New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1928, Page 2

W 1 ‘"ln PfllISH G“INS {town, people began rebuilding th { thought to the buried treasure with- homes, but no one knew or gave in the little altar, and for centuries it remained untouched. After the coins were found by the Some Owned by Fr. Bartkowski! Date From 14th Centary - Rev. Stephen Bartkowski, pastor | of Holy Cross church on Farmington | avenue, is the owner of a collection | of 300 coins centuries old which | were minted when Poland was at the zenith of its power in the OId | World. The collection came fnto his po session a few years ago through his | brother Rev. Julian Bartkowski, | pastor of a parish in Lekno, in the | Posen district of Poland, where the | treasure was found. | When Rev. Father Bartkowski's brother was assigned to the parish ; 1 | | | 1 | 1 1 | | ! Rov, Stephen Bartkowski in this age old town, he found the church nearly in ruins and report- ed to his superior that it needed repeirs badly. A coiimittee of build- ers and engincers w:re commission- | ed to investigate an/! found that the complaints of the pricst were just, whereupon workmen were sent and | the Job of reconstructing the edifice | some 600 years old was begun. | It was necessary to remove cne of | the side altars in order to get at the | floor and it was while the workmen | were dismantling this altar that they came upon the valuable col- lection of coins which was buried in | a small chest under the table of the altar. | Coins 533 Years Old | The workmen reported their find to the pastor and a few days later he wrote to the directorate of the National Museum in Posen, who sent numismatists to Lekno to make an examination of tme coins. They | found them to be authentic and | then proceeded to PoserMwith them to hold o consultation with re- searchers and historians as to what could be the reason for this com- | paratively large amount of old coins | buried in the altar for so many cen- turies. A study of the coins revealed | that tha oldest coin was of the time | of Ladislaus Jagello, who reigned in | the years 1396-98, and the newest of | Stephen Batory, 1576-86, The trea- sure evidently was buried during the interegnum after the death of King Batory. The kings of Poland in that perlod | were elected and after the death of | King Batory two years elapsed be- | fore the next king was elected and | in the meantime much disorder was | evident in parts of Poland. Lekno was in constant nger of being at- | tacked by the Prussians who finally | raided the town, killing most of the | inhabitants and burning practically | all buildings. The inbabitants sens- | ing the danger lLeld a hu d con- sultation and decided to c all valuables and leave the town. There were rome, howe who remained to defend the place of their birth and their belongings. Knowling that the odds against them would be tremendous they collected all moncy and entrusted it to the | priest, who buried it in the a r. Came the avalunche of the ¥ af all who had knowledse whercabouts of the buvied were massacroes, Buricd Treasure Forgo'ten When peace came into this little money workmen and their authenticity was ascertained, part of jt was given to the National Museum in Posen and ‘Warsaw, while the rest remaineg in ! the hands of the present pastor who later sent it to his brother in this country. The collection is interesting in a sense that every coin depicts a part of the history of Poland from the year 1386 to 1586. It would be difficult to take each coin seperate- ly and describe it minutely. The fact remains t they tell their story of | some districts which today are questioned by European Powers, the question being whether they belong | to Poland or Germany. Each coin bears the Polish eagle with an in-| scription in Latin, telling what Po- | lish king was reigning at the time the particular coin was minted. On the other side of each coin is en- gravad the coat of arms of the| dutehy or province where it was l¢ ,[’ gal tander, and the name of the Ger- | man prince or duke, who was its| monarch, but who was a vassal of the King of Poland. A coin of the city of Danzig, which today is a free port, bears on one side lts coat of arms or the emblem of the reigning prince, while the other side reveals the crowned Polish eagle with the | inscription of th reigning king, an- | other coin reveals the story of Bo- | hemian and Hungarian cities and provinces that came under the jur- isdiction of the Polish kings. The coins are irregular in propor- tion, showing that in those times they were all minted by hand and they vary in size. The small in the collection is about three-cighths of an inch in diameter, while the largest is about one and one-quarter | inches in diameter. The inscriptions | |on practically all of them are leg-| ible and Gothic lettering can be distinguished. The coins bear no year in which they were minted and | the approximate date can be only determined by the names of the reigning monarchs. According to the numismatists the colns were stamped in the following places: Cracow, Thorn, Danzig, El- bing, Vilna, Posen, Koeningsberg, Goerlle, Breslau, Lignitz, Malbourg, Kuestrin, Riga, Mainz, and several other German mints. Most of the coins are about the thickness of le- | gal stationery and are made of cither silver or copper. Coins of the following rulers are | in the collection of Rev. Father