{"id":352,"date":"2015-09-11T05:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T03:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archeologia.t33.pl\/2015\/09\/11\/gabinet-numizmatyczny\/"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T10:19:04","slug":"gabinet-numizmatyczny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/dzialy-merytoryczne-opisy\/gabinet-numizmatyczny\/","title":{"rendered":"Numismatics Room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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W zwi\u0105zku z remontem Domu Przyrodnik\u00f3w, Gabinet Numizmatyczny dzia\u0142a w ograniczonym zakresie<\/strong>, aktualnie wypo\u017cyczenie zabytk\u00f3w jest niemo\u017cliwe, podobnie jak wykonanie kwerendy.<\/span><\/h2>\n
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When was the Numismatics Room established?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Numismatics Room (the department which deals with coins and other objects used in place of money) was set up in 1981, when Gda\u0144sk Archaeological Museum acquired a hoard of 915 coins found in Tczew-Suchostrzygi.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s in the department\u2019s collection?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the years, we have amassed a collection of various types of coins, including bracteates (one-sided coins) and klippe (non-round coins made from square blanks).
\nThe collection also features medals, coin weights and scale pans from coin balances, as well as jettons (small discs used as counters) and tokens.
\nBut it doesn\u2019t end there. There are also some extremely rare specimens in our collection, which have never previously been noted in the literature or for which there are no comparisons in Poland. One such example is a large, recently acquired assemblage of early medieval coins, including bracteates bearing the inscription SAMBOR and an image of an orant (a praying figure).
\nCurrently, the collection numbers around 11,000 items.<\/p>\n

How are artefacts acquired?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of our numismatics (coins, medals, tokens, etc.) come from excavations carried out by Gda\u0144sk Archaeological Museum and from donations and bequests.
\nSince the early 1990s, the Archaeological Museum has excavated multiple sites in Gda\u0144sk\u2019s Old Town (Stare Miasto) and Main Town (G\u0142\u00f3wne Miasto) and on Granary Island (Wyspa Spichrz\u00f3w). This work is usually prompted by building developments, of which there have been particularly many in recent years. These archaeological excavations yield thousands of artefacts, including numismatic finds.
\nOur department houses numismatics that can be described as small change (coins of low value), dating from the 14th to the 20th century. Older coins from the Roman or early medieval period are rarer in our collection.
\nWhen it comes to donations and bequests, the Numismatics Room usually receives single specimens and small hoards (numbering several coins). Two hoards have been donated by the regional heritage protection office (Wojew\u00f3dzki Konserwator Zabytk\u00f3w w Gda\u0144sku). The last such donation was the Ko\u017aliny Hoard, which was discovered in a church spire. It featured a set of coins from the times of Augustus III, Wilhelm I and II, and the Free City of Danzig.<\/p>\n

What condition are the artefacts in?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some of the numismatics in our collection had already become worn and damaged during their use in the historic past. They often show signs of having been intentionally bent, broken or cut, and some even have holes punched in them.<\/p>\n

Where do the artefacts come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The items in our collection come from all over Europe (apart from its southernmost fringes). They point to Gda\u0144sk\u2019s contacts (primarily trade links) with Portugal, Spain, France, England, Scotland, Denmark, the Low Countries, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Russia and many other countries. We also have solitary specimens from beyond the Old World (i.e. Europe, Asia and Africa) in the form of items from Mexico and Australia, though these were made in the modern era.<\/p>\n

Fakes in our collection<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forgeries are numerously represented in the numismatic collection. The majority are counterfeit silver coins made of copper or bronze with a surface coating of white metal. Once they had been recognised as fakes, coins of this type were broken, cut or perforated and then removed from circulation.<\/p>\n

Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n

Numismatics Room
\nBeata Ceynowa
\nb.ceynowa@archeologia.pl
\ntel. +48 58 322 21 13<\/p>\n

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\"001DN\"
\n 1. Silver bracteate of the Second Gate type, Teutonic Prussia, c. 1335\u20131345.<\/span>
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\"002DN\"
\n 2. Silver bracteate bearing the inscription SAMBOR, Gda\u0144sk Pomerania, 1190s.<\/span>
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\"003DN\"
\n 3. Brass scale pan of a coin balance featuring a central stamp, France, 1350\u20131400.<\/span>
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\"004DN\"
\n 4. A set of 49 brass jettons from Furth, 18th\u201319th century.<\/span>
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\"005DN\"\"006DN\"<\/p>\n

5. Bronze follis of Valentinian II, Roman Empire, 4th century AD.<\/span>
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\"007DN\"\"008DN\"
\n 6. Silver shilling of Michael K\u00fcchmeister von Sternberg, Teutonic Prussia, 1414\u20131422.<\/span>
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\"009DN\"\"010DN\"
\n 7. Brass coin-weight for gold coins with an image of St Michael the Archangel slaying a dragon, 16th century.<\/span>
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\"011DN\"\"012DN\"
\n 8. Gold half gulden of Maximilian I, Groningen, 1486\u20131518.<\/span>
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\"013DN\"\"014DN\"
\n 9. Three silver kreutzers of Leopold I, minted in Vienna, 1664.<\/span>
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W zwi\u0105zku z remontem Domu Przyrodnik\u00f3w, Gabinet Numizmatyczny dzia\u0142a w ograniczonym zakresie, aktualnie wypo\u017cyczenie zabytk\u00f3w jest niemo\u017cliwe, podobnie jak wykonanie kwerendy.   Kiedy powsta\u0142 Gabinet? Gabinet Numizmatyczny \u2013 dzia\u0142 Muzeum Archeologicznego zajmuj\u0105cy si\u0119 monetami oraz innymi znakami pieni\u0119\u017cnymi \u2013 zosta\u0142 powo\u0142any w roku 1981, gdy do zbior\u00f3w Muzeum Archeologicznego trafi\u0142 skarb 915 monet z Tczewa-Suchostrzyg. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dzialy-merytoryczne-opisy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeologia.you2.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}