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Vespasian, I century, silver, denar

 

Valentinian III, V century, gold, solidus

 

Constantius II, IV century, bronze, AE

 

 

Deposit of Hungarian coins, Gaj, XIII/XIV century

 

Serbian Medieval coins,Stefan Dragutin, XIII century, silver, dinar

 

Austrian coin, Ferdinand I, XVI century, silver, thaler

 

 

Deposit of folles, Ban. Palanka, IV century

 

The Numismatic Collection

The Town Museum in Vršac is the only one which has a separate, systematized numismatic collection on the territory of Banat .

As far as in 1882, the finds from 3 treasures of bronze money from the 4th century in Veliki Rit near Vršac (about 3,000 objects) were the motive for the Vršac municipality to establish a museum in the same year.

Today the numismatic collection contains the collection of coins, medals and bank-notes

 

The history of the collection

1894-1942 - the first acquisitions were recorded in 1894 as gifts. In this period Felix (Bodog, Srećko) Milleker worked as the curator of the museum, and he recorded in writing, besides other things, the finds of money in the old inventory book. These finds are related to the entire area of the South Banat, which is now divided between Serbia (smaller, western part) and Romania. Although there were no experts for money, Milleker assiduously filled the collection with the money and gifts, by purchasing, exchanging from the various periods, as well as from the contemporary to him, the Austro-Hungarian period.

In the period after 1945, the increase of the collection was in connection with the name of R.Rašajski (a curator in the museum from 1945-1979), who, having an extremely developed cooperation with the townsmen, enriched the collection, especially the collection of ancient money, with the finds from the field.

1991 – the collection was separated and has been professionally and independently processed since then. Ljiljana Bakić, a curator, manages this collection.

 

Researches

The area of research is the south Banat, which spreads between the two rivers, the Tamiš and the Danube in the west and south, and in the east it is bordered by the state frontier with Romania . The first finds of money from this region were recorded in 1861, and later, in the older literature they were noted together with the other finds. The collection covers a wide time period, since the appearance of money in this region – the end of the 4th century BC. till the present-day. The collection has been published professionally (beginning with the ancient collection). It has been filled with the acquisitions from the newer archeological researches (Židovar), as well as with the money of modern times.


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Collections
  • The ancient collection (the 4th century BC till the beginning of the 5th century)

    The collection contains the individual finds and treasures of the Greek, Hellenistic, Roman republican and imperial money, made of bronze, gold and silver. The most significant is the part of the treasure of the Roman bronze money from the 4th century, which consists of about 2,500 specimens.

 

  • The collection from the Middle Ages ( V-XV century)

    It contains the individual funds and treasures of the Byzantine money, Serbian mediaeval, Hungarian, frizatic, Slavonian, Bulgarian money. The coining in silver was the most usual. The most significant part are the treasures of the Hungarian money from the 12th to 15th century, which contain about 22,000 specimens.

 

  • The collection of money from the European countries (XVI-XVIII)

    Covers the period from the fall of Banat under the Turkish domination, from 1552–1717
    The collection is made up of money from different geographical origin and nominals: Turkey , Austria , Poland , Hungary , Venice , Dubrovnik , Holland and others.

  • The collection of Austro-Hungarian money (XIX-beg. of XX century)

    The money from the period of Austro-Hungarian monarchy (1867-1918) is very numerous, and it is understandable, when we take into consideration that our region belonged to the Hungarian part of the monarchy. The coining in metal and bank-notes from the Principality and the Kingdom of Serbia (period of the Obrenovićs and Karađorđevićs) were less represented.

    We can single out the local bank-notes from our region. During the years of revolution (1848-1849), due to the shortage of money in circulation the town of Bela Crkva issued its local bank-notes of 6, 10 and 20 kreutzers.

    A pharmacist, Josip Daubner, also issued his owh money in Uljma (1916). Special certificates, with different marks of value and date were also issued in the same town. During the First World War some private grocer's printed their own subsidiary, paper money in Vršac.

 

  • The collection of modern money (1918 till the present-day)

    It contains different kinds of coins and paper money from the period of Kingdom, the securities, the occupational money, the post-war money, money from ex-Yugoslavia, together with the period of hyperinflation (1992-1994), as well as the money from the present state of Serbia and Montenegro , formed in 2003.