Bartkowski: Polish and Lituanian coins during the relgn of Ladislaus Jagello, 1386- 1434; Ladislaus Warnenczyk, 1434- 44; Casimir Jagellonczyk, 1447-92; John Olbrachyy, 1492-1501; ..lexan- der, 1501-06; Sigismund 1, 1506.48 sigismund August, 1548-72; Stephen Batory, 1576-86. Prussian coins, of provinces which paid tribute to Poland and wers under the sovereignty of Polish kings during the reign of Grand Master Michael von Sternberg, 1414- 22; of Paul von Russdorf, 1422-41; Henry von Plauen, 1467-70; Henry von Richtenberg, 1470177; von Truchsess, 1459-97; Albert von Hohenzollern, 1525-69; Albert Fred- crick, 1568-78. Bohemian coins of the Ludovicus Jagellon Ferdinand of Austria imillian 1I, 1564-76; 1576-1612. Silesian colns, during the reign of Frederick 1T of Breslau, 1495-547; John Brandenburg von Kueratein, 15 1. Hungarian during the time of Matthew Korwin, 1458-90. time of 1516-26; | 26-64; Max- | Rudolf, 1I, | T climbs behind the Martin | MARY ANN JOINS ARMY OF DRIVERS Andy Considerably Upset by| Her Antics With Car | (CONTRIBUTED) Dear Susan: a third lesson on how to drive a | fivver and as soon as I get my driv- er's license I'll take you for a spin and will try to bring you back all together, and not in sections. Re- turning safely from a joy ride now-: {adays ain't as easy as it sounds as | they's so many drivers on the road | that thinks a gas buggy is some- thing to be run ragged and never lets | up on the gas excepting when driv- ing into a filling station, garage or a parking place. I'll tell you about my driving so's vou'll have confidence in me when 1 takes you out, although Andy says I ain’t got any more use for the rules of the road than a long distance swimmer has for a bathtub and what 1 don't know about handling a car would fill a large clothes basket and | they'd stijl be room for the janitor's | wash. Andy winds up the flivver and asks if I'm all set and for answer ering wheel | as proud and happy as the jane that's just signed the certificate that | entitles her to a permanent meal ticket. At first the flivver had a pick-up like a steam shovel but after I re- lcases the emergency brake we goes down East strect like its none of sombody’s business until I realizes I'm giving the speedometer high blood pressure by stepping on the! gas more than any dumbbell should. | “Give the accelerator and your hoof a rest by easing up on them,” cau- tions Andy, “or a speed cop on a motor bike is liable to page us and what he'll band us won't be com- pliments and a bid to dinner.” “Aw, be yourself on some other street,” I grins, taking a corner like a star boarder takes a second helping of anything, “a cop could never catch us with only one motoreycle, he'd hafta use two." Honest, Susan, I hope to fall asleep on your front doorstep if a speed cop doesn’t appear from no- | where and tells me to pull over to the curb and I don’t mean some time tomorrow.” I guess this cop knew I was @ green driver and instead of pawling me out” he simply states, “You were golng 40 miles per hour. Seeing he was a good natured cop { I hands him my best Sunday smile , “I thought I was going ahout 20. You musta looked at the speedometer twice and that's how come you got 40.” The cop grins like its all in the day's work, waves { me on and says, “Years ago the good old’ spring time gave us green pas- | tures but now it gives us green driv- | ers.” This lad certainly knew his poetry. ! Anyway I heeds the warning and | moves along just fast enough to keep outa the way of the car behind us when all of & sudden a large truck gets in our way. 1 jams on the brakes but they don't hold any ;more than a borrowed vanity case, Luckily I had presence of mind | enough to give the wheel a quick | twist which almost stands the fivver upon end and we leaves the high- ,way., The flivver tries to throw us | for a row of lace curtaing by sway- ing from side to side like its got the heeby-jeebies in four different lan- Yesterday my fella Andy gave me|* | accurate —_— il DR. JOHN F. KEAVENY All these colns have been found | to be authentic and the National : Muscum as waved a letter migned |, 4 B0 SIS SO (O G by the dircctor, which fs in the pose | 10C (P A% SEAS Ji00 inder 16, seasion of Rev. Father Bartkowskl. | roung it, or make an attempt to : X hurdle it. Andy somehow manages bl JoRgnIy |to stop the fiivver, but not before . Watcrbury, April 21 UP—James A. |, goes through the fence like soda Gufin, charler member and past | coo % hough o straw, “Gee,” ! dent of tho Turners Fulls Ro- [y oqines Andy, wiping the sweat tary club, was unanimously chosen | .o his map while removing wood district gn\'«rnor at II\E. £pring con- ;bphnlcrl from the )‘flvhi\lfil‘"fl 8ys- | ference of the 30th district of Rotary {tem, "if this wagon had wings in jRoIE ek ey | place of fenders we woulda gone over | ———— | that fence for a cross country flight | without disturbing a picket.” We | paid the fence damages, Susan | which led Andy to remark that ho bhought the flivver on the installment has removed his office to | plan but is still paying for the up- Commercial Trust Bullding | keep, and how! , || Telephone 4377-2 Suite 502 As "U;“m, 7 guages. Dental Surgeon Mickey (Hixn:;elf ) McGuire G L 010N THINK HE HAD THE ERVE a AT NINE UP TAIS YARP FOR ME HEY'!FELLERS! EDPIE MAS CROSSED MCGUIRE'S By Fontaine Fox PEAPLINE ! 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