage of Bosporan cities and Chersoneus
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41338#0065
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ZAPISKI NUMIZMATYCZNE
DOI: 11,12797/ZP.l 1.2016.11.02
ELIZA WALCZAK
The National Museum in Warsaw
The North Black Sea Collection
of Dr Ignacy Terlecki. The Coinage of Bosporan
Cities and Chersonesus'
ABSTRACT: The article is concemed with the coin collector Ignacy Terlecki
and the origin, history, and present State of his collection. Dr Ignacy Terlecki was
a military surgeon in Kerch, Crimea, in the early 20th century. It was there that
he began to collect coins from ancient Greek colonies and ones issued by rulers
of that region. He found such coins on his own or purchased them from local
residents or antiąuarians, which eventually lead to the creation of an extensive
collection representative of the majority of the coinage from the northem coast
of the Black Sea, a collection that is regarded as uniąue by contemporary
numismatists. It comprised coins from Greek colonies (Olbia, Chersonesus,
and the cities of the Bosporan Kingdom, especially Panticapaeum) as well as
the coinage of the Bosporan rulers. After the doctor ’s death, his family, by this
time already in Poland, madę an offer to the National Museum in Warsaw, resulting
in the purchase of the collection by the museum in the years 1925 and 1930. Despite
the loss, during World War II, of the most precious specimens, notably gold and
electrum coins, this collection continues to be the best collection in Poland and
one of the best in Europę, representing the entire spectrum of ancient coinage from
the North Black Sea region, from the beginning of its existence in the 6th century
BC until as late as the end of the coinage of the Bosporan State in the 4th century
AD, also including some later Byzantine coins from Chersonesus. Further on,
the article briefly presents the results of the work on the recreation of the original
collection as based on one of the catalogue manuscripts by Władysław Terlecki
1 And of several other north Black Sea and Mediterranean colonies/cities that can be found in the collection,
except for Olbia and Tyras, which will be the subject of a separate study.
This article was written within the framework of the project of the National Programme for the Development
of the Humanities no. 0195/NPRH4/Hla/83/2015 of the Ministry for Science and Higher Education.
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ZAPISKI NUMIZMATYCZNE
DOI: 11,12797/ZP.l 1.2016.11.02
ELIZA WALCZAK
The National Museum in Warsaw
The North Black Sea Collection
of Dr Ignacy Terlecki. The Coinage of Bosporan
Cities and Chersonesus'
ABSTRACT: The article is concemed with the coin collector Ignacy Terlecki
and the origin, history, and present State of his collection. Dr Ignacy Terlecki was
a military surgeon in Kerch, Crimea, in the early 20th century. It was there that
he began to collect coins from ancient Greek colonies and ones issued by rulers
of that region. He found such coins on his own or purchased them from local
residents or antiąuarians, which eventually lead to the creation of an extensive
collection representative of the majority of the coinage from the northem coast
of the Black Sea, a collection that is regarded as uniąue by contemporary
numismatists. It comprised coins from Greek colonies (Olbia, Chersonesus,
and the cities of the Bosporan Kingdom, especially Panticapaeum) as well as
the coinage of the Bosporan rulers. After the doctor ’s death, his family, by this
time already in Poland, madę an offer to the National Museum in Warsaw, resulting
in the purchase of the collection by the museum in the years 1925 and 1930. Despite
the loss, during World War II, of the most precious specimens, notably gold and
electrum coins, this collection continues to be the best collection in Poland and
one of the best in Europę, representing the entire spectrum of ancient coinage from
the North Black Sea region, from the beginning of its existence in the 6th century
BC until as late as the end of the coinage of the Bosporan State in the 4th century
AD, also including some later Byzantine coins from Chersonesus. Further on,
the article briefly presents the results of the work on the recreation of the original
collection as based on one of the catalogue manuscripts by Władysław Terlecki
1 And of several other north Black Sea and Mediterranean colonies/cities that can be found in the collection,
except for Olbia and Tyras, which will be the subject of a separate study.
This article was written within the framework of the project of the National Programme for the Development
of the Humanities no. 0195/NPRH4/Hla/83/2015 of the Ministry for Science and Higher Education.
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