    We can emphasize with pride that a citizen of Vršac, a painter Paja Jovanović, shaped artistically the bank-note of 1000 dinars, which bears the date 1.December 1931, and it was put into circulation on 1.January 1933. The portrait of a famous woman was shown on it for the first time in our banking, and it was t he portrait of the queen, Marija Karađorđević.

 

THE CITY MUSEUM OF VRŠAC
Feliksa Millekera 19, 26300 Vršac, Serbia

Ljiljana Bakić
Curator of Numismatic Collection

Telephone: + 381 13 838 053
E-mail: bakicljiljana@hotmail.com

Curriculum vitae
Personal data
Born 20.03.1955. Vršac, Serbia
Education:
Graduated: Classical Archaeology, Philosophy University at Belgrade (1980)
M.A. in progress ( Fourth Century Coin  Hoards from Banat)

Employment:  
Archaeology inventory in Vršac museum 1988-1990.
Curator of Numismatic Collection  from 1991 to nowdays.
Curator of Numismatic Collection from  Greek Coinage to nowdays including coins, medals, banknotes, orders, tokens and others items. The systematically acquired collection since the establishment of the museum (1882)  consists of about 16000 items.The Numismatic collection like independent Department is under specialized curator from 1991. This Department  collected, preserved and studied numismatic, monetary history, coinage and banking on Serbian part of Banat territory (formely part of integral Banat in Austro-Hungary today divide into three countries: Serbia, Romania, Hungary.
Work in museum: the most of time recording, cataloguing  single finds and hoards of the Museum’s collection of ancient coins and   publishing, specially coins of Roman Empire.

 

Previous museum projects


Exibitions:  (with catalogues)

-20 vekova novca u jugoistočnom Banatu (20 Centuries of Coinage in the South East Banat, 1994.

-Medalje iz zbirke Gradskog muzeja u Vršcu  XVIII-XX vek (Medals from the Collection of the Minicipal Museum of Vršac XVIII-XX centuries).

 
Current projects:

Cataloque of IV century hoards: hoards and hoarding  in contact zones with Roman Empire in Late Antiquity.


International Congresses:

XII Internationaller Numismatic Kongress ; Berlin 1997 (Hoards of 4th Century Roman Coins from the Western part of South Banat. Preliminary Report )

Crotaia ( Pula 2000, Hvar-Pharos 2004, Opatija 2007  with articles - v. in Publications nos:11,14,15).


Conferences:

XI Russian Numismatic Conference, Sanct Petersburg 2003 (?????? ??????????? ?? ???????? ??????????? ?y??? ?? ?????? (? ??????? ?? ???????? ???????x ????? ?????????? ???????????)..

XXVI Romanian  National Conference , Baile Herculane, 2009 ( An Overview of Coin Finds during the recent Archaeological Excavations of the Serbian part of the Southern Banat)

13 th Conference of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies , Berlin 2009. (Felix Milleker,s Contributrions to the Study of the Antiquities of Banat between the 1880’s and 1940’s.

Fellowships: German Archaeological Institute , Roma (August 1995); Nemzeti museum, Budapest 1999, ( January 1999), Romanian Academy in Bucuresti and Muzeul Banatului Timisoara  ( June 2000).

Languages:  English (write and speak), German (write), Franch (use in my  work).

Associations: Member of  Serbian Numismatis Society, Belgrade from 1992.

Publications:

