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The next International Numis-matic Congress in Taormina – our most important event – is approaching fast and I hope you are all looking forward to it.

The INC Committee held its annual meeting on May 20-21 in Glasgow, thanks to the generous hospitality of the University of Glasgow and the Hunterian Museum. I am proud to report on our hard work and progress. First of all visit our newly revamped website www.

inc-cin.org. Our webmaster Bernward Ziegaus with the designer Monika Sidivy of Munich have done an amazing job in giving it a much needed face lift, making it easy to navigate, and they have added many new files and documents. You will find the link to the XVth International Numismatic Congress with all the necessary information for the submission of abstracts if you plan to give a paper. There apparently was some confusion about the original online forms: the abstract submission and the registration are two completely separate steps. The deadline for the first has now been postponed to 30 November, 2014. The registration can be sent later in 2015 when all the practical information about accommodations and events will be posted. Thanks to our Treasurer, Tuukka Talvio and to the generosity of our annual Committee Meeting sponsors, our finances are solid and we will be able to distribute 40 travel grants in the amount of 750 € to young scholars. The details for applying will be posted in due time.

Our income as you know comes from membership fees exclusively so I am glad to report that we approved six new applications at our meeting. We also had to terminate all memberships whose dues were in the rear for more than two years.

We received six scholarship applications, all for strong and worthwhile projects: the scholarship was awarded to

Dear INC members, dear colleagues and friends,

Dr. Carmen Arnold-Biucchi

Kathrin Siegl from the University of Vienna for her work on the medallions of the emperor Commodus. The grants-in-aid went to Dimitrios Gerothanasis from the University of Thessaloniki for his die-study of the mint of Mende, in the Chalkidike in the archaic classical period, and to George Watson from Christ’s College, Cambridge, for his research on the phenomenon of die-sharing in the Roman provincial mints of southern Asia Minor from the time of the Severans to Tacitus. Congratulations to all of them!

Our most important decision for the future of numismatics and its methodology was to grant the INC patronage to The New Landscape of Ancient Numismatics presented by Frédérique Duyrat, Directeur du Départment des Monnaies at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and Andrew Meadows, Deputy Director of The American Numismatic Society in New York. This project will greatly facilitate numismatic research and collaboration between scholars in different countries worldwide by linking every coin and every collection to a unique database and by standardizing the terminology. You will find the details below.

Cari membri del CIN, cari colleghi e amici,Vi mando il mio saluto in italiano per ricordarvi che il XVo

Congresso si avvicina a grande velocità. Spero che vi rallegrate e che progettate di parteciparvi.

Quest’anno il Comitato del CIN si riunì a Glasgow, Scozia, il 20 e 21 maggio, ospite dell’Università e del Hunterian Museum. Ringraziamo i colleghi per la loro generosità. Con vivo piacere vi comunico in breve le ultime novità e i progressi delle nostre attività.

Innanzi tutto visitate il nostro sito www.inc-cin.org, rimesso a nuovo del nostro webmaster Bernward Ziegaus con il designer Monika Sidivy di Monaco. Hanno rimodernato la presentazione e aggiunto vari documenti e articoli, rendendo la navigazione più facile e rapida. Potrete collegarvi con il sito del XV Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica di Taormina dove troverete tutte le informazioni necessarie per presentare una

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plus grand plaisir sur la chaise actuelle qui date de 1775 : la Blackstone Chair, toujours utilisé (Honorary Graduations et Cowan medal Examination), a pour assise une pierre noire de dolérite surmontée d’une couronne de laurier et du sablier qui rythme le temps de parole du candidat. Nos travaux n’en furent que plus sérieux.

Outre les préparatifs du prochain Congrès international, dont Maria Caccamo Caltabiano nous fit une présentation très complète, le Bureau a traité son ordre du jour annuel : approbation des minutes de la réunion du Bureau 2013 à Messine ; publication du Compte-Rendu du CIN vol. 60, 2013 (distribué aux membres cotisants) ; approbation des comptes 2013 et du budget prévisionnel 2014 ; examen des candidatures comme membres du CIN (6 nouvelles candidatures d’institutions) ; examen des candidatures aux bourses du CIN (cette année une bourse supplémentaire grant-in-aid a été attribuée au vu de la qualité des candidatures) ; examen des patronages du CIN à divers programmes scientifiques (un soutien spécifique pour le projet New Landscape of Ancient Numismatics a été voté). L’état très satisfaisant des finances du CIN, dû entre autres à la dématérialisation des supports de communication, site web et International Numismatic e-Newsletter – seul le Compte-Rendu reste imprimé – permet de prévoir 40 bourses de voyage d’un montant de € 750 pour les jeunes chercheurs qui se rendront au XVe Congrès international de Numismatique

comunicazione e per la registrazione. Apparentemente le prime versioni dei formulari in rete non erano chiare: per le comunicazioni e i posters, il termine per inviare un riassunto è stato prolungato fino al 30 novembre prossimo. La registrazione al Congresso è separata e può essere inviata più tardi nel 2015 quando tutte le informazioni pratiche per l’alloggio e le gite saranno aggiornate. Grazie al nostro tesoriere Tuukka Talvio e alla generosità dei vari sponsors per le nostre riunioni annuali, le nostre finanze sono ottime e ci permetteranno di offrire quaranta borse di viaggio di 750 € a giovani studiosi. Le istruzioni verranno messe sul nostro sito.

I nostri fondi, come sapete, provengono esclusivamente dalle quote d’iscrizione dei soci. Quest’anno abbiamo accolto sei nuovi membri. D’altra parte abbiamo dovuto terminare l’associazione dei membri che non hanno versato la quota da più di due anni.

Abbiamo ricevuto sei domande per la borsa di studio. Tutte le richieste presentano progetti importanti e validi: la borsa è stata assegnata a Kathrin Siegl dell’Università di Vienna per il suo studio dei medaglioni dell’imperatore Commodo, I contributi vanno a Demetrios Gerathanasis dell’Università di Thessalonica per il suo studio sulla zecca di Mende in Macedonia nell’età arcaica e classica, e a George Watson di Christ’s College, Cambridge, per le sue ricerche sul fenomeno dei conii comuni nella monetazione provinciale dell’Asia Minore del sud dall’età dei Severi a Tacito.

La nostra decisione più importante per l’avvenire della numismatica e della sua metodologia fu senz’altro quella di dare il patrocinio del CIN al New Landscape of Ancient Numismatics, presentato da Frédérique Duyrat, Direttrice del Dipartimento delle Monete della Biblioteca Nazionale di Francia, e da Andrew Meadows, Deputy Director dell’American Numismatic Society a New York. Questo progetto faciliterà enormemente la ricerca e la collaborazione tra studiosi di tutto il mondo collegando ogni collezione e ogni moneta a un’unica banca di dati e standardizzando la terminologia. Potete leggere i dettagli qui sotto.

Reports from institutions - Announcements

Réunion annuelle du Bureau du Conseil International de Numismatique Glasgow, 20-21 mai 2014Le Bureau du CIN/INC s’est réuni cette année à Glasgow, à l’invitation de Donal Bateson, Hunterian Museum. Les neuf membres du Bureau étaient présents. Nous avons retrouvé avec le plus grand plaisir le cadre du XIVe Congrès international de numismatique, l’Université de Glasgow et le Hunterian Museum, et remis nos pas dans nos traces de septembre 2009 : un cadre agréable et stimulant pour la préparation du prochain Congrès international de Taormine, 21-25 septembre 2015. Nos travaux se sont déroulés dans la salle de lecture de la Bibliothèque numismatique où trônait la Blackstone Chair, le siège où depuis la fondation de l’Université en 1451 les candidats prennent place pour leur examen oral. Par permission spéciale, notre Présidente, Carmen Arnold-Biucchi put siéger pour notre

Bureau du CIN, de g. à dr. : D. Bateson, M. Alram, P. P. Ripollès, S. Estiot, C. Arnold-Biucchi seating on the

Blackstone Chair, M. Caccamo Caltabiano, T. Talvio, B. Ziegaus, B. Zäch.

Bureau du CIN dans le Hunterian Museum


anglais, allemand, espagnol, italien et russe). Il peut s’agir de textes imprimés, de notices, de résumés de conférences, de recensions, etc., mais également toute forme de document scientifique original ou d’activité de promotion de la numismatique répondant aux critères de la recherche (apparat critique, origine des sources, etc.) et mis en ligne pour un usage collectif. Il peut s’agir de vidéos de cours ou de conférences, d’activité de gestion de sites ou de forum en ligne, de la réalisation et de la diffusion de revues électroniques de niveau international, etc.

Les candidats seront choisis en fonction de la qualité et de l’originalité de leur activité scientifique, qu’ils aient ou non déposé un dossier. Afin de faciliter le travail du jury, les candidats sont invités à envoyer au secrétaire du CEN (4, boulevard de l’Empereur B-1000 Bruxelles ou directement à [email protected]), avant le 30 septembre 2014, un bref curriculum vitae accompagné d’une liste complète des publications dans le domaine de la numismatique (sans limite de période ou de région).

La remise du prix se fera à Bruxelles au mois de décembre 2014, lors d’une séance académique au cours de laquelle le lauréat sera invité à présenter un exposé sur un sujet de son choix.

Simone SCHEERS, présidente du jury Jean-Marc DOYEN, secrétaire du jury

Call for papers: Historia Mundi 5 November 2015Historia Mundi is a periodical edited by the Medagliere of the Vatican Library, which aims to fill a gap in the field of medals in Italy. Since 2008, it has been contributing to the interest in this particular form of art. It is organized into three sections. The first one is devoted to the new acquisitions of the Medagliere; the second and the richest one to medals; and the third to coins. Since 2014, it has also contained a monograph devoted to the greatest medallists who left their mark on the world through their works.

Historia Mundi wants to provide a platform for researchers, academics and others to share their knowledge in the form of articles on numismatics. For this reason, for its fifth issue, Historia Mundi welcomes the submission of original and significant contributions. Articles submitted should not have been previously published.

Abstract submission deadline: 30th September 2014. The abstract must include last name, first name, affiliation, the title of the contribution and a brief text (500 words).

Abstract acceptance notification: 31st October 2014

Languages for contributions: Italian or English

Paper submission deadline: 30th March 2015

Paper acceptance notification: 30th April 2015

Date of publication: Historia Mundi 5 is scheduled to appear in November 2015

Send your abstract to the editorial committee at:

[email protected]

de Taormine. Les modalités de leur attribution seront diffusées bientôt.

Au cours de nos pauses, Donal Bateson nous fit visiter l’Hunterian, présenta le vaste programme en cours de rénovation et réorganisation du musée Hunter au sein de Kelvin Hall, et nous guida dans la nouvelle salle consacrée au Mur d’Antonin : particulièrement impressionnants, les distance slabs dont l’inscription indique la longueur de mur concernée et la légion ou la vexillation qui l’ont édifiée. Nous avons pu visiter aussi l’exposition Scottish Gold qui s’est tenue à l’Hunterian jusqu’au 15 juin.

Nos dîners autour de la gastronomie écossaise nous permirent de retrouver nos hôtes, Donal Bateson bien sûr, mais aussi Sally-Anne Coupar, l’équipe dont tous les numismates présents au Congrès international de Glasgow en 2009 ont pu apprécier la serviabilité et l’efficacité. Qu’ils reçoivent, ainsi que l’Université de Glasgow et l’Hunterian Museum, tous les remerciements du Bureau du CIN pour leur généreuse et amicale hospitalité.

Sylviane Estiot, CNRS, HISOMA, Lyon

Le 10e Prix Quinquennal du Cercle d’Études NumismatiquesDepuis 1969, le Cercle d’Études Numismatiques attribue tous les cinq ans un prix de 1000 € destiné à honorer un numismate belge ou étranger pour son activité scientifique au cours du lustre écoulé.

