[{"id":115833,"title":"Numismatic Museum, Athens","subtitle":"The Petros Z. Saroglos Collection: Macedonia","description":"Τhe Petros Ζ. Saroglos Collection came to the Numismatic Museum of Athens as a use-loan by the Officers Club of the Armed Forces in July 1998. The final transaction was sealed with the signing of the relevant contract by the Minister of Culture. Earlier, during the decade of the 1960's, there had been continuous negotiations by representatives of the Archaeological Service with the Administration of the Officers Club in an effort to find a satisfactory solution to the question of cataloguing and making scholarly use of the Collection, which was held in a safebox of the Νational Bank of Greece. Through adverse circumstances, however, these negotiations had not been fruitful.\u003cbr\u003eThe Saroglos Collection, comprising 2000 ancient Greek coins, was occasionally brought to the attention of international scholarly circles of the time, thanks to the extraordinary courtesy of its aristocratic owner, always ready to promote the study of the coinage of the Greek cities and, especially, that of the kings of Macedonia and of the Hellenistic rulers. The presence of a large number of coins of Alexander the Great in the Ρ .Ζ. Saroglos Collection came about, indeed; not only through the special interest of the collector in the mints of the conqueror of the Achaemenid kingdom, but also a result of the period during which the Collection was made. As a retired artillary lieutenant from 1897 on, Ρ .\\Ζ. Saroglos collected these coins through purchases .abroad and in Greece during the first two decades of the 20th century .\u003cbr\u003eΡ .Ζ. Saroglos experienced with intensity the beginning of a particularly dramatic century as a member of the Ethniki Etaireia and a sponsor of the Macedonian Struggle. Always a philhellene in the true sense of the word, he bequeathed his vast fortune and his various valuable collections to the Ministry of Land and Sea.\u003cbr\u003eAs a veritable child of his epoch, an epoch marked by the quest for and the illusions of the Megale Idea (the Great Idea), Petros Ζ. Saroglos served in his own way the idea of a Hellenism beyond the limits of \"Greece of the Melouna border\". It was, no doubt, Good Fortune that allowed him to die in June of 1920, before the Asia Minor Catastrophe, a citizen (de facto, not yet de iure) of \"Greece of the five seas and the two continents\".\u003cbr\u003e(from the preface)\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b118423.jpg","isbn":"960-404-065-0","isbn13":"978-960-404-065-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":7634,"name":"Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum · Greece","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'graecorum' 'greece' 'nummorum' 'sylloge'","created_at":"2017-04-13T01:58:41.404+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T01:58:41.404+03:00"},"pages":146,"publication_year":2005,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"47.0","price_updated_at":"2007-03-19","cover_type":"Σκληρό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":441,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":118423,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/numismatic-museum-athens.json"},{"id":141197,"title":"The Coins from Maroneia and the Classical City at Molyvoti","subtitle":"A Contribution to the History of Aegean Thrace","description":"Compared with the showy and carefully selected silver and gold coins that typically represent Greek coinage inmost book illustrations and museum displays, coins recovered in archaeological excavations can be difficult to appreciate. By their very nature, excavation coins are unselected. Almost all are made of bronze, a metal that readily corrodes when buried in the ground. Apart from any damage by corrosion, many are heavily worn or broken. Because they were often lost and have been recovered in huge numbers, they can be extremely repetitive. And yet, while this might make them tedious from a museum or connoisseur's point of view, for the ancient historian the very quantity of such data is a rare blessing. Their abundance and the even more important criterion of provenience -the circumstance that every excavated coin was used at a particular site and so is tied in some way to the site's imperfectly known history- make these coins an invaluable documentary source for the history of the habitation in question.\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, despite a century and a half of extensive archaeological activity in Greece, it is disappointing how few of the country's excavations have produced published numismatic reports. A recent survey of Greek coins found in archaeological excavations lists only nine ancient cities and sanctuaries in Greece for which there exists a published account of excavated coins. Moreover, all but one of these records pertain to excavations that were run by foreign archaeologists and published by foreign scholars. The shining exception was Zone, a little known urban site on the Aegean coast of Thrace that was excavated under the auspices of the Greek Archaeological Society and whose coins were summarily listed and reviewed in a 1996 article by Mina Galani-Krikou. A third of these 2.229 coins are the critically important coins of Zone that made possible the site's very identification.\u003cbr\u003eIn the present volume Selene Psoma of the Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity (National Hellenic Research Foundation), Chryssa Karadima and Domna Terzopoulou of the XIX Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Ministry of Culture) now give us not only a welcome second publication of site coins excavated in Aegean Thrace but one in extended monograph form with commentaries and full attention to numismatic detail. Notably, the study treats the coins from two sites, one that has long been recognized as Maroneia, the other a previously unidentified city site on Cape Molyvoti. 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