Notae Numismaticae - Zapiski Numizmatyczne (14.2019)

RECENZJE / REVIEWS

MARIUSZ MIELCZAREK
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Poland. Vol. I: The Archaeological and
Ethnographical Museum in Łódź. Part 3: Bosporus-Cilicia, The Polish Academy
of Arts and Sciences, The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, Kraków-Warszawa2016, 122 pages, 42 plates, indices;
ISBN 978-83-7676-258-6
After a gap lasting almost two decades, we now have, thanks to funding
from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education’s National Programme for
the Development of the Humanities, the next (that is, the second) part of the Sylloge
Nummorum Graecorum on the collection of Greek coins at the Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnography in Łódź.1 In order to give a full account of the collection of this
institution in Łódź, two more parts are planned. Prepared by Mariusz Mielczarek
with the assistance of Piotr Komorowski, the work currently under review covers
coinage from a geographical area that is wide in scope: from the Bosporan Kingdom
(182 pieces) to Colchis (4 pieces), Pontus (14 pieces), Paphlagonia (11 coins),
Bithynia (17 pieces), Mysia (34 pieces), Troas (6 pieces), Aeolis and Lesbos
(16 pieces), Ionia and its islands (42 pieces), Caria and its islands (35 pieces), Lidia
(6 pieces), Phrygia (8 pieces), Lycia (1 piece), Pamphylia (5 pieces), and Pisidia
(10 pieces) all the way to Cilicia (4 pieces). Altogether, the work includes 396 coins.
The catalogue proper is preceded by a short description of the history of the part of
the collection that is covered in the work. Here we learn about the origin of particular
coins from private collections that were put together before World War II in what are
today Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Iraq - or, in general, the Middle East - which
this Łódź museum attained in the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. One should mention
here the collections of K. Zbichorski (1907-1983), W. Głuchowski (1904-1977),
W. Szczygielski (1905-1989), J. Mękicka, A. Domaradzki (1896-1978), A. Klein,
and R. Kowalczyk. The author then indicates that some of the coins covered in
the book come from finds.
Coins from the Bosporan Kingdom make up the largest group of coins and
the one with the greatest value. With the exception of a few silver pieces, these
are mostly bronze coins, struck in the name of the Bosporan poleis Panticapaeum
(71 pieces) and Phanagoria (9 pieces), as well as coins of the rulers of Cimmerian
Bosporus (102 pieces). Some of the Bosporan coins mentioned above are subject
to a new elaboration, one that is based on the standard of the SNG, while others
are covered via a republication of pieces that have already been described by

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The first part was published in 1998. Cf. MIELCZAREK 1998.