Autrefois destiné à couronner une carrière, tout en insistant sur les seuls textes imprimés au cours de la période séparant deux remises du prix, le CEN a décidé, en 2009, de modifier ce règlement afin d’attribuer désormais son « Prix Quinquennal de Numismatique » à un chercheur en début de carrière.

Les modifications apportées aux conditions d’octroi du prix sont les suivantes :

- l’abandon de l’alternance de l’attribution à un Belge puis à un étranger.

- l’âge maximum a été limité à 35 ans. Les candidats doivent donc être nés après le 31 décembre 1979.

- la sélection d’un seul et unique lauréat, effectuée par un jury international constitué par les anciens titulaires du prix, portera désormais sur l’ensemble de l’activité scientifique publiée. Par “activité scientifique publiée”, nous entendons toute forme de mise à la disposition du public de données originales rédigées dans une langue scientifique (français,

Mur d’Antonin. Distance slab : cette pièce, la plus grande connue et la seule répertoriée pour l’extrémité est du Mur, commémore la construction d’une longueur

de 4 652 pas par la IIe Légion Auguste. Trouvée à Bridgeness, West Lothian, en 1868 (original au National Museum Scotland)

mailto:[email protected]


Carmen Arnold-Biucchi President of the INC Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Honorable Jet Bussemaker Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap Rijnstraat 50 NL-2515 XP Den Haag The Netherlands June 18, 2014 Madam Minister, I am writing to express my concern and that of the International Numismatic Council about the closing of the Geldmuseum in Utrecht and the layoff of most of the professional staff. We are aware that the collections have been transferred to the Central Bank of the Netherlands in Amsterdam. The privatization of national collections without a popular consensus, however, greatly endangers the cultural heritage of the country involved. The creation of the Geldmuseum itself in 2004 was already the result of the merging of the three most important numismatic collections of the Netherlands: the Rijksmuseum, the Royal Coin Cabinet, founded in 1816, with a collection of 200,000 objects, the Dutch Mint Museum, with a collection of 60,000 objects and the numismatic collection of the Dutch Central Bank, with 140,000 objects. This was no doubt due to economic problems. But numismatic collections play a crucial role in education at all levels, from kindergarten to post doctorate studies. Children can learn the history of their country and that of many others through coins and related monetary objects. Coins are often the only documents of material culture for ancient cities and kingdoms. The collection of the Rijksmuseum is one of the famous royal collections of the world, though its size is modest. It should be available not only to scholars but to the general public. Such national treasures cannot be considered secondary or dispensable. In addition collections need to be taken care of and the Gelmuseum had an outstanding staff of knowledgeable curators, specialists in their field, who now have lost their job. It seems shortsighted to suppress “small” institutions in an economic crisis. The cultural consequences can only be detrimental. We feel compelled to urge you if at all possible to restore the Royal numismatic collection of the Netherlands as a center of research and an educational museum with the necessary staff. Respectfully yours,


that could be summarized with the slogan: “Dalle fotocopie ai realien: studiare la moneta e la sua storia” (“From photocopies to the real thing: studying money and its history”). Over the years this collaboration has been in three ambits: creation of a Coin Cabinet (1), Publishing activity (2), Research and improvement of the numismatic holdings (3).

1. Coin Cabinet. In 2010, at the Department of Humanities, thanks to a convention between public and private bodies (Department of Humanities, Trieste Numismatic Club, Bernardi Numismatica srl), a Coin Cabinet was created endowed with a few thousand specimens, in part from Roman times but mainly medieval and late-medieval. A conspicuous number of auction catalogues and monographs were acquired in the same way, which were added to the numismatic-book holdings of the University Library.

In February 2013, another convention with the Archeological Authority of Friuli Venezia Giulia, greatly facilitated by Luigi Fozzati and Paola Ventura, led to an exceptional increment of the numismatic collection. Around 3,500 ancient coins were received on deposit, with complete liberty of study and utilization. Their provenance, from a confiscation of archaeological finds during customs controls in the border area between Italy and Slovenia, is indicated as the Balkans without further specifications.

A rapid reconnaissance of this acquisition indicates:

A probable Hoard of oboli from Abdera; Bronze Hoard [ca. Jerone II of Syracuse (3rd century

BC)] from Lodovico Brunetti Collection (1889-1983: ca 2000 coins);

Two Hoards from the times of Alexander the Great (ca. 100 tetradrachmes and some imitations);

Two Hoards of second half 3rd century (A+B = ca.1300 Roman denarii and antoniniani);

Two Hoards of solidi: the first mostly Honorius solidi [Ravenna Mint (Milan and Aquileia style, 402-406 = RIC, X, 1286] and the second of solidi from the Justin I period [Constantinople Mint];

Hoard of denarii, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (ca. 350 coins).

There are also around ten Byzantine and Islamic seals, elements that reinforce the hypothesis of a Balkan provenance of the confiscated coins.

Istituto Italiano di NumismaticaL’Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, che ha sede in Palazzo Barberini, ha svolto in questo anno la sua normale attività di ricerca scientifica e di promozione culturale, sia pure a costo di notevoli sforzi per superare la pesante crisi

finanziaria creata dal taglio dei fondi statali.

In particolare ha orga-nizzato un incontro di studio (giugno 2014) sulla problematica delle prime emissioni argentee di Roma repubblicana, prendendo spunto dalle proposte formulate da F. Coarelli nel volume edito dall’Istituto medesimo: Argentum Signatum.

Ha inoltre in corso di pubblicazione due nuovi numeri della collana dedicata ai rinvenimenti da Pompei curati da R. Vitale: si tratta delle monete rinvenute nella Regio VII e di quelle provenienti dalla Regio VIII.

Si aggiungerà un volume dedicato da N. Parise alle “Monete greche di Italia meridionale”.

Infine, nel rispetto della cadenza consueta, ai primi del settembre 2014 sarà disponibile il vol. 59 degli “Annali”, che raccoglie ricerche relative alla metrologia ponderale, alla legislazione antica su pesi e monete, alla terminologia monetale nelle fonti di età classica, oltre che alla numismatica greca e romana e a rinvenimenti da scavi recenti.

l’Istituto, come è nelle sue consuetudini, è disponibile a scambiare le sue pubblicazioni - quelle su indicate e quelle precedenti – con chiunque ne faccia richiesta.

Un elenco aggiornato delle disponibilità è nel sito: www.istitutoitalianonumismatica.itPosta elettronica: [email protected]

Department of Humanities. University of TriesteIn describing the coming into being of Numismatics at Trieste, it is worth mentioning the latest initiative: the “IV Giornata Triestina di Numismatica” “IV Trieste Day of Numismatics”) (12 December 2013), organized in collaboration between the Department of Humanities of the University, the Trieste Numismatic Club and Bernardi Numismatica srl. The participants were Professors of the Humanities (Lucio Cristante), numismatists (Giovanni Gorini & Bruno Callegher), historians of Medieval Economics (Giacomo Todeschini), editors specialized in electronic publishing (Mauro Rossi of the Edizioni dell’Università di Trieste). It emerged that the collaborative synergy between the University, Bernardi Numismatica srl and the Archeological Authority of Friuli Venezia Giulia has fostered significant initiatives

Palazzo Barberini. Scala del Borromini

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c. Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean Concordance (and vice versa), by G. Bernardi, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2013, ISBN978-88-8303-472-5.

The series of “Studi” (“Studies”) include the Proceedings of the 2nd (Trieste, 29-31 August 2008) and 3rd (Rome, 23-24 September 2011) Assemani Symposium, followed by a monograph on the relations between gold and bronze money in Palestine in the Byzantine era, edited by Gabriela Bijovski, numismatic curator of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Two other studies are currently in press: on the coinage of the Cirenaica, edited by Michele Asolati of the University of Padova and the reprint of Giulio Bernardi, La monetazione del Patriarcato di Aquileia, Trieste 1975.

a. The 2nd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins, B. Callegher and A. D’Ottone eds., EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2010. ISBN 978-88-8303-284-4.

The volume gathers the Proceedings of the second International Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Numismatics (Trieste, 29-31 August 2008). The papers, by Italian and international scholars, deal with various domains of numismatic research covering a wide chronological and geographical range. Seals, coins from archaeological excavations, Arabic coins with Persian legends or with Chinese characters, and contributions on Islamic coin collections in Italy, are some of the themes of the fifteen papers published. These papers also examine, among other topics, the coins from Islamic and Norman Sicily, the coinage of the Mamluk and post-Ottoman conquest of Egypt and the great export of silver from Europe to Islamic lands at the beginning of the 13th century.

b. Bijovsky, Gabriela I., Gold Coin and Small Change: Monetary Circulation in Fifth-Seventh Century Byzantine Palestine, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2012, 553 p., 24 cm; ill. ISBN 9788883034770. With an introduction by Cécile Morrisson.

This very impressive book presents scholars with a comprehensive analysis of the local coinage that circulated in Palestine from the death of Arcadius until the time of the Arab conquest in the 640s.

c. The 3rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins, B. Callegher and A. D’Ottone eds., EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2012, 357 p. ISBN 978-88-8303-459-6.

The 3rd Assemani Symposium was dedicated to the transitional period of Islamic coinage, aiming at placing in context the Umayyad numismatic materials. The bulk of the papers published in these Proceedings therefore focus on this theme, but the contributions also take into account Arab-Sasanian and Arab-Byzantine issues, as well as early Umayyad coins from various regions of Dār al-Islām (Transoxiana, Sogdiana, Libya, etc.). Other papers throw light on different periods and objects of numismatic interest (seals, glass stamps, history of collecting), as this Symposium was intended to be the occasion for a wide-ranging scientific exchange on Arabic and Islamic Numismatics.

The other monographs include:

a. Callegher, Bruno, Ritrovamenti monetali di età romana nel Friuli Venezia Giulia. Province di Gorizia e Trieste:

The coins that are without provenance and without the possibility of being traced to a hoard include 6th century BC electrum coins, Athenian coins and coins from other Greek mints, numerous denarii and Republican and imperial Roman bronze coins issues from Roman provincial mints especially in the Balkans, medieval denari from mints active in the north-eastern area of the peninsula. The monetary documentation of the Austrian Empire is substantial.

In parallel, a small medals unit was created, which assembles specimens from 19th century Trieste alongside works by contemporary artists (Angelo Grilli and Luciano Mercante being the most represented).

In fact, the whole history of ancient money and part of that of the middle ages can be taught from the lessons of the examination and direct analysis of the most famous coins that played a leading role in the world economy or illustrative of crises and reforms.

2. Publications. The study of money could not be separated from publishing on paper and in Open Access. This gave rise to a series of numismatic studies, two of which form part of the classical antiquity series of the Department of Humanities: “Polymnia. Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi & Documenti” (“Ancient and medieval numismatics. Studies and Documents”). Each publication was submitted for approval by the scientific committee (members: Giovanni Gorini, Stefan Heidemann, Cécile Morrisson, Andrea Saccocci, Arianna D’Ottone, Robert Kool) and to double anonymous peer-review by recognized specialists.

In the “Documenti” series the following have so far been published:

a. Arabic Gold Coins Corpus 1 - Second revised Edition 2012.

Bernardi, Giulio, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2012, 425 p. ; 30 cm ; ill. ISBN 9788883033711. (See New publications section).

b. Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Israel Museum. The Paul Balog Collection. Egypt vol. III The Mamlūks 1248-1517. Baidoun, Issa M. - with a contribution by W. C. Schultz, Bernardi Numismatica & EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2011, 205 p. ; 30 cm ; ill. ISBN 9788885873360.

The series, in seven volumes, will be published with financial support from Bernardi Numismatica srl in collaboration with the Edizioni dell’Università di Trieste. (See New publications section).

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Torino) will edit Bernardo Davanzati. Lezione delle monete (1588). In 2015 it will be the turn of Gabriel Biel. Tractatus de potestate et utilitate monetarum (1516).