    1. Lj. Bakić,  Rimski republikanski denari iz zbirke Narodnog muzeja u Vršcu, (Roman Republican Denarii from the Collection of the National museum in Vrsac),  Numizmatičar 16, Belgrade , National Museum in Belgrade and Serbian Numismatic Society,1993: 37- 48.
    2. Lj. Bakić,  Tri ostave rimskog bronzanog novca iz IV veka iz Narodnog muzeja u Vršcu (Three Hoards of IV Century from the National Museum in Vršac), Numizmatičar 17, Belgrade, National Museum in Belgrade and Serbian Numismatic Society,1994: 47-66.
    3. Lj.Bakić, D.Ujes, Catalogul sistematic al monedelor din colecţia Muzeului Biserica Alba, Partea I (Systematic Catalogue of Coins in the Museum Collection of Bela Crkva ), Banatica 13, Reşiţa , Muzeul Banatului Montan,1995: 171- 189.
    4. Lj. Bakić, D.Ujes, Skupni nalaz novca Ptolomeja u Narodnom muzeju u Vršcu ( A Group Find of Ptolemaic Coins in the NationalMuseum in Vršac), Numizmatičar 18/19, Belgrade, National Museum in Belgrade and Serbian Numismatic Society ,1996: 13-18.
    5. D.Ujes, Lj.Bakić, Grčki i helenistički novac iz Narodnog muzeja u Vršcu i pregled srodnih nalaza u jugoslovenskom delu Južnog Banata (Greek and Hellenistic Coins in the National Museum in Vršac and a Review of similar Finds in the Eastern Part of Southern Banat), Numizmatičar 18/19, Belgrade,  National Museum in Belgrade and Serbian Numismatic Society 1996: 19-30.
    6. Lj. Bakić, Imitacije makedonskih tetradrahmi iz zbirke Narodnog muzeja u Vršcu  (Imitation of Macedonian Tetradrachmas from the Collection of the National Museum in Vršac), Numizmatičar 20, Belgrade, National Museum in Belgrade and Serbian Numismatic Society 1997:19-30.
    7. Lj.Bakić, Findings of Coins in the Romanian part of Banat Region in the Collection of the National museum in Vršac, Analele Banatului- Arheologie-Istorie V, Timişoara , Muzeul Banatului Timişoara ,1997: 55-61.
    8. Lj.Bakić, Predstave antičkih filozofa na antičkom novcu I,(  Images of Ancient Philosophers  on Ancient Coins I) Dinar br. 10, Belgrade ,Serbian Numismatic Society,1998:21-24.
    9. Lj.Bakić, Predstave antičkih filozofa na antičkom novcu II,( Images of Ancient Philosophers on Ancienc Coins II) Dinar br.13, Belgrade, Serbian Numismatic Society,2000:17-19.
    10. Lj.Bakić, Hoards of 4th Century Roman Coins from the Western part of South Banat. Preliminary Report ( Akten –XII Internationalen Numismatischer Kongress, Berlin 1997), Berlin 2000:746-752.
    11. Lj.Bakić, The Roman denarii hoard from the 2ndcentury A.D.from the locality of Vršac-Ludoš (Ostava rimskih denara iz II veka sa lokaliteta Vršac-Ludoš), Proceeding of the 3rd International Numismatic Congress in Croatia, Pula 2001,  Pula 2002: 13-31.
    12. Lj.Bakić,Numizmatičko odeljenje ( Numismatic Department) u : Monografija ( Gradski muzej Vršac 1882-2002) in Monography  (The Town Museum of Vršac 1882-2002), Gradski muzej Vršac , The Town Museum of Vršac, 2002, 89-107.
    13. Lj.Bakić, Aureus Dioklecijana iz zbirke vršačkog muzeja (An Aureus of Diocletian from the Collection of the National Museum in Vršac ),  Glasnik muzeja Banata 11/12, Pančevo, The Journal of Banat Museums, 2002: 47-52.
    14. Lj.Bakić, The Finds of Coins in the La Tene Settlement at Židovar.Preliminary Report . (Nalazi novca sa latenskog lokaliteta Židovar.Preliminarni Izveštaj ), Proceeding of the 4th International Numismatic Congress in Croatia, Stari Grad ( Pharos 2004),Rijeka  2005:11-19.
    15. Lj.Bakić, Nalazi novca sa lokaliteta Dupljaja-Grad ( Findings of Coins from the Medieval Site of Dupljaja –Grad),Proceeding of the 5thNumismatic Congress in Croatia, (Opatija 2007)  Rijeka 2008:11-25.
    16. Lj.Bakić, Odlikovanja Feliksa Milekera- Medalja Mađarskog Numizmatičkog Društva  (Decorations of Felix Milleker- Medal of Hungarian Numismatic Society), Journal  of Banat Museums, Pančevo 2009.
    17. Lj.Bakić,F.Milleker’s Contributions to the Study of the Antiquities of Banat between 1880’s and 1940’s. ( FIEC 2009 13 th Conference of the International Federations of t5he Societes of Classical Studies), August 24-29, 2009, Berlin (forthcoming 2010).

     

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