DOI Artikel:
Skowronek, Stefan: Import pochodzenia rzymskiego w zbiorach numizmatycznych Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.25235#0102
Stefan Skowronek
ROMAN IMPORT IN NUMISMATIC COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF KRAKÓW
Summary
The collections of the National Museum in Cracow include twenty Roman de-
narii, a part of the famous hoard found in 1937 at Przewodów, district of Hrubie-
szów, province of Lublin. They constitute a part of the collection of ancient coins,
offered to the Museum in 1946 by Karol Halama, an outstanding numismatist from
Żywiec. The donor has also contributed to the Museum his manuscripts - among
them, some notes concerning the hoard. These notes make it possible to reconstruct
the complete composition of the find which so far has not been properly described
in literaturę.
Halama’s notes which give the exact contents of the find are especially valuable
in view of the fact that the hoard itself, consisting of a total of 149 coins, before 1939
was kept in the Museum at Sokal, but was dispersed during World War II. The
twenty coins mentioned above are the only ones which remain; Halama received
them from the representative of the Museum at Sokal in return form having written
the monograph on the whole find.
The Przewodów hoard forms a cohensive whole, as far as the chronology of the
individual coins is concerned. The „oldest” coin is a republican denarius from 100 —
95 B.C.; the „youngest” — a denarius of emperor Commodus from 186—187 A.D. The
find represents the category of hoards characteristic of the period of the most inten-
sive commercial expansion of the Roman Empire on our territory, and it is integrally
connected with other finds of Roman coins, very numerous in the Bug river region.
In this region about 40 places are known in which whole hoards or single coins were
found, amounting to a total of over 4000 specimens.
Although the object of serious studies, the Bug region -— a cohensive settlement
group representing the so-called Przework culture — is still among the less known
territories. Just such finds as the Przewodów treasure, which in the province of
Lublin belong to the most freąuently found imports, enlarge considerably our know-
ledge of these territories at the time of Roman influences. It is one of the numerous
evidences of commercial contacts between these territories and the Roman Empire
and it helps to reconstruct the process of economic development of North Slavdom
in the Bug region. At last, it provides some valuable typological specimens which
constitute an important contribution to the enlargement of the source basis of Ro-
man numismatics.
ROMAN IMPORT IN NUMISMATIC COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF KRAKÓW
Summary
The collections of the National Museum in Cracow include twenty Roman de-
narii, a part of the famous hoard found in 1937 at Przewodów, district of Hrubie-
szów, province of Lublin. They constitute a part of the collection of ancient coins,
offered to the Museum in 1946 by Karol Halama, an outstanding numismatist from
Żywiec. The donor has also contributed to the Museum his manuscripts - among
them, some notes concerning the hoard. These notes make it possible to reconstruct
the complete composition of the find which so far has not been properly described
in literaturę.
Halama’s notes which give the exact contents of the find are especially valuable
in view of the fact that the hoard itself, consisting of a total of 149 coins, before 1939
was kept in the Museum at Sokal, but was dispersed during World War II. The
twenty coins mentioned above are the only ones which remain; Halama received
them from the representative of the Museum at Sokal in return form having written
the monograph on the whole find.
The Przewodów hoard forms a cohensive whole, as far as the chronology of the
individual coins is concerned. The „oldest” coin is a republican denarius from 100 —
95 B.C.; the „youngest” — a denarius of emperor Commodus from 186—187 A.D. The
find represents the category of hoards characteristic of the period of the most inten-
sive commercial expansion of the Roman Empire on our territory, and it is integrally
connected with other finds of Roman coins, very numerous in the Bug river region.
In this region about 40 places are known in which whole hoards or single coins were
found, amounting to a total of over 4000 specimens.
Although the object of serious studies, the Bug region -— a cohensive settlement
group representing the so-called Przework culture — is still among the less known
territories. Just such finds as the Przewodów treasure, which in the province of
Lublin belong to the most freąuently found imports, enlarge considerably our know-
ledge of these territories at the time of Roman influences. It is one of the numerous
evidences of commercial contacts between these territories and the Roman Empire
and it helps to reconstruct the process of economic development of North Slavdom
in the Bug region. At last, it provides some valuable typological specimens which
constitute an important contribution to the enlargement of the source basis of Ro-
man numismatics.