Odessa Numismatics Museum
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Odessa Numismatics Museum is the first Ukrainian historical museum of new type whose tasks became studying the history of coinage and money circulation of the Ukrainian state and also preservation and demonstration the major historical relics belonging to ancient history and culture of the Northern Black Sea Region and Rus-Ukraine.
The museum has two branches located in the central part of Odessa city:
- Grecheskaya Str., 33 — Exposition of antique and medieval coins, old and modern Ukrainian banknotes;
- Deribasovskaya Str., 16 — the gallery "Mint" (Монетный двор, "Monetny dvor"; literal tranlation: "Monetary Yard", the Russian term for "mint") — Exposition of antique coins and ceramics of the Northern Black Sea Region, money and fine art plastics of the Kievan Rus, modern coins and substitutes of money of Ukraine.
The museum collection includes over 2,500 coins and other relics from different historical epochs: antique, medieval, to new and newest time including the period of independent development of the Ukrainian state. The core of the collection are ancient coins minted by various cities-states and Bosporus Kingdom existed in the Northern Black Sea Region for almost one thousand years. There are many unique and rare coins of scientific interest.
[edit] Publications
The reports about the museum's research are published in the Bulletin of the Odessa Numismatics Museum.
Results of Odessa Numismatics Museum's scientific-research activity have been embodied in a regular periodical – “Bulletin of the Odessa Numismatic Museum”. The Bulletin’s issues include materials concerning publication of unique and rare coins of ancient cities of the Northern Black Sea Region , analysis of the coins’ features (typology, semantics of images, chronology, weight data, metallic formulation) synthesized with historical events, economy and worldview of the past times. Such publications introduce into research practice previously unknown findings and enrich the Corpus of coins of our Region . The Odessa Numismatic Museum’s research practice continues almost bicentennial traditions of renowned Odessa researchers-numismatists and contributes its share to the scientific investigation of the Northern Black Sea Coast history. In 2004 were published "Collected Articles of Numismatics of the Northern Black Sea Region". There're included 19 ussues of "Bulletin of the Odessa Numismatics Museum" as result of Museum's scientific-research activity for five years. Necessity of this edition has been caused by two reasons: constantly growing interest to ancient numismatics of Northern Black Sea Region both in Ukraine and abroad and also that's why all issues of "Bulletin" were carried out as not commercial issues in small circulations and today became rare books. In tables there're resulted images of 363 coins, among them there're many rare and unique specimens.