All the publications are accessible on line, in full text/PDF form via Open Access at: www.eut.units.it, or www.OpenStarTs.

3. Research and improvement of the numismatic holdings. After the research on the Ritrovamenti monetali di età romana nelle province di Trieste e Gorizia (Coin finds from the Roman age in the provinces of Trieste and Gorizia), the studies were directed to the reconstruction of the Čentur Hoard (Maresego-Slovenia), in part dispersed but in part retrievable thanks to the discovery of unpublished documentation. The attention on the Adriatic area extended to the reappearance of bronze Byzantine money in the 10th-11th centuries, starting from the study of the Canne Hoard. The Assemani Symposia remain a focal point, in collaboration with our colleague Arianna d’Ottone, Arabist at La Sapienza-University of Rome. From 26-27 September 2014, in fact, the 4th Simone Assemani Symposium will be held in Trieste, entitled “At the Beginning of Islamic Numismatics in Europe”.

Themes of research linked to this topic are:

1) The activity of 17th to 19th century scholars involved in Islamic Numismatic studies and the reasons for their involvement;

2) The exchanges of letters between scholars of the 17th to 19th centuries;

3) The significance and reliability of the first contributions;

4) The early publications of Islamic coin descriptions, and their drawings: linguistic and graphic matters and solutions;

5) 17th to 19th century collections & collectors; 6) Islamic Numismatics and its place within Oriental

studies; 7) Polemics and disputes (e.g. “The Abate Giuseppe

Vella Case”); 8) Ancient finds.

The promotion of the collection, in particular of the Greek and Medieval coinage, includes the publication of the various hoards in the series Numismatica Antica e medievale. Documenti (Ancient and Medieval Numismatics. Documents). A databank is also being organized and will be implemented by the end of 2014, in Open Access. It will be sited in the home page of the University. This project has been made possible by a post-doc research grant funded by the Anna Bernetti Sblattero in memory of Giovanni Sblattero, an eminent figure in the Trieste community. The research grant was awarded to Dr. Lorenzo Passera, who trained at the University of Udine under Prof. Andrea Saccocci: since January 2014 he has been inventorying, classifying and loading the data in the databank following the NU schedule.

Perhaps all of this is not great deal, but it seems to us worth reporting to the scientific community and something that should be continued.

Bruno Callegher

Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2010, 383 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 978888303286.

The volume aims to gather, verify and catalogue the numismatic documentation of the provinces of Gorizia and Trieste. It is part of a wider project of cataloguing all the ancient coins found in Italy, which began in 1992 on the basis of the experience of other European countries, initiated by the University of Padova (Giovanni Gorini curator). The provinces of Gorizia and Trieste, despite forming a relatively marginal part of the X regio Venetia et Histria, are territories of great interest for the ancient coin history of the region, in that the information and data gathered here link the Italian series with the Slovenian and Croatian ones, creating yet another element for the completion of the entire X regio.

b. Luciano Mercante scultore e medaglista. La donazione della famiglia ai civici musei di Padova, B. Callegher, E. Gastaldi, V. Vettorato eds., EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2013, 171 p. ; 24 cm, ill. ISBN 9788883035203.

During the past year, lastly, a project has been finalised that originated from a conversation with Filippo Carlà, today Professor of Roman History at Gutenberg University-Mainz. Ancient and medieval monetary theories were being discussed and how some of these fundamental writings were not very well known or almost never translated into Italian, accompanied by notes that put them into context and guide the study. The series “Rei Nummariae Scriptores” was set up to respond to this need. Directed together with Filippo Carlà, it is now entrusted to the scientific committee of Marc Bompaire, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Giovanni Gorini, Giacomo Todeschini and Andrea Saccocci. The plan is to reintroduce a scientific and detailed evaluation on the history of money with an editorial process of use not only to economists, historians and numismatists, but also to the wider group of people interested in these subjects, offering works of recognizable scientific value, but also accessible to a wider public thanks to detailed historical-economic introductions and explanatory notes. The series will include texts on the nature and function of money, written in western Europe prior to 1650 ca. These will be published with the original text and an Italian translation, accompanied by appropriate notes, which will not only place the author and the work within the history and economic debate of the period, but will also link economic thinking with the author’s writings, they will describe the “success” and the way in which they influenced the subsequent economic policy thoughts and/or decisions. The explanatory notes, lastly, will integrate and expand the research to aid full comprehension also by the less expert reader. If the majority of the works were written in Latin and originate from the philosophical, economic and political thinking in western Europe, it is also our intention to put this production in relation with that of the Islamic world and with that in the various vernaculars.

The first volume, Paolo Evangelisti, Francesc Eiximenis. Il Dodicesimo Libro del Cristiano; capp. 139-152 e 193-197”, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2013, pp. 244, ISBN 978-88-8303-524-1.

For this series, during 2014, Federica Pezzoli (University Carlos III, Madrid) will edit J. De Mariana. De monetae mutatione (1609), while Stefano Franchini (University of

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Congresses and Meetings

Urban versus Rural Contexts: Differences of Monetization from Ancient Greece to the Early Middle Ages (Coin finds, Taxes and Trade)On Friday the 16th of May, the Fourth International Numismatic Conference of the Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium was organised. This triennial conference, highly regarded in the numismatic world, aims to promote the study of coinage from a long-term historical perspective. Subject of this year’s conferences was the contrast between urban and rural contexts on the level of monetization from ancient Greece to the early Middle ages. The papers will subsequently be published in the Revue belge de Numismatique of 2015 (volume 161).

The attendees and lecturers were received in the recently renovated Royal Sky Room of the Royal Library of Belgium. Subsequently they were welcomed by the director of the heritage collections, Robert Nouwen, François de Callataÿ (Royal Library of Belgium, Université libre de Bruxelles, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) and Johan van Heesch, head of the Coin Cabinet.

The first lecture of our conference was given by Catherine Grandjean (University of Tours). She presented a study about the monetization of ancient Greek cities. The second speaker was François de Callataÿ, who examined the monetary sources in the New Attic Comedy. Christian Lauwers, researcher at the Coin Cabinet, gave us an insight in the Celtic coin production in the oppida and in mobile workshops. Philippa Walton, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, discussed the monetization of Roman Britain.

The afternoon session started with a conference of Fran Stroobants, researcher at the Coin Cabinet, about the coin use at Sagalassos (modern Turkey) and its territory. The next speaker, Jean-Marc Doyen (Université de Lille 3, Université Libre de Bruxelles) presented a paper on coin circulation on rural settlements in Northern Gaul. The following lecture by Jean-Pierre Devroey (Université Libre de Bruxelles), discussed the monetization during the Age of Carolingians. The last speaker of our conference was Alessia Rovelli from the University of Tuscia, Italy, who gave a lecture on rural and urban contexts in Northern Italy in the early Middle Ages.

The First International Numismatic Conference “The Viking Era in Eastern Europe and Numismatic Objects of the 8th –11th Centuries”From 18 to 20 April 2014 an International Numismatic Conference dedicated to problems connected with medieval monuments complexes discovered in Eastern Europe took place in Saint-Petersburg and Staraya Ladoga. The conference’s name and main area of research were determined by advanced trading communications of the region in the Middle Ages: the study of hoard and isolated finds of dirhams, denarii and Old Russian coins, sphragistics materials, metal plastic art and objects of applied arts and crafts from pre-Mongolian epoch. Chronologically the conference dealt with the period of the establishment period of Rus as a state, i. e. the Viking Era. The venue for the academic debates –the very old Russian town and first residence of the legendary prince Rurik – Staraya Ladoga – contributed to this selection.

Altogether 32 people from 5 countries – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Belgium and Lithuania – participated in the conference and presented 33 papers. There were 7 Candidates of Science and Doctors of Science and as many employees of public museums (State Hermitage, Kurskiy, Smolensky, Staro-Ladozhskiy and Mogilevskiy), 2 numismatic experts certified by the Ministry of Culture and quite a number of numismatists among them who summarily had produced more than 2000 papers on history and related subjects.

The conference was made possible thanks to the active participation of the Staroladozhskiy Historical-Architectural and Archeological Reserve together with the Leningrad Region State Government-financed Cultural Institution ‘Museum Agency’, as well as sponsoring aid from the Non-Commercial Partnership ‘Organised Archeology’.

The abstarcts ot the reports with a list of the papers in 284 pages were published to be distributed at the conference.

Gubchevskaya L.A. Essay on Staraya LadogaGalanov V.I. The Numismatic Objects from the Viking Era from the Collections of the Smolensk State Culture PreserveTarasova M.A., Filinov V.A. Two Hoards of Dirhams

Presentation of Fran Stroobants.

Plenary session on 18 April 2014 in St. Petersburg. (photo: O.V. Hitalskiy)


Imitations of Byzantine CoinsKononovich A.Yu. Old Russian Crosses of the “Scandinavian” Type: Typology, Chronology, and Presence in CultureEidel E.M. On the Question of Dating Women’s Seals from Old Russia using the Marking of the Decree of Yefrosiniya PolotskayaKuleshov S.G. The Findings of ‘Scandinavian Imitations’ of Coins of the English King Ethelred II on the Territory of the UkraineTrost’yanskiy O.V., Van Laere R. A Few Rare or Unpublished Salian Coins from Prince-Bishopric of Liège in Russian Private CollectionsMoiseenko N.S., Sotnikova M.P. The Study of Srebreniks by Way of Example Work with one Private CollectionsTarlakovskiy L.S. The Hoard of Western European Denarii from the Village ‘Nikolaevshina’Trost’yanskiy O.V. Denarii of the Lower Lorraine with Depictions of Sword (11th Century)Malozyomov Yu.P. Seals of the Drahichyn Type from BeloozeroTarlakovskiy L.S. On the Counterfeit Poltina of the Novgorod TypeКhan N.A. On the Question of Improvement the Methodological Basis of the Initial Circulation Studying of Kufic Dirhams on Russian PlainSotnikova M.P. I.G. Spasskiy and the Corpus of Ancient Russian CoinsDuksa Z.Yu. Reminiscences of Kufic Coins Studying and My Connections with Other Investigators of these Numismatic ObjectsGleyzer M.M. Russian Books on Numismatic Objects of the 8th -11th Centuries, Published after 1917

Editor-in-chief Nikita Moiseenko [email protected] Executive secretary Leonid Tarlakovsky [email protected]

II Jornadas de Numismática Las imagenes de las monedas antiguas utilizadas en la Península IbéricaValencia, 15 y 16 de octubre 2014Esta segunda edición de las Jornadas de Numismática pretende dar a conocer las principales imágenes de las monedas antiguas desde sus orígenes en Grecia hasta época visigoda, incidiendo especialmente en las que se acuñaron en la Peninsula Ibérica. Junto a las conferencias se realizarán prácticas de documentación y catalogación de monedas en grupos reducidos, donde se podrán examinar directamente las monedas, a la vez que se mostrarán los métodos y recursos empleados por los investigadores. El propósito esencial es proporcionar una visión global de la disciplina numismática, dedicando una mayor atención a la iconografía monetal, y capacitar a los asistentes para el análisis, identificación, estudio y catalogación de las producciones más relevantes de la Antigüedad enmarcadas en su contexto histórico.15 de octubre - Tarde

