COLECȚII PIERDUTE, COLECȚII REGĂSITE. STATERII DE TIP ALEXANDRU CEL MARE AI MARIEI GOLESCU, UN POSIBIL FRAGMENT DIN TEZAURUL DE LA ANADOL?
Lost and retrieved collections. Alexander type staters of Maria Golescu, a possible fragment of the Anadol hoard?

Summary/Abstract: Recent reexamination of our archives led us to a group of 20 gold coins (Alexander the Great and Lysimachus type staters, Late Roman solidi, several Byzantine coins and one Venetian) - a significant collection from the interwar period belonging to Maria Golescu(1897-1988). Member of the Romanian Numismatic Society from 1923, she was arrested and imprisoned for 12 years by the communist regime between 1949 and 1962, emigrating in the same year in the United Kingdom. The coins were sold to the Library of the Romanian Academy in 1963 by a close person of Maria Golescu. There are 4 Alexander-type staters from Kallatis (2; Price 897 and 914), Sardes (1; Price 2533) and Babylon (1; Price 3748). Alexander-type staters from Kallatis were extremely rare in the interwar period, coming most of them from the Anadol hoard discovered in 1895. Examining the catalogue of Hess auction from October 1903 (250 staters from Anadol hoard) we notice that there were 14 samples Price 914 from Kallatis (nos. 90-103), only 1 illustrated (nr. 96) and different from Maria Golescu’s same type stater. 30 years later further 60 staters from the Anadol hoard were sold in Schlessinger auction from February 1935, only the type Price 897 being represented by a single coin (nr. 671) again different from that coming from Maria Golescu’s collection. Although we don’t have any direct evidence yet, but only indirect and circumstantial ones, we think there is a good chance that they came from the Anadol hoard (IGCH 866).

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