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Woźniak, Mateusz: The chronicle of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum in Krakow (2017)
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MATEUSZ WOŹNIAK
322
MATEUSZ WOŹNIAK
National Museum in Krakow
The Chronicle of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National
Museum in Krakow (2017)
In 2017, the Numismatic Cabinet had the following staff members: Dr. Hab.
Jarosław Bodzek (head of the Cabinet, ancient coinage); Anna Bochnak, M.A.
(modem coinage, varia, deposits); Anda Jaworucka-Drath (paper money); Dorota
Malarczyk, M.A. (Oriental coinage); Paulina Taradaj, M.A. (medals); and Mateusz
Woźniak, M.A. (medieval coinage).
At the end of 2017, the collections of the Numismatic Cabinet consisted of
110,834 pieces (117,999 pieces including deposits). In comparison to the previous
year, the overall size of the collections increased by 1,330 pieces.
Among the additions, particular attention should be paid to a group of Middle
and Far Eastern coins from a donation by Mirosław Kruszyński. The coinage in
this group includes 12 gold coins (10th- and llth-century dinars from the Abbäsid
and Fätimid dynasties; Moroccan MarTnid double dinars from the 13th and 14th cen-
turies; and Fätimid tari struck in Sicilian mints), five 12lh-century Almohad dirhams,
165 silver and bronze Islamic coins from the 17th to the 19th centuries (from Ottoman
Turkey and the Arabic world), and a set of very interesting silver and bronze Indian
coins from the 16th to the 18th centuries (122 pieces) as well as 15th-century Malaysian
issues.
With regard to single additions, mention should be made of a Lydian electrum
hemihekta from 610-650 BC, a gift from Jannis Hourmouziadis. This is yet
another coin from the earliest Greek issues that has been donated to the cabinet
(J. Hourmouziadis has already donated a silver stater of Croesus (561-546 BC)
from a mint in Sardis).
The modern coin collection also increased in size thanks to gifts from Fr. Janusz
Kolecki, Dalia Grimalauskaite, Maciej Taraday, and Anna Wieczorek-Taraday. As
usual, the National Bank of Poland donated contemporary collectors’ coins from
the bank’s 2016 issue.
As a result of Mirosław Kruszyński ’s generosity, 245 new pieces were added
to the cabinet’s collection of foreign medals (most of these are 19th-century French
medals) and to its collection of religious medallions. The collection of modem Polish
medals was added on to thanks to a bequest (63 medals and distinctions) to the National
Museum in Krakow from Zdzisław Żygulski Jr. (1921-2015), a former employee at
322
MATEUSZ WOŹNIAK
National Museum in Krakow
The Chronicle of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National
Museum in Krakow (2017)
In 2017, the Numismatic Cabinet had the following staff members: Dr. Hab.
Jarosław Bodzek (head of the Cabinet, ancient coinage); Anna Bochnak, M.A.
(modem coinage, varia, deposits); Anda Jaworucka-Drath (paper money); Dorota
Malarczyk, M.A. (Oriental coinage); Paulina Taradaj, M.A. (medals); and Mateusz
Woźniak, M.A. (medieval coinage).
At the end of 2017, the collections of the Numismatic Cabinet consisted of
110,834 pieces (117,999 pieces including deposits). In comparison to the previous
year, the overall size of the collections increased by 1,330 pieces.
Among the additions, particular attention should be paid to a group of Middle
and Far Eastern coins from a donation by Mirosław Kruszyński. The coinage in
this group includes 12 gold coins (10th- and llth-century dinars from the Abbäsid
and Fätimid dynasties; Moroccan MarTnid double dinars from the 13th and 14th cen-
turies; and Fätimid tari struck in Sicilian mints), five 12lh-century Almohad dirhams,
165 silver and bronze Islamic coins from the 17th to the 19th centuries (from Ottoman
Turkey and the Arabic world), and a set of very interesting silver and bronze Indian
coins from the 16th to the 18th centuries (122 pieces) as well as 15th-century Malaysian
issues.
With regard to single additions, mention should be made of a Lydian electrum
hemihekta from 610-650 BC, a gift from Jannis Hourmouziadis. This is yet
another coin from the earliest Greek issues that has been donated to the cabinet
(J. Hourmouziadis has already donated a silver stater of Croesus (561-546 BC)
from a mint in Sardis).
The modern coin collection also increased in size thanks to gifts from Fr. Janusz
Kolecki, Dalia Grimalauskaite, Maciej Taraday, and Anna Wieczorek-Taraday. As
usual, the National Bank of Poland donated contemporary collectors’ coins from
the bank’s 2016 issue.
As a result of Mirosław Kruszyński ’s generosity, 245 new pieces were added
to the cabinet’s collection of foreign medals (most of these are 19th-century French
medals) and to its collection of religious medallions. The collection of modem Polish
medals was added on to thanks to a bequest (63 medals and distinctions) to the National
Museum in Krakow from Zdzisław Żygulski Jr. (1921-2015), a former employee at