16:00 Presentación – Helena Bonet Rosado 16:15 Introducción a la numismática antigua de la Península Ibérica – Manuel Gozalbes. 16:45 Las influencias de la moneda griega – Pere Pau Ripollès. 17:15. De Iberia a Hispania: Las amonedaciones de tradición fenicio-púnica - Bartolomé Mora. 18:00 Descanso. 18:30 Carthago: la imagen del poder

from the mid 10th Century from the Dneiper Region of MogilevBegovatov E.A., Chernyaev A.A. New Findings of Kufic Coins on the Territory of Tatarstan. Burakovskiy HoardPokrass Yu.L., Khromov K.K. A Hoard of Silver Coins from the Second Half of the 10th Century from ChernigovBezuglov S.I. The Circulation and Administration of Money in the Tmutarakan Principality (End of 10th – End of 11th Centuries). New AspectsSinchuk I.I. Letter to K.V. Bolsunovsky about the Hoard of Kufic Coins of the 10th CenturySergeev V.Yu. On the Question of Notches in the Coin Hoard of 1967 from the Village ‘Kislie’Starodubtsev G.Yu. The Archeological Complex of Zhideevka: Numismatic Findings from the End of the 10th to the Beginning of the 11th CenturiesEidel E.M. Decrees of Princes Yaropolk-Pyotr and Vladimir-Vasily: Attributions and DatingMoiseenko N.S. Replenishment of the Hoards’ Number of Old Russian Coins in the 10th –11th CenturiesShostopal A.V. Coin Findings from the 10th –11th Centuries in the Cherkasy RegionDonskikh V.A. The Identification and Determination of Authenticity of Old Russian Silver Coins Using X-Ray AnalysersReva R.Yu., Trost’yanskiy O.V. The Hoard of Money and Other Items from the Beginning of the 11th Century from the Vicinity of Murom. (Preliminary report)Nagorniy A.V. Who is Depicted on the Coins of Svyatopolk with the Inscription ‘Petor’?Zhukov I.A. The Early Seal of the Prince of Chernigov Mstislav Vladimirovich – The Russian Khagan (1023–1036)Kononovich A.Yu. Pendants of Holy Pictures with depictions of St. George and Cast Copies of Coins such as “Yaroslavlе Srebro”Garbuzov V.D. Bracteates of the Tmutarakan Prince Roman Svyatoslavich (1068–1079)Yanush Ya.B. To the Question about Motion of English Pence on the Territory of Ancient Russia in the 11th Century from DenmarkDutkinskiy N.I. New Materials for the Study of Taman

Afternoon session on 19 April 2014 in the building of the Museum of archeology. Staroladozhskiy Historical-Architectural and Archeological Reserve. The house

of merchant Kalyazin. Left - Chairman of the meeting, Gennady Yurievich Starodubtsev (Director of the Kursk state oblast [region] Museum of archeology,

the candidate of historical Sciences). Right - Nikita Sergeevich Moiseenko (St. Petersburg, candidate of historical Sciences, member of the organizing Committee).

(photo: O.V. Hitalskiy)




XVIII Curso de historia monetaria hispánica Un patrimonio numismático eclesiástico: las pellofes

Barcelona. 26 y 27 de noviembre de 2014El curso gira alrededor de distintos aspectos de estas fichas, jetones o tantos de coro, inicialmente creados para un uso interno en las comunidades canonicales de catedrales, colegiatas y otras instituciones religiosas de Cataluña que, a menudo, también circularon en el ámbito local, donde rara era la población de una cierta entidad que no tuviese sus pallofes eclesiásticas. El curso cuenta con una publicación de las distintas intervenciones en lo que pretende ser una obra de síntesis y puesta al día de unas piezas poco divulgadas.

Miércoles 26 de noviembre, de 16 a 20 hSala Mercè de la Catedral de Barcelona

Les pellofes, notes per a un estat de la qüestió. Dr. Albert Estrada-Rius, conservador del Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya del Museu Nacional d’Art de CatalunyaDe pellofes i encunys de pellofes: una aproximació a la seva tipologia i fabricació. Dr. Xavier Jorba i Serra, investigador en numismàtica

Jueves 27 de noviembre, de 9,30 a 14 hAuditorio del Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

Pellofes i moneda local, una interacció monetària. Dr. Xavier Sanahuja i Anguera, Membre de la Societat Catalana d’Estudis NumismàticsLes pellofes a les troballes arqueològiques catalanes. Dra. Maria Clua i Mercadal , Adjunta a conservació del Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya del Museu Nacional d’Art de CatalunyaLes pellofes a la documentació local. L’exemple de Cervera. Dr. Josep M. Llobet i Portella, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Jueves 27 de noviembre, de 16 a 20 hEls ploms eclesiàstics de Mallorca: un estat de la qüestió. Sr. Jaume Boada i Salom, investigador en numismàtica

– Ruth Pliego. 19:00 Monedas en el sur de Iberia o el triunfo de la naturaleza animal y vegetal - Francisca Chaves.

16 de octubre – Mañana y tarde10:00-14:00 Prácticas de documentación y catalogación de monedas griegas, ibéricas y romanas. - Docentes: Carmen Delegido, Rafael Martínez Alzamora, Pere Pau Ripollès, Manuel Gozalbes y Tomás Hurtado.

16:00 La iconografía monetaria del Extremo Occidente: cultos y mitos compartidos - Bartolomé Mora. 16:30 De la imagen al retrato en la moneda romana: tiempos de crisis - Francisca Chaves. 17:00 Los diseños de la Citerior – Manuel Gozalbes 17:30. Las monedas provinciales romanas - Pere Pau Ripollès. 18:00 Descanso. 18:30 El tesoro de denarios romanos imperiales de Llíria - Carmen Delegido. 19:00. La iconografía monetal visigoda: innovación a partir de modelos clásicos - Ruth Pliego.

Inscripción. Las conferencias son de asistencia libre, pero las prácticas tienen aforo limitado. Aquellos interesados en recibir un diploma acreditativo de su asistencia deben inscribirse enviando un correo electrónico con nombre, apellidos y DNI, antes del día 8 de octubre a la dirección de correo [email protected] de celebración: Facultat de Geografia i Història. Salón de Actos Sanchis Guarner. Avda. Blasco Ibáñez 28, 46010 Valencia Organizan: Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia Universitat de València Museu de Prehistòria de València – Diputación de Valencia

Conjunto de pellofes procedentes de la iglesia de la Bisbal, s. XVIII.

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Faraguna | University of Trieste. Silver from Laureion: mining and minting

12:30–14:00. Lunch break

14:00–14:45. Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert | American Numismatic Society, New York. Ruling an empire by controlling a coin standard?

14:45–15:30. Alain Bresson | University of Chicago.Money, trade and prices in the Hellenistic economy

15:30–16:00. Tea break

Section 2: The Roman Economy

16:00–16:45. Simon Keay | University of Southampton.The role of Portus in commercial flows between Rome and Mediterranean ports

16:45–17:30. Annalisa Marzano | University of Reading.Large-scale fishing and the Roman production and trade in salted fish: some organizational aspects

19:30. Speakers‘ dinner (by invitation only)

Thu 30 October. Clubroom

Section 2: The Roman Economy (continued)

9:30–10:15. Claude Domergue | University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail. How the Western Mediterranean was supplied with metals towards the end of the Republic and under the early Empire: fluxes, routes and organization

10:15–11:00. Kevin Butcher | University of Warwick Bernhard Woytek | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Coin production and coin distribution in the Roman empire in the first and early second centuries AD: a general framework and some case studies

11:00–11:30. Coffee break

11:30–12:15. Suzanne Frey-Kupper | University of Warwick. Clive Stannard | University of Leicester

Evidence for the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolete coin in the ancient world

12:15–13:00. Thomas Corsten | Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna. Negotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien

13:00–14:30. Lunch break

14:30–15:15. Thomas Kruse | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. The transport of goods through the Eastern Desert of Egypt

15:15–16:00. Ben Russell | University of Edinburgh.Quarry inscriptions, accounting systems, and the Roman stone trade

16:00–16:30. Tea break

Taula rododa i debat final. Les pellofes: un repte per a divulgar un patrimoni numismàtic eclesiàstic poc conegut a cargo del Dr. Josep M. Martí i Bonet, canonge de la Seu de Barcelona i director del Museu Diocesà

Coordinación científica: Dr. Albert [email protected] Numismàtic de Catalunya

Museu Nacional d’Art de CatalunyaPalau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc

08038 Barcelona

Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture Division Documenta Antiqua International Congress Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies. The Flow of Money, Goods and Services

Vienna. 28–31 October, 2014

PROGRAMME

Tue 28 October. Theatersaal

18:00. Welcome. Michael Alram | Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Andreas Pülz | Director of the Institute for the Study of Ancient culture Bernhard Woytek | Head of the Division Documenta Antiqua

Evening lecture. Roger S. Bagnall | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, (ISAW) New York University. Using papyrus documents for the study of an ancient economy: methods and materials from an Egyptian oasis

Buffet in the courtyard of the Herbert Hunger Haus

Wed 29 October. Clubroom

9:30–9:45. Introduction. Bernhard Woytek | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Section 1: Greek Economies

9:45–10:30. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Decrees and treaties – the legal framework for the successful flow of goods and money

10:30–11:15. Vincent Gabrielsen | University of Copenhagen. “Mankind’s most secure and durable institution”: state, credit, trade and capital accumulation in the classical-early Hellenistic Aegean


11:45–12:30. Gerhard Thür | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Michele


posible de especialistas e investigadores. El encuentro se estructurará en torno a los siguientes temas:

Las colecciones numismáticas en las instituciones españolas — Ponente: Martín Almagro-Gorbea, Anticuario de la Real Academia de la Historia

Historiografía de las colecciones, museos e instituciones: origen, formación, descripción, perspectivas de futuro, problemática profesional, relaciones interdisciplinares.

La vida de la moneda en el museo — Ponente: Miguel Beltrán Lloris, Director del Museo de Zaragoza

El proceso de la pieza numismática como bien cultural, desde su hallazgo o adquisición hasta su exhibición: ingreso, control, documentación, archivo administrativo, investigación, catalogación, criterios de conservación y restauración, organización e infraestructuras de las salas de reserva.

La visibilidad del patrimonio numismático — Ponente: Marta Campo Díaz, Presidenta de la SIAEN

Museografía para monedas y objetos numismáticos: criterios y prioridades de exposición, nuevos métodos y sistemas, descripción de planes museográficos, renovación de antiguas áreas expositivas, exposiciones temporales.

Vías de difusión y comunicación: sitios web, aplicación de nuevas tecnologías, actividades divulgativas, cursos y talleres, catálogos y publicaciones científicas, concienciación sobre el patrimonio numismático como parte del Patrimonio Cultural.

Comunicaciones de tema libre Nos permitimos llamar especialmente la atención hacia los hallazgos monetarios, como uno de los pilares y razones de ser de los congresos nacionales.

INSCRIPCIÓNSi está usted interesado en participar en el congreso, le rogamos envíe el formulario de preinscripción adjunto antes del 5 de mayo a [email protected] o, por correo postal, a: Museo Arqueológico Nacional Departamento de Numismática Serrano, 13 28001 Madrid

En caso de desear presentar comunicación o póster, deberá adjuntar el título y un resumen de un máximo de 1500 caracteres con espacios (250 palabras).

En una próxima circular se informará de los criterios de presentación de las comunicaciones y pósteres aceptados, así como de las normas para la tramitación del pago y la inscripción definitiva.

La inscripción dará derecho a un ejemplar de las Actas en formato electrónico.

Cuota de inscripción. General: 100 € ▪ Desempleados y estudiantes universitarios (con acreditación): 50 €

Section 3: Ancient Iranian Economies

16:30–17:15. Michael Alram | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Money and coinage in the Achaemenid empire: production and distribution

17:15–18:00. Robert Rollinger | University of Innsbruck — University of Helsinki. Zwischen Deportation und Anwerbung: die Rekrutierung von Spezialisten von der neuassyrischen Zeit bis zur Zeit Alexanders des Großen

Fri 31 October. Clubroom

Section 3: Ancient Iranian Economies (continued)

9:30–10:15. Udo Hartmann | University of Jena

Wege durch Parthien – Straßen, Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenreich

10:15–11:00. Fabrizio Sinisi | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Imperial and local: the organisation of coin production in the Parthian empire


11:30–12:15. Nikolaus Schindel | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Sasanian mints – where and why?

