The catalogues of Ignacy Terlecki’s collection of ancient coins kept in the archives of the national museums of Warsaw and Krakow

Ignacy Terlecki was one of the most significant collectors of antiquities of the Black Sea northern shores. This military physician residing in the Crimea was able to form one of the most valuable private collections of this sort at the beginning of the 20th century. Particularly important was his collection of ancient coins minted in the Greek cities of the region. After the collector’s death in 1916 and as a result of the events of the October Revolution, his widow and children left the Crimea and settled in Poland. They brought to Poland Ignacy’s numismatic collection. Most of the ancient coins were sold to the National Museum in Warsaw. Some were donated by Lech Kokociński to the National Museum in Krakow. However the history of the Terlecki’s collection is much more complicated, because it is assumed that he sold part of it already in 1911. The main source for the collection composition are manuscript catalogs kept in Kerch, Warsaw and Krakow. The catalogs were compiled by Ignacy Terlecki himself but also by his son Władysław. The article discusses the catalogs of Ignacy Terlecki’s collection of Greek coins minted by the Greek cities of the northern shores of the Black Sea, kept in the National Museums in Warsaw and Krakow.