The National Museum in Cracow, Catalogues of the Collection, Volume II, ANCIENT COINS, 1 . The Coins of the Roman Republic and History of the Collection, National Museum in Cracow 1982
1. Foreword by Tony Hackens ...
2. An Outline of the History of the Ancient Coin Collection of the National Museum in Cracow by Stefan Skowronek .
3. The Arrangement of the Catalogue by Leslaw Morawiecki .
4. Abbreviations .............
5. Catalogue .............
6. Indices of legends, types and moneyers .....
7. Concordance ............
8. Plates ..............
The collection of ancient coins of the National Museum in Cracow, was be?gun, in the latter half of the nineteenth century and has grown gradually through gifits, endowments, legacies, purchases from private collectors and archaeological finds. These have given rise to a separate collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, which has been attached to the collection of Polish and foreign coins and medals, the nucleus of which is comprised by the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski's collection. Among the earliest acquisitions we must mention the modest gifts of Wladyslaw Olewski (1887) and of Marian Gorski (1892), consisting in each case of a single Roman coin. In the course of time the Coin Collection was enriched by collections both qualitatively and quantitatively superior, among which special mention must be given to the legacy of Greek coins left by a Jagiellonian University Profesor Franciszek Piekosinski in 1909?1910, and the gifts of Roman coins presented by Henryk Maii-kowski of Winnogora (1908), Izabella Starzeriska of Koiomyja (1909), Michal Greim of Kamieniec Podolski (1911), and Franciszek Biesiadecki of Cracow (1925).
The collection of ancient coins was considerably increased after World War II, when the Coin Collection gained rich donations of Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins thanks to Karol Halama of Zywiec (1947), Leon Kostka (1949) and Andrzej and Jadwiga Kleczkowski (1960). The collection was further increased by purchases made from private col?lections: in 1964 from Marian Gumowski, a professor at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Toruri, and again in 1973 from the collection of Tadeusz Kalkowski of Cracow. In 1964 the Museum of Industry in Cracow was closed down and its collections of Roman coins were passed to the National Museum. In 1950 the Czartoryski Museum became a separate department of the National Museum, and thus 3000 ancient coins which had belonged to the former composed a separate collection owing its existence primarily to the purchases of Wladyslaw Czartoryski. r>; Amongst the exhibits of the Coin Collection of the National Museum in Cracow there are also ancient coins discovered during archaeological re?searches untertaken on Polish teritory. This group of acquisitions was begun with a gift of Roman denarii discovered at over a dozen sites scattered throughout East Galicia, Wolyri and Podole, and was offered to the...
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