12:15–13:00. Final Discussion

Organisation: Bernhard Woytek, Head of the Division Documenta Antiqua, institute for the Study of Ancient culture,

Austrian Academy of SciencesWebsite: www.oeaw.ac.at/docant2014

Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences clubroom: Dr. Ignaz Sei-pel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna theatersaal: Herbert Hunger Haus,

Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 ViennaContact: [email protected]

XV Congreso Nacional de Numismática Patrimonio Numismático y Museos

28 al 30 de Octubre de 2014

Del 28 al 30 de octubre de 2014 se celebrará en Madrid el XV CONGRESO NACIONAL DE NUMISMÁTICA, organizado por el Museo Arqueológico Nacional y la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Numismáticos (SIAEN).

En esta ocasión, el tema central del Congreso girará en torno a PATRIMONIO NUMISMÁTICO Y MUSEOS, coincidiendo con la inauguración del MAN tras las obras de remodelación integral del edificio y de su exposición permanente.

El objetivo es obtener una imagen lo más completa posible de los fondos numismáticos conservados en los museos e instituciones españoles como parte sustancial de nuestro Patrimonio Histórico. Como es habitual, el Congreso contará también con una sesión de temática libre, a fin de facilitar la participación del mayor número

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The ‘Greek’ world: building a Typology

Thus far, the world of ‘Greek’ numismatics has seen much slower progress in the move to towards the creation of digital tools. In part, no doubt, this is due to the disparate nature of Greek numismatics, a field which covers regions Spain to the Hindu Kush, from the Balkans to North Africa, and the period from c. 650 to 31 BC. And the problem is not new, nor confined to the digital sphere. A need has long been felt, for example, for a Typology that can provide us with a reference work for this vast mass of coinage, but the various attempts to create one in print in Germany, France and Britain have all foundered under the weight of the task.The second day of the meeting was devoted, therefore, to the questions of how far the discipline of Greek numismatics is currently digitised, what tools and resources must be created for a Typology to be possible online, and what lessons could be learnt from the recent successes in the field of Roman numismatics.

There is, of course, no need to explain the need for a Typology of Greek coinage. The utility of such a project is amply brought home by parallel works in the fields of Roman numismatics. Roman Republican Coinage (RRC), Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC), and Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) are fundamental tools that an entire discipline relies upon on a daily basis. The classification of coinage by type allows us to refer unambiguously to a particular issue of a particular mint. Such references are vital to us whether we are cataloguing collections, publishing hoards or identifying site finds. The Typology is a fundamental part of the apparatus of the study of the ancient world, not just for numismatists, but for archaeologists and historians too. The type corpora are also, in all probability, the first works of numismatic scholarship to which the non-specialist will turn, either to situate an individual specimen within its broader numismatic context, or to obtain a full overview of the coinage of a particular place or period.

We badly need the Typology, and the clear lesson from the recent successes in the Roman field is that, with the onward march of technology, it is now possible to consider undertaking this project digitally, with all the advantages that this approach brings. For some of us, born in the age of books and paper, and still firmly committed to print publication, this may sound a daunting proposition, or at least a puzzling one. It is important, therefore, to lay out the methods and advantages of a digital project built on the principles of Linked Data, and this was a major focus of the second day of the meeting.

Research programs - Work in progress

The New Landscape of Ancient Numismatics Towards an Online Typology of Greek CoinageAt the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 25th-26th April 2014, a pair of meetings took place to survey the current state of development of digital applications for ancient numismatics. Representatives were present from 10 countries, 12 coin collections, 14 major numismatic projects, as well as members of the International Numismatic Council.

The Roman World and ‘Linked Data’

The morning of the first day was devoted to resources currently being developed within the Roman field. Projects represented ranged from type corpora (Roman Imperial Coinage, Online Roman Republican Coinage, Online Coinage of the Roman Empire, Roman Provincial Coinage) and hoard corpora (Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project, Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic) to finds projects (Portable Antiquities Scheme, European Coin Finds Network).

The thread that runs through the majority of these projects is their adoption of Linked Data principles that allow for the close interlinking of different resources through the use of common vocabularies. ‘Linked Data’ is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee and now widely used to describe a specific method of using the World Wide Web to connect related data. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as “a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers. This enables data from different sources to be connected and queried.” The Resource Description Framework (RDF) allows us to construct meaningful statements about things on the web that can be read by both machines and humans. However, to construct such statements about numismatic material, we need a ‘language’ suitable for conveying numismatic concepts.

The afternoon of the first day was thus devoted to the need for such a ‘language’, and the role of a project established to perform precisely that function: nomisma.org. In fact, a number of the projects demonstrated in the morning were already employing elements of the nomisma.org vocabulary, and it was generally agreed that this project currently represents the most advanced attempt to create a numismatic vocabulary for use in Linked Data approaches to numismatics. As a result of the meeting, therefore, the INC has voted to grant patronage to the nomisma.org project, in that hope that it may provide a widely accepted resource for numismatic projects online.

The whole first day painted a broad panorama of the extraordinary work that is now being undertaken in the field of Roman numismatics. Moreover, it demonstrated how different projects can maintain their autonomy and working practices, while at the same time producing data that can be linked to produce exciting new tools.

Frédérique Duyrat and Andrew Meadows

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http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/coin_hoards_of_the_roman_empire_project/

http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/coin_hoards_of_the_roman_empire_project/

http://numismatics.org/chrr/

http://finds.org.uk/

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possibility. Online publication brings with it the possibility of simultaneous publication in multiple languages. Online Coinage of the Roman Empire, a web version of the RIC project, has now been released with a search interface available in eleven languages, in contrast to the original volumes, which are only available in English.

A digital environment allows much greater flexibility in matters of co-ordination and communication, as well as in publication. Scholars working in similar areas may share their work conveniently through digital platforms. Standardisation of approach may take place as authors work together, rather than through a time-consuming editorial process at the end. And one author need not wait for another’s work to be ready before seeing publication of his or her own. Moreover, the creation of supplementary entries, or new editions of a digital Typology may proceed more swiftly and efficiently. There is no need to re-edit an entire volume if one mint needs to be updated. If a reference or numbering system needs to be changed, then it can be done online, with built in cross-referencing to earlier editions. New knowledge can be made available quickly and efficiently, rather than with the time lag inherent in the complete rewriting and reprinting of a reference work.

As we enter the 21st century increasing amounts of the data that could only be accessed in print or by visits and autopsy are now available on the Web. Major collections, such as those of the British Museum in London, the Bode Museum in Berlin, the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris and the American Numismatic Society in New York, are going online, commerce has moved there, and projects now exist to make hoard and excavation material available online. To collect this digital material and reduce it to print format makes little sense, and adds yet another layer of work.

The day began by taking stock of the current state of digitisation of the major collections represented at the meeting: Presentations were made or sent in by the cabinets in Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Harvard, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, New York, Paris and Vienna. It emerged that only four of these collections have the whole of their collection digitally catalogued, and only two of those have digital images to go with all of their catalogue records.

The second part of the meeting took a look at what other resources were currently available online in the field of Greek numismatics, and what more must be built in order to make a Typology possible. Presentations were made of two projects currently under way to develop online corpora for specific regions. Ulrike Peter presented the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy’s project to create a Typology for Thrace (Corpus Nummorum Thracorum) on the basis of the material collected by the Griechisches Münzwerk project. Evi Markou spoke about the project she is about to begin to produce the Typology of the silver coinage of Cyprus (The Silver Coinage of the Kings of Cyprus). Andrew Meadows gave a brief demonstration of the project to create an online version of the Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards. Frédérique Duyrat and A.J. Gatlin addressed the need and the possibility of providing a resource to collect all coins described for sale at auction, whether in print or online. Olivier Picard gave a presentation on the potential and value of incorporating material from excavation.

The third part of the day focused on the nature of a digital Typology, drawing on the lessons learnt from the Roman projects and the advantages of pursuing the project as a digital enterprise. An attempt was made to map out the constituent parts that might feed into the Online Greek Coinage Typology

Working online on a project as vast as Online Greek Coinage brings numerous advantages. First and foremost it frees the project from the expense of printing and the tyranny of the binding. Publication on the web sidesteps the costs of typesetting and printing. It also allows for the publication of work as and when it is ready, without the need to wait for the completion of other pieces of work that happen to require inclusion in the same book. The implications of these two advantages are many.

The publication of such reference works on the Web opens up their use to all. If control of the web resource can be placed in the hands of public or non-profit educational institutions, rather than of commercial publishers, and under an appropriate Creative Commons License, then free access can be guaranteed to any user anywhere in the world. And an international audience becomes a real

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need not replace such formats as articles and books, but rather provide an enhanced means for incorporating their typology into a systematic account of Greek coinage.

And finally, on what resources can Online Greek Coinage draw for the specimens it will include? It is clearly necessary to set boundaries, so that accounts of types may achieve completion. This, for example, is the principle followed by Roman Provincial Coinage in its use of ‘Core Collections’. But for the Greek world such collections cannot be relied upon alone. It was proposed that a set of Core Collections must certainly be agreed upon, and that these should be consulted concerning their participation; but it was also agreed that more would be necessary. The hoard record must be completely absorbed; excavation coins will be crucial for the proper inclusion of bronze coinage; and the huge number of coins that have appeared in commerce cannot be ignored.

Linked data projects are necessary, therefore, to establish the online presence of all of these categories of resource. Online Greek Coinage, when it comes into existence will not be a single project, but rather a network of projects including collection catalogues, hoard databases, excavation publications and material in commerce. At the same time as we build the Typology, we must encourage the creation of these resources.

What next?

The principal purpose of Online Greek Coinage, it should be stressed, is to provide a human and machine-readable summary of the coinage of the ‘Greek’ world. It will aid in the Linking of online resources, the cataloguing of collections and new specimens, and the presentation of numismatic material in new ways and in multiple languages. It will provide multiple forms of output, including simple data downloads, as well as formatted printed text. And it will allow us to communicate the results of our research beyond the traditional confines of our discipline. But most of all, it will constitute a resource on which we may all - curators, collectors, scholars and dealers - may draw upon for information about ancient coinage.

The next step, it was widely agreed, must be to supply potential collaborators in these major projects with information on how to publish their data as Linked Data. A website (www.greekcoinage.org) is in the process of being built to serve as an information portal, both for technical aspects of the various Online Greek projects, but also for authors and editors. In time we hope to turn this into a major resource in its own right for numismatic research.

At its meeting in May 2013, the International Numismatic Council recognized the importance of this new initiative in Greek numismatics by awarding its patronage both to the Online Greek Coinage initiative, and to the project to develop an online Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards. It has also voted to award the projects a grant in aid of 3000 €, to begin work on the projects. The next milestone will be the International Numismatic Congress in Taormina in September 2015, where we hope to unveil major parts of the technical infrastructure and send out an international call for collaboration.

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Moreover developments in the Semantic Web now make it possible through intelligent linking of data to construct Typologies of material purely on the Web, linking to data from institutions and other owners without the need to incur cost in doing so or to repackage it.

But the production of a Typology using Linked Data technology brings with it a whole new set of advantages that could not be imagined in the world of print publication. Online Greek Coinage is central to the study of Greek coinage in that provides an unambiguous way to refer to a particular type of coin or series of coinage. In this respect it potentially provides the glue that may link together the various parts of the scholarly apparatus required by the discipline of Greek numismatics. As these other resources also begin to develop a presence on the Web, then the Online Greek Coinage Typology may serve to link them together. These links make these other resources richer, but they may in turn enrich the Typology itself. Within the discipline we may bring finds, hoards and collections together, with enhanced presentation. But we may also break coinage out of its silo and link it to resources beyond numismatics.

