Constantin Orghidan Collection

The most representative assembly
ever made in Romania
by a numismatic collector

Histria or Istros

Greek colony or polis near
the mouths of the Danube

Histria or Istros

The earliest documented currency
on Romanian territory was
an 8-gram silver drachma,
issued by the city around 480 BC

Thrace

Thrace designates a region bounded by
the Balkan Mountains on the north,
Rhodope Mountains and the
Aegean Sea on the south,
and by the Black Sea
and the Sea of Marmara on the east
(Map of Ancient Thrace
made by Abraham Ortelius in 1585)

Bust from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Italy). Photo Marco. Lysimachus (National Archaeological Museum, Naples)

Syracuse

Historic city in Sicily

Tyras

Remains of Roman Tyras, near the mediaeval Genoese walls of the Maurocastro

Constantin Orghidan

Romanian engineer, private collector

Greek Coins