Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (11.2016)

JAROSŁAW BODZEK

also comprised one coin entered under no. F.K. 6152 (Cat. A 1). Fortunately,
the archives of the Numismatic Cabinet in the National Museum in Kraków have
preserved an old inventory card with a description of an as from Olbia, series II
according to P.O. Karyshkovski’s classification," and the notę: “Acąuired from
Mr Terlecki of Kerch (in exchange for old print duplicates), year 1908” (Fig. 1).
The card also includes a notę that the coin was found at Olbia (“obtained from
the excavation of 01via”). The information about the acąuisition of historical
objects from the northem coast of the Black Sea, including the above-mentioned
coin, can also be found in the printed report of the museum administration for
the year 1908: “(Acąuired) A number of Greek artefacts from excavations at Kerch,
namely 17 glass vessels, 33 vessels of terracotta (little vases, bowls, shallow bowls,
etc.), 5 cressets, 9 figurines of terracotta, 1 polished metal mirror, 1 copper as from
01via with a depiction of Medusa’s face and the characters X.A.F.J.”12 The coin
is unfortunately no longer present in the numismatic collection of the National
Museum in Kraków, despite the annotation in pencil “transferred to the Czapski
Museum (i.e., to the numismatic collection in the Czapski Pałace at 12 Wolska St.
[currently, 12 Marszałek Józef Piłsudski St.]).” In all probability, it was lost during
the Second World War.13 At any ratę, the above-named inventory card bears no
auditing seal from the early 1950s; likewise, there is no entry referring to that coin
in the contemporaneous inventory of the National Museum in Kraków, indicating
that the piece was already missing at the time.14 The transaction formalities relating
to Dr Terlecki were concluded on 8 August 1909 with the following notę in
the museunTs Book of Entries: “Amount payable to Dr Terlecki, Rb. 102.50
Kop. [i.e. 102 roubles and 50 kopecks] = K. 260.86 h. [i.e. 260 crowns and 86
hellers], for the Greek artefacts from the excavations at Kerch.”13 This annotation
means that the entry on the coin [as] inventory card “in exchange for old print
duplicates” did not refer to j ust any exchange but pointed to the sale of the latter and
the payment in cash to Ignacy Terlecki.
It is possible that some other ancient coins were obtained by the Nation-
al Museum in Kraków directly from Dr Terlecki at about the same time, as
the museum inyentory records contain entries to the effect that over a dozen

11 KARYSHKOVSKIY 1988: 43ff; SNG BM 379-384; SNG Stancomb 343; cf. BODZEK 1997a: 66.
12 KOPERA 1909: 11; cf. MOCZULSKA 2006: 70.
13 BODZEK 1997: 67. The numismatic collection of the National Museum in Kraków suffered some losses
as a conseąuence of the German occupation during the Second World War; cf. REYMAN 1978: 158; KOCÓJOWA
1978: 339; HACZEWSKA and KORCZYŃSKA 1988: 56f; IDEM 1997: 39f, 50f; BODZEK 1997b: 65, 72;
IDEM 1998: 32. For the wartime losses of the Numismatic Cabinet (the National Museum in Kraków) and their
character, see PIEŃKOWSKI 2000: 38f.
14 No. F.K. 6152 cannot be found in the inventory records.
15 Book of Entries no. Ł. 3614.