And finally, but perhaps most importantly, Online Greek Coinage, as a digital Typology can do more than just link data, it can also supply it. As a repository of authoritative cataloging of all known coin types it can serve as a reference tool for all who need to catalogue specimens in their collections or excavations. Just as no Librarian need ever catalogue a book from scratch, thanks to the existence of electronic library catalogues, and downloadable catalogue records, so once Online Greek Coinage exists no one need ever catalogue a coin from scratch again.

But with the utility and possibility of an Online Typology established, discussion turned to the practicalities of building Online Greek Coinage. The basis for the creation of typologies for coinages will inevitably be twofold. Where existing reliable reference works exist and their authors are willing to collaborate, these existing reference systems can be adapted to the need of the Typology project. Where no such reference work exists, new research must be commissioned. Online Greek Coinage may equally benefit from the traditional workflow of scholarly study in the field of numismatics. Authors preparing the scientific publication of a mint, for instance, may add their catalogues of types, while still working towards the publication of a traditional article or monograph. The Online Greek Coinage Typology

Ulrike Peter


L’antica raccolta numismatica della Biblioteca Classense: un progetto di catalogazione

La Biblioteca Classense di Ravenna possiede, oltre a moltissimi manoscritti e libri di grande pregio, anche una ricca collezione di monete, formatasi soprattutto nel corso del XVIII secolo per volere dei monaci Camaldolesi, i quali crearono, all’interno del monastero ravennate, un importante Museo di antichità. Il Museo di Classe costituisce di fatto il nucleo più antico delle raccolte del Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, dove confluì, nel 1895, anche la collezione numismatica Classense. Tuttavia un numero consistente di monete, circa 2900, fu lasciato in deposito presso la Biblioteca, che possiede altresì un ricco patrimonio librario di carattere numismatico, in particolare spicca la presenza del fondo appartenuto a Tommaso Bertelè, noto diplomatico e attivo studioso della monetazione bizantina.

La collezione numismatica include principalmente monete romane ed emissioni delle zecche medievali italiane, mentre le numerose monete moderne, italiane e di altri Paesi europei, non sono successive all’epoca della rivoluzione francese, poiché il monastero di Classe fu soppresso nel 1798. La ricerca d’archivio, costantemente affiancata al lavoro sul materiale numismatico, ha consentito sinora di evidenziare che nell’Ottocento molte altre monete e medaglie furono aggiunte alla collezione originaria: si tratta sia di nuovi acquisti sia di donazioni private (è esemplare il caso della donazione di medaglie pontificie da parte di Pio IX, nel 1857), ma vi sono anche monete provenienti, ad esempio, dagli scavi ferroviari di Ravenna. L’attuale conformazione della raccolta Classense non contiene, pertanto, solo le monete che erano state ritenute “doppie” rispetto a quelle consegnate

Il medagliere del XVIII sec. della Biblioteca Classense.© Laboratorio fotografico della Biblioteca Classense (Ravenna).

Ostrogoti: emissioni anonime per Ravenna, decanummo (c. 493-526 d.C.). Collezione della Biblioteca Classense.

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al Museo Nazionale, ma anche materiale numismatico eterogeneo (infatti si annoverano anche tessere e gettoni di conto) e di diversa provenienza.

Il presente progetto si propone quindi di studiare, catalogare e valorizzare questo notevole patrimonio numismatico della città di Ravenna, ed è nato nel 2012 da un rapporto di collaborazione scientifica fra l’Istituzione Biblioteca Classense e il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell’Università di Bologna, con sede a Ravenna. Segnaliamo che il progetto è cofinanziato dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, che ha sempre generosamente sostenuto questa iniziativa.

Le monete, in primis, saranno catalogate in banca dati secondo la descrizione della scheda ministeriale per la numismatica (NU). Grazie all’autorizzazione concessa dall’Istituto dei Beni Artistici, Culturali e Naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna (IBC), il catalogo, ora in fase di aggiornamento, verrà messo a disposizione sulla Banca dati on line dell’ IBC, Patrimonio culturale dell’Emilia-Romagna, disponibile al sito. In una seconda fase del lavoro, è prevista la realizzazione di una mostra e di un catalogo a stampa della collezione.

Per ogni ulteriore informazione sul progetto, è possibile contattare direttamente il catalogatore, il Dr. Andrea Gariboldi ([email protected]), oppure la Dr.ssa Daniela Poggiali della Biblioteca Classense ([email protected]).

Andrea Gariboldi

Exhibitions

The other side of the medal: how Germany saw the First World War

British Museum. 9 May-23 November 2014

This display examines a selection of medals made by artists who lived and worked in Germany between 1914 and 1919. There will be a programme of gallery talks about this display as well as a lunchtime lecture.

Challenging and at times deliberately provocative, many of the medals were intended to influence popular opinion against Germany’s enemies. Others provide a more universal criticism about the futility of war and waste of human life.

Initial enthusiasm for the First World War quickly descended into horror at its scale and brutality. Reflecting upon this, numerous artists revived the medieval Dance of Death motif to present an almost apocalyptic view of the conflict. On these medals, Death stalks the battlefield, sea and sky, hacking down soldiers, sinking ships or manipulating giant Zeppelin airships. The figure becomes an active malevolent presence and indiscriminate force of destruction.

Medal artists also embraced Expressionism to explore the psychological effects of war, distorting reality to convey mood and emotion. Vulnerable stick-like figures become dominated by giant war machines in scenes that strip humanity of its individualism. German medallists

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were also keen to consider the collateral effects of war, depicting refugees displaced by invasion or people starving as a result of food shortages. This showed the totality of the First World War in a way that eluded most contemporary medals made in Allied countries.

Due to their use of pro-German propaganda, wartime Britain regarded these medals with outrage. Despite this, the British Museum was highly proactive in acquiring them, realising their significance as historical documents. A century on, this display of medals from the collection offers a fresh perspective to our understanding of life and death during the First World War.

Cyprus Banknotes. Environment-History-Folk Art. Their iconography through the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collections

May 2014 - June 2015On Friday, 16 May 2014, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation opened the periodical exhibition “Cyprus Banknotes. Environment-History-Folk Art. Their iconography through the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collections”. The exhibition is organised by the Museum of the History of Cypriot Coinage and the Bank of Cyprus Historical Archive.

The exhibition presents a selection of landmarks from 1914, which marked the first issue of a Cypriot banknote by the British, to 1955. It goes on to explore more extensively the iconography of the series of banknotes of the Republic of Cyprus issued from 1961 to 1997, pivoting around the environment, History and Folk Art of Cyprus.

The aim is to open up routes connecting the iconography of banknotes of the Republic of Cyprus to items from the Collections of the Cultural Foundation, namely the Ethnographic Collection, the Numismatic Collection, the Map Collection, the Collection of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the Collection of Engravings, Old Photographs and Watercolours.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1914 issue of the first British colonial banknote of Cyprus. In terms of their themes, British banknotes feature portraits of En-glish reigning kings as well as emblems, such as the coat of arms depict-ing the two lions of King Richard the Lionheart, who conquered Cyprus during the Third Cru-sade in 1191. Even though a map of Cyprus does appear for the first time on banknotes of Queen Elis-abeth II, Cypri-ot themes are generally absent from the design of the first banknotes issued by the British during the reigns of George V (1910-1936), George VI (1936-1952) and Elisa-beth II (1952 onwards).

Four stamps issued in 1938 during the reign of George VI were used in 1942 in the form of emergency currency and for stamping documents. These stamps, worth ½, 1, 3, and 4½ piastres, depict archaeological sites and monuments of Cyprus.

The series of banknotes of the Republic of Cyprus issued from 1961 to 1997 draw their themes from the island’s rich history and art, as well as from its natural environment. The texts accompanying the representations on the banknotes are intended to bring out the island’s historical and artistic background, the wealth of its fauna and flora, unique on several occasions, as well as the mineral riches of our homeland. The banknotes of the Republic of Cyprus were in circulation until the euro banknotes were introduced in 2008.

The exhibition texts are in Greek and in English and it is also accompanied by a catalogue under the same title, again in Greek and in English.

For more information visit the website

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation86-90 Phaneromenis Street

Nicosia, 1011. www.boccf.org Tel.: +35722128157 Fax: +35722662898

‘Kitchener’s dream’, cast iron medal by Hans Lindl, Germany, 1915, 82 x 53 mm.

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Exposición temporal Historias metálicas Arte y poder en la medalla europea

17 de octubre de 2014 a septiembre 2015

El Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya presenta la exposición temporal “Historias metálicas. Arte y poder en la medalla europea” que está previsto permanezca abierta al público hasta el mes de septiembre del 2015.

La muestra se presenta en la sala temporal de numismática del Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya en su sede del Palau Nacional, en Barcelona, y cuenta con la edición de un catálogo en el que han participado reputados especialistas europeos en la materia como Sylvie de Turckheim-Pey, William Eisler, Jean-Marie Darnis, Javier Gimeno, Marina Cano, Lucie Moriceau, Julio Torres, Víctor Mínguez y Cristina Fontcuberta. El objetivo de la exposición es presentar al público una visión de conjunto europea de la medalla conmemorativa y de la formación y desarrollo del fenómeno de las series de medallas acuñadas o recogidas en libros bajo el título de historias metálicas.

Albert [email protected]

Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya / MNACPalau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc

08038 Barcelona

La Colección Numismática en la nueva exposición permanente del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid)

El pasado 31 de marzo, el Museo Arqueológico Nacional abrió de nuevo sus salas con una exposición totalmente renovada. En esta nueva ordenación, las colecciones numismáticas se exhiben con dos criterios diferentes. Por un lado, el área monográfica La moneda, algo más que dinero propone un recorrido temático, enfocado a mostrar la singularidad de la moneda como la forma de dinero más reconocible y perdurable a lo largo del tiempo. A través de escogidos ejemplos, se explican distintos aspectos conceptuales, simbólicos y prácticos vinculados a la moneda, desde sus diversos usos o el proceso de fabricación, hasta los elementos formales que la convierten en medio de expresión del poder que la acuña, fuente para la Historia y la Arqueología, objeto de prestigio a imitar o inspiración para el Arte. La exposición

muestra también otros objetos y materiales que entran dentro del ámbito numismático, como el dinero tradicional, los sistemas ponderales, las cajas de cambistas o el papel moneda, presentando las circunstancias históricas y sociales en las que se inscriben. Para terminar, una serie de vitrinas y recursos museográficos se centran en la Numismática como disciplina científica, señalando cómo abordar el estudio de las monedas y cómo extraer de ellas toda la información que aportan.

Por otra parte, las piezas numismáticas se integran en el amplio itinerario cronológico del Museo que recorre la Historia de España, así como en las áreas dedicadas a Egipto y Grecia. En coordinación con cada uno de los departamentos responsables, se tomó la decisión de reflejar no sólo los sistemas monetarios de cada momento, sino también de utilizar las monedas, medallas, sellos y matrices como los documentos arqueológicos que son, insertándolos dentro de su contexto histórico y de uso. Con la misma intención, las piezas más conocidas de la colección –el cuaternión de Augusto, la gran dobla de Pedro I, el centén de Felipe IV- han encontrado su sitio en la época a la que pertenecen, como parte esencial del Patrimonio Cultural que representan.Paula Grañeda MiñónDepartamento de Numismática y Medallística, MAN

From a Thankful Nation Latin American Medals & Orders in the Robert L. Ross Collection

From February 25, 2014 Main Exhibition Gallery of Firestone Library. Princeton University.

In celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Latin America’s wars of independence, the Princeton University Library has mounted a dramatic display of medals and orders that illustrate the recognitions awarded to soldiers and civilians in the form of wearable insignia.

