Ancient Coins from the N. K. Minko’s Collection (State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals). Part I. Asia and Egypt

Mikhail Grigorievich Abramzon; Абрамзон Михаил Григорьевич; Evgeniy Vyacheslavovich Zakharov; Захаров Евгений Вячеславович; Alexander Borisovich Nikitin; Никитин Александр Борисович; Svyatoslav Viktorovich Smirnov; Смирнов Святослав Викторович

doi:10.31857/S032103910023346-3

Ancient Coins from the N. K. Minko’s Collection (State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals). Part I. Asia and Egypt

Authors: Abramzon M.G.¹^,2, Zakharov E.V.³, Nikitin A.B.⁴, Smirnov S.V.⁵
Affiliations:
1. Institute of Archaeology, RAS
2. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University
3. State Historical Museum
4. State Hermitage Museum
5. Institute of World History, RAS
Issue: Vol 83, No 1 (2023)
Pages: 114-133
Section: Publications
URL: https://rjmseer.com/0321-0391/article/view/648586
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S032103910023346-3
ID: 648586

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Abstract

This is the first publication of ancient coins from the collection of Chelyabinsk archaeologist Nikolay K. Minko (1880–1920), stored in the State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals (Chelyabinsk). This significant collection of coins (854 pieces), mostly of silver, has not been investigated yet. Forty-nine eastern Greek coins in the Minko’s collection are of particular interest, including the coinages of centers of Asia Minor, the Seleucids, Arsacids (Parthian and Elymaean), Sasanids, Ptolemies, as well as the Roman provinces of Syria and Egypt. This material expands the corpus of Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Parthian, Elymaean, and other Greek coins in the collections of Russian museums.

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ancient Greek coins, N.K. Minko (1880–1920), numismatic collections of Russian museums, Asia Minor, Seleucids, Arsacids, Parthia, Elymais, Sasanids, Ptolemies

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Mikhail Grigorievich Abramzon

Institute of Archaeology, RAS; Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: abramzon-m@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6111-048X

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Leading Researcher of the Department of Classical Archaeology of IA RAS, Director of the Research Institute

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Evgeniy Vyacheslavovich Zakharov

State Historical Museum

Email: zakharov.evg@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5530-2231

Senior Researcher of the Numismatics Department of the GIM

Russian Federation, Moscow

Alexander Borisovich Nikitin

State Hermitage Museum

Email: zakharov.evg@gmail.com

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Department of the East of the GE

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Svyatoslav Viktorovich Smirnov

Institute of World History, RAS

Email: smirnovsv3@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9205-9493

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Department of Comparative Study of Ancient Civilizations of the IVI RAS

Russian Federation, Moscow

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