Preface

Preface Andrew Meadows and Jarosław Bodzek The present volume is the fruit of a conference entitled Coinage in Imperial Space: Continuity or Change from the Achaemenid to Hellenistic Kingdoms?, organized by the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, and the National Museum in Krakow and held in Krakow from 28 June to 2 July 2017. The idea of a conference on coinage in the Achaemenid and early Hellenistic periods in the context of the information contained in ps.-Aristotle's Oeconomica was born two years earlier during a meeting between Andrew Meadows and Jarosław Bodzek at the International Numismatic Congress at Taormina. The sessions of the 2017 conference took place at the hospitable premises of the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski's Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Krakow. The event was attended by over forty outstanding specialists, students, and others interested in ancient Greek numismatics and history from Europe, Israel, and the United States. Twenty-one authors presented their papers on ancient Greek, Achaemenid, and early Hellenistic coinages of various periods and regions. This volume contains twelve of the papers. On the occasion of the conference an exhibition entitled Coin and Empire: From the Achaemenid Empire to the Hellenistic Kingdoms was opened in the Emeryk Hutten Czapski's Museum. The exhibition, which was a joint undertaking of the National Museum in Krakow and the National Museum in Warsaw, was prepared by Jarosław Bodzek and Andrzej Romanowski. It presented over 470 coins from different periods and regions from five public and three private collections. These were the National Museum in Krakow, the Princes Czartoryski Museum, the National Museum in Warsaw, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, and the District Museum in Toruń, as well as Messrs Jacek Budyn, Bartosz Aw-ianowicz, and Sławomir Fałek. The exhibition was accompanied by a booklet of the same title. The conference was financially supported by several institutions and private individuals. The editors would like to express their deepest thanks to Professor Jan Święch, then the Dean of the Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University, Professor Paweł Valde-Nowak, the director of the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Professor Andrzej Betlej, then the director of the National Museum in Krakow, Professor Jacek Majchrowski, the President of the City of Krakow, Dr Ulrich Künker of Fritz Künker GMBH & Co. KG and the International Association of Professional Numismatists, Mr Ryszard Kondrat, the Warszawskie Centrum Numizmatyczne (Warsaw Numismatic Center), Mrs Lidia Marzec, President of the Metalodlew S.A., Prymat sp. z.o.o., [End Page 1] Dr Jacek Rakoczy, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and Mr Zbigniew Rodzeń. The organization of the event would not have been possible without the support provided by the staff of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum in Krakow, The Emeryk Hutten-Czapski's Museum and the Centre for Communications and Marketing. We must also extend no less important thanks to our younger colleages, then PhD students and students, for their enthusiastic involvement in the preparation and running of the conference. First of all, we should mention here Dr Paweł Gołyźniak and Dr Barbara Zając, but also Mrs Alicja Jurkiewicz-Cora, Ms Paulina Koczwara, Dr Szymon Jellonek, Mrs Ivana Kubalova, and Mr Michał Gorczyca. Finally our deep gratitude must be expressed to the editorial committee of Phoenix for accepting this volume for publication as a special issue and especially to Professor Boris Chrubasik and Ms Judith Schutz for their help in seeing it through to press. W dniach 28 czerwca - 2 lipca 2017 r. w Krakowie miała miejsce międzynaro-dowa konferencja numizmatyczna Coinage in Imperial Space: Continuity or Change from the Achaemenid to Hellenistic Kingdoms? Organizatorami były Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie oraz Uniwersytet w Oksfordzie. W wydarzeniu wzięło udział ponad 40 wybitnych specjalistów oraz osób zainteresowanych numizmatyką grecką z Europy, Izraela i Stanów Zjednoczonych. Referaty, dotyczące poszczególnych okresów i reginów, wygłosiło 21 autorów. Obrady miały miejsce w Muzeum im. Emeryka-Hutten-Czapskiego, oddziale Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie. Z okazji konferencji Muzeum Narodowe...

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