The exhibition features hundreds of Latin American decorations, ranging from a plain silver medal awarded to an officer of the Buenos Aires armed forces that freed Montevideo from Spanish colonial rule in 1814, to Guatemala’s highest award given to foreign presidents, the Collar of the Order of the Quetzal with its Mayan motifs, to a gilt example of the Cuban Order of Che Guevara, awarded for assistance to Latin America’s

James Mudie, Historical and Critical Account of a Grand Series of National Medals, Londres, 1820

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many left-wing movements of national liberation. Unlike the United States, which has generally avoided the award and wearing of medals as a vestige of European royal practice, the Spanish-, Portuguese-, and French-speaking nations of the New World have embraced such displays as tangible expressions of appreciation for the efforts of their soldiers and citizens.

Miguel Angel Centeno, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Chair of Princeton’s Department of Sociology, writes in his introduction to the exhibition catalogue, “These medals and orders allow us a unique perspective on the development of Latin American states and the qualities they have chosen to represent and reward.” On Sunday, April 13, at 3 p.m., Professor Centeno gave a public lecture on the ideals exemplified by the pieces in the exhibition. The lecture in McCormick Hall 101 was preceded by a curatorial tour of the exhibition at 1:30 p.m. and followed by a reception in the Main Gallery. Additional curatorial tours took place on Friday, February 28, and Thursday, May 29, at 3 p.m.

The exhibition is based on the collection assembled by Robert L. Ross, a retired investment banker who worked throughout his career to improve living standards in Latin America as the best way to promote democratic rule and civil society. Ross has donated his medals to the Princeton University Numismatic Collection for study, research, and teaching purposes in support of the University’s Program in Latin American Studies. This gift has made Princeton’s holdings the world’s most comprehensive collection of Latin American orders and medals.

“From a Thankful Nation” traces the development of Latin American medals from their origins in the emblems of medieval crusading knights and the Spanish, Portuguese, and French royal and imperial orders through the revolutionary battles and the building of republics throughout the region. The use of medals as part of the governing strategies of dictatorial caudillos and adventuring “filibusters” is illustrated by such pieces as the pearl-adorned example of the Grand Cross badge of the Juan Pablo Duarte Order of the Dominican Republic that the dictator Rafael Trujillo, as grand master of the order, awarded to himself. While tracing the awards to common soldiers and laborers, the exhibition is most eye-catching with the display of no fewer than ten examples of Collars, the highest grade

of an order (usually reserved for heads of state), as well as seventy Grand Cross sets, most replete with brightly colored silk sashes enameled gilt badges, and breast stars.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue written by Ross and Princeton’s Curator of Numismatics, Alan Stahl. In 736 pages of text and with 969 color photographs, it sets all of the official medals of each country in their historical context. The catalogue is for sale from the Library for $125; inquiries should be directed to [email protected]. The exhibition is also documented in a fully illustrated website: http://rbsc.princeton.edu/thankful-nation/.

“From a Thankful Nation” runs from February 25 through August 3 and is open to the public without charge on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.

Further information is available from Princeton’s Curator of Numismatics, Alan Stahl, [email protected], (609) 258-9127.

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Neue Ausstellung im Münzkabinett Winterthur: Momente der Ewigkeit – Italienische Medaillen der Renaissance

bis 19. April 2015

Die neue Wechselausstellung des Münzkabinetts Winterthur präsentiert rund 60 Medaillen aus einer bedeutenden Schweizer Privatsammlung und aus dem eigenen Fundus. Zu sehen sind Werke der besten Medailleure der italienischen Renaissance wie Pisanello, Fiorentino, Matteo de‘ Pasti, Sperandio, Lysippus oder Giovanni Boldù.Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien ist in unserer Wahrnehmung bis heu-te durch starke Bilder beeinflusst; sie gilt als Epoche des Umbruchs und einer Neubesin-nung im Geiste des Humanismus. Zwei Elemente gelten als prägend: Die Herausbildung des Menschen als Individuum und der folgenreiche Rückgriff auf Werte, Figuren und Ästhetik der Antike als Traditionsanker der Kultur.Auf der italienischen Halbinsel mit ihrer Mi- schung aus Reichtum und einer vielgestaltigen politischen Landschaft gab es zahlreiche Fürstenhöfe, die in der Spannung zwischen Macht und Kunst, krie- gerischer Grausam-keit und verfeiner- ter höfischer Kultur lebten. Die Städte entwickelten eine enorme politische wie wirtschaftliche Dyna-mik.In diesem Umfeld ent-stand eine neue Kunst-form, die Medaille. Als portables Kleinkunst-werk, das in der Hand liegt, in kleiner Auflage hergestellt wird und dauerhaft ist, erfüllte die Medaille den Wunsch nach kleinen Momenten der Ewigkeit auf hervorragende Weise. In den Darstellungen begegnete das Flüchtige dem Unsterblichen. Die Medaille versprach fama (Ruhm) und memoria (Gedenken).Als Objekte, die nicht dem Warentausch dienten, waren Medaillen die perfekte Gabe: Sie wurden im Freundes- und Familienkreis verteilt, Gästen gewidmet und auch gesammelt. In Bauten wurden Medaillen als Grundsteingaben für die «Ewigkeit» deponiert. Medaillen waren auf Grund ihrer Grösse auch besonders für

Historias en miniatura. Nuestras primeras monedas

16 July – 12 October Museu de Prehistòria de València

The temporary exhibition “Historias en miniatura. Nues-tras primeras monedas” (Stories in miniature. Our first coins) was inaugurated in Valencia on 16 July in the Mu-seu de Prehistòria de València. The exhibition includes a selection of Greek, Punic, Hispano-Carthaginian, Iberian,

Celtiberian and Roman Provincial coins minted in the Iberian Peninsu-la. It shows the public the latest numismatic acquisitions by the Mu-seum, including some coins purchased from the former collection of the Hispanic Society of America.The collection is pre-sented through an educational assembly in-tended for a wide au-dience. An interactive question and answer game challenges the visitor to discover the most important secrets of these coins. Show-cases with short texts, drawings and ques-tions invite to reflect on various subjects of the ancient coinages of the Iberian Peninsula.We invite you to down-load the catalogue of the exhibition and to play an amazing online quiz game on ancient Iberian coins.

Manuel [email protected]

Museu de Prehistoria de València

Calle Corona 3646003 Valencia

Pisanello (1395-1455), Medaille auf Francesco Sforza, um 1441. - Privatsammlung Schweiz.

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Pisanello (1395-1455), Medaille auf Cecilia Gonzaga (1424-1451), 1447. - Privatsam-

mlung Schweiz. - Privatsammlung Schweiz. Foto: Lübke & Wiedemann, Stuttgart.

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das menschliche Porträt geeignet, das in dieser Zeit aufkam: Die Medaille erlaubte, noch vor dem Gemälde, die Darstellung von Kaufleuten, Gelehrten und anderen Personen der gesellschaftlichen Oberschicht ausserhalb der Höfe.

Benedikt ZächMünzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur

Villa Bühler, Lindstrasse 8, 8402 WinterthurInformationen zu Veranstaltungen: www.muenzkabinett.ch

Öffnungszeiten: Dienstag, Mittwoch, Samstag, Sonntag, 14-17 Uhr(Montag, Donnerstag, Freitag geschlossen)

Das Buch zur Ausstellung:Peter Volz, Medaillen und Plaketten der Renaissance, München:

Hirmer, 2013.Zum Spezialpreis von CHF 60.- im Museumsshop erhältlich.

Wettstreit im Erz. Die Porträtmedaille in der deutschen Renaissance

10.10.2013 – 15.3.2014 München, Staatliche Münzsammlung3.6.2014 – 25.1.2015 Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Münzkabinett

Die großen Münzkabinette in Wien, München und Dresden haben sich zu einer Ausstellung zusammengeschlossen, welche erstmals ausgewählte Stücke der deutschen Porträtmedaille der Renaissance vereinigt.

Reproduzierbar, leicht transportabel und verteilbar, liefert die Kunstgattung der Porträtmedaille für das 16. Jahrhundert ein einzigartiges “Who’s who“. Dank der Dauerhaftigkeit des Materials hat sich eine große Anzahl an Medaillen erhalten, insbesondere aus den ehemals kaiserlichen und fürstlichen Sammlungen in Wien, München und Dresden.

Ausstellung und Katalog stellen erstmals umfassend das kulturhistorische Spektrum, die komplexe Medialität und die dynamische Geographie der im deutschsprachigen Raum entstandenen und zirkulierenden Medaillen der frühen Neuzeit vor.

Katalog : W. Cupperi, M. Hirsch, A. Kranz, U. Pfisterer (Hrsg.), Wettstreit in Erz. Porträtmedaillen der deutschen Renaissance (München, Deutscher Kunstverlag 2013). Der Katalog kann über die Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Residenzstr. 1, 80333 München bezogen werden.

100 Köpfe - gestaltet vom Bildhauer, Kupfer- stecher und Medailleur Hubertus von Pilgrim

15. Mai 2014 - 5. Oktober 2014

Der Bildhauer, Kupferstecher und Medailleur Hubertus von Pilgrim, Jahrgang 1931, ist von humanistisch-literarischer Bildung geprägt, sie ist für seine Persönlichkeit und für seine Kunst konstitutiv. Er fand in Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte und des Geistes “Gesprächspartner” und eine künstlerische Herausforderung. So entstand auf Medaillen wie in der Plastik eine eindrucksvolle Porträtgalerie, begleitet von einer intensiven geistigen Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Werk.

Zur Medaille ist Hubertus von Pilgrim erst spät gekommen. Erst 1984 hat er, der sich selbst einmal als “Hauer und Stecher” bezeichnete, durch einen Auftrag zu dieser kleinen Sonderform des Reliefs gefunden. Seitdem reizt ihn das “Wechselspiel zwischen Miniatur und Monument”, wie er es selbst genannt hat, und so entstanden auch raumgreifende Monumente auf der Grundlage von Medaillen wie der Ludwig-Erhard-Brunnen in Bad Godesberg. Ebenso reizt den Künstler das Wechselspiel von Bild und Schrift in der Form einer prägnanten, in eine kalligraphische Form gebrachten sprachlichen Aussage.

Die Ausstellung zeigt berühmte und andere Köpfe, darunter eine neu entstandene monumentale Reliefwand mit Porträts und Zitaten von Schriftstellern. Weitere Arbeiten runden die Ausstellung ab, so Kupferstiche, die chinesische Dichtung ins Bild setzen, plastische Werke mit der Darstellung von größeren Menschengruppen, und Medaillen, die Zitate und Sprichwörter in eine adäquate reliefplastische Form bringen.

Hubertus von Pilgrim 1931 geboren in Berlin, 1951–1954 Unterweisung durch Erich Heckel und gleichzeitig Studium (Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Philosophie) in Heidelberg. 1954–1960 Bildhauerstudium in Berlin bei Bernhard Heiliger

Meister der Beltzinger, Amalie Beltzinger, 1530, Buchsbaumholz, München, Staatliche Münzsammlung

Medaille auf Hermann Hesse, 2003 © Hubertus von Pilgrim (Foto: Nicolai Kästner)

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(Meisterschüler). Anschließend zur Vervollkommnung in der Kupferstichtechnik in Paris bei Stanley W. Hayter. 1961/62 Stipendiat in der Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano. 1963 Berufung an die Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, anschließend 1977–1995 Professor an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, seitdem freischaffend tätig. Im öffentlichen Auftrag entstanden bedeutende Werke, durchgängig dabei das Thema “Denkmal”.

Staatliche Münzsammlung München | Residenzstraße 1 (Eingang Kapellenhof) D-80333 München

Dr. Dietrich Klose [email protected]

Zwei Ausstellungen des Münzkabinetts der Stadt Winterthur zu den Medailleuren Aberli

Johann und Friedrich Aberli – Zwei Winterthurer Medailleure, Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur (bis 30. November 2014)

Zurück aus Wien – Die goldene Winterthurer Ju-biläumsmedaille von 1864, Münzkabinett der Stadt Winterthur (bis 30. November)

Zwei der bedeutendsten Schwei- zer Künstler des 19. Jahr-

hunderts auf dem Gebiet der Graveurskunst und des Steinschnitts waren Winterthurer. Johann Aberli (1774–1851) und sein Sohn, Fried- rich Aberli (1800–1872), arbeiteten als Medailleure eng

zusammen und waren herausragende Siegel-

stecher und Steinschnei-der.

Im Zusammenhang mit der Ausstellung «HOME GROWN» des Muse-ums Oskar Reinhart er-gab sich für das Münz- kabinett Winterthur zum ersten Mal die Gele-

genheit einer Retro-spektive, die das ganze Oeuvre der beiden Aberli mit ingesamt 30 Me-daillen, mehre- ren Münzen und gegen 1200 Sie-gelstempel in Halb-

edelsteinen und Metall umfasst.

Die Ausstellung ist ein Bei- trag des Münzkabinetts zum Jubiläum «Winter- thur750». Sie gibt Ein- blick in die Entstehung der Medaillen vom

Entwurf bis zur Ausführung, zeichnet die Biographie der beiden Künstler im Zeitkontext nach und zeigt eine Auswahl aus der grössten Werkgruppe, den Siegeln. Das Werk der beiden Aberli besteht ausschliesslich aus Auftragsarbeiten. Der Stil der Medaillen wurde beeinflusst durch ihre reiche Erfahrung mit Siegeln und geschnittenen Steinen. Vater und Sohn Aberli bildeten ihre besondere Fähigkeit, das kleine Rund der Medaille mit feinsten Elementen elegant zu nutzen, bei der Gravur von Halbedelsteinen für Siegelringe höchster Qualität aus.

Eine zweite Ausstellung im Münzkabinett ist ein weiterer Beitrag zum Jubiläum «Winterthur750». 1864 feierte Winterthur mit grossem Aufwand das 600-Jahr-Jubiläum der Verleihung des Stadtrechts durch Rudolf von Habsburg im Jahr 1264. Die Stadt hatte das Bedürfnis, mit dem Blick in die Vergangenheit eine äusserst dynamische Gegenwart in die Gründungsgeschichte des Gemeinwesens einzubetten.

Zur Erinnerung wurde eine Medaille geprägt. Ihr Schöpfer war Friedrich Aberli. Nur ein Exemplar der Medaille wurde in Gold hergestellt. Es diente als Geschenk für den Nachfahren Rudolfs von Habsburg, Kaiser Franz Joseph I. von Habsburg-Österreich. Heute wird diese einzigartige Medaille im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien aufbewahrt. Zum Jubiläum «Winterthur750» kehrt dieses Stück wieder nach Winterthur zurück.

Für das Geschenk aus Winterthur revanchierte sich der Kaiser 1864 mit einem opulenten Gegengeschenk, einem Buch mit Ansichten aus Ägypten. Das Prachtswerk ist ein Zeugnis für die Orientbegeisterung der Zeit. Es ist mit einem kostbaren Einband versehen und wurde im selben Jahr in Winterthur und im Bundeshaus in Bern stolz ausgestellt. Das Buch, das von den Winterthurer Bibliotheken gehütet wird, ist ebenfalls im Münzkabinett zu sehen.

Benedikt Zächwww.muenzkabinett.ch

www.museumoskarreinhart.chwww.winterthur750.ch

Websites

Databases Royal Library of Belgium

The Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium digitised a large number of medals and coins the past few years. Although the work is still far from finished, some collections are already available for researchers. You can access the database following this link.

All objects are presented with an image of the obverse and reverse, a description in French or Dutch and the weight, diameter and material.

In total, more than 22.400 descriptions are available online and work progresses on a daily base. The database covers mainly Belgian medals from 1794 and is up-to-date until 1911.

A second group are the Catholic religious medals from the Ancien Regime (16th – 18th century). This collection,

Friedrich Aberli, Medaille auf die 600-Jahr-Feier der Stadtrechtsrechts-verleihung an Winterthur, 1864. Gold. - Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Inv.Nr. MK 12130ß. Foto: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien.

Friedrich Aberli, Medaille auf das 400-Jahr-Jubiläum der Gesellschaft der Böcke in Zürich, 1844. Silber. - Münz- kabinett Winterthur, Inv.Nr. Md 586. Foto: Lübke & Wiedemann, Stuttgart.

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New Publications

Hoards, sites and stray findsThe Journal of Archaeological Numismatics, vol. 3, 2013. CEN. Bruxelles.

The Journal of Archaeological Numismatics (JAN) is a new periodical published by the Centre Européen d’Etudes Nu-mismatiques (CEN) in Bruxelles. Its aims is to bring together archaeology and numismat-ics, two disciplines that are too often viewed as very dif-ferent despite their obvious links. The journal is a tool which aims to be a forum allowing archaeologists, numisma-tists and specialists in other auxiliary disciplines aware of these problems to come together to compare their data systematically. Bring-ing together information un-der the same roof will enable readers - archaeologists, numismatists, ceramicists, economists and historians - to appreciate the impor-tance of interpretation, for all relevant information can be included in the same piece of work.

Table of contents- The chairman’s address. Entre amulettes et talismán, les monnaies trouées : ce qui se cache sous les apparences.

Articles:- Helle W. Horsnæs, Michael Märcher & Michael Vennersdorf A stepping stone in the Baltic sea. Two millennia of coin finds and coin use - a case study of Vester Herred, Bornholm.- Massimiliano Munzi. The Tripolitanian countryside and a monetary economy: data from the archaeological survey of the territory of Leptis Magna (Libya).- Jean-Marc Doyen, Samuel Lelarge, Guillaume Florent, Tarek Oueslati & Mélani Demarest, avec la collaboration de Jan Minne et une annexe de Roland Delmaire. La circulation monétaire sous les Valentiniens et les Théodosiens (364-vers 420) dans le nord-ouest de la Gaule : l’apport des fouilles de la rue du Warnier à Nempont-Saint-Firmin (Pas-de-Calais, France).- Marie Maury & Jean-Marc Doyen. La sépulture 427 de la nécropole des Sablons à Luxé (Charente, France) et le monnayage pseudo-impérial d’argent de Valentinien III (425-455).- Álvaro Fernández-Flores, Ruth Pliego-Vázques & Gabriel Caravajal. Nuevos hallazgos de bronces visigodos en la provincia de Sevilla: una aproximación metrológica y de composición metálica.

Review Article:- Christian Lauwers. Monnaies romaines de site : de la Bretagne à la Baltique.

Lavinia SOLE, Gli indIgeni e la moneta. Rinvenimenti monetali e associazioni contestuali dai centri dell’entroterra siciliano,Triskeles, Collana di studi archeologici, 2012, Salvatore Sciascia Editore. ISBN: 978-88-8241-411-5.

L’entroterra siciliano e, in particolare, il territorio ricadente nei confini dell’attuale provincia di Caltanissetta, ha restituito nel corso delle indagini archeologiche condotte negli ultimi sessanta anni, una consistente documentazione monetale.

about 1.340 objects, is only a small part of the total of 25.000 religious medals kept at the Coin Cabinet, but most of these are 19 th and 20th century objects.

The third group of objects in our online catalogue is the Dupont collection of 1.385 bas-reliefs, acquired by the King Baudouin Foundation and deposited in the Coin Cabinet. These are metal plaquettes, sometimes of considerable size, and date between 1870 and 1930. They represent the artwork of 137 artists and medal manufacturers.

A fourth group that is available online covers our siege coins. These are made of silver, copper, but also lead, tin and even cardboard. They are an important witness of the numerous wars and sieges in the Netherlands between the 16th and the early 19th century. 360 objects can be consulted in the database.

The fifth online dataset is the Lefébure collection, a series of more than 8.800 decorations and medals, all made during the First World War. More than 5.000 decorations have already been digitalized. The aim is to make the whole collection accessible by 2017.

The digitization of our collections continues every day. A large number of objects is in process of being digitalised and/or published in our database, such as the coins of Liège from the 10th century until 1792, a large collection of late Roman nummi from Alexandria, Egypt, Roman Republican and Roman Julio-Claudian coins.

To research our database, it is important to know what keywords to use in the different fields. If you want to consult the religious medals on the French page, you have to insert the keywords “médailles religieuses” in the field “type d’objet”. The same applies to the siege coins, where you insert the keywords “monnaie obsidionale” and the Belgian medals, with the keyword “médaille”. That way, you will only search in the specified type of objects, and not the whole catalogue.

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decision was taken to incorporate all the material of Supplements 1, 2, and 3 in one single Supplement, which will be available on-line for the next Congress in Taormina (Sept. 2015).We are very grateful to the American Numismatic Society for hosting the publication. It can be downloaded at the ANS website.

John A. N. Z. TULLY, The Island Standard: The Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Coinages of Paros, New York: American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Studies Volume 28, 2014, 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-89722-329-4.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the monetary history of one of the major coin-producing states of the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean. It analyzes the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman coinages of the Cycladic island of Paros. It presents a die study of all known silver and bronze issues, and argues that Paros and its neighbor Naxos minted in the Hellenistic Period not on the Rhodian standard as has sometimes been thought, but on their own distinct standard: the ‘island standard’. All coin types are fully described, and die varieties are illustrated in 27 plates.

S. NIETO-PELLETIER, Catalogue des monnaies celtiques, 1 Les Arvernes, BNF / MAN, Paris, 2013, broché, 320 p., 550 monnaies, XVI planches. ISBN/EAN 978-2-7177-2566-7 / 9782717725667

Né de la volonté de procéder à un nouveau traitement des collections du Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques de la BNF et au récolement des collections du Musée d’Archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, le catalogue des monnaies celtiques attribuées aux Arvernes est le premier volume d’une série consacrée au fonds de monnaies celtiques de la BnF et du MAN, auxquels s’ajoutent, pour le présent ouvrage, les exemplaires conservés au musée national du Moyen Âge, musée de Cluny. Cette série, qui se substituera progressivement au catalogue publié en 1889 par E. Muret et A. Chabouillet, a pour objectif, par la mise à disposition de plusieurs fonds nationaux, de constituer une collection de référence facilitant les identifications et publications des monnaies découvertes. Chaque volume comportera une présentation de l’état de la recherche.574 monnaies attribuées aux Arvernes ont donc été

L’analisi di tali monete, condotta parallelamente a quella dei materiali rinvenuti nei relativi contesti archeologici, ha permesso di trarre delle considerazioni significative sull’”usi

monetari” delle popolazioni anelleniche di questa parte della Sicilia.Sulla base delle evidenze raccolte, sembra infatti che i gruppi umani che occupavano questo territorio, prevalentemente Indigeni di etnia sicana, ma anche genti di altra provenienza e, dal IV secolo a.C., soprattutto nuclei di origine mercenariale, non emisero moneta, se non episodicamente, e tardarono ad acquisire una vera e propria “cultura monetaria”. Nonostante, a partire dall’ultimo venticinquennio del V secolo a. C., le monete si diffusero in modo sempre più ampio in questo territorio, infatti pare che tali comunità non compresero mai appieno

l’originaria struttura di questo strumento di scambio, espressione propria della cultura greca, e rimasero legate al consolidato uso del metallo a peso nelle transazioni, continuando a considerare la moneta alla stregua di un oggetto o di un pezzo di metallo.

Ancient Numismatics

Michel AMANDRY, Andrew BURNETT, Ian CARRADICE, Pere Pau RIPOLLÈS, Marguerite SPOERRI BUTCHER, Roman Provincial Coinage, Supplement 3, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2014. vi + 95 pp. ISBN: 978-0-89722-333-1.

The first Supplement was published in 1998 and covered much new material that had appeared for the Julio-Claudian period between the date of the first publication of RPC I in 1992 and 1997. The second reprinting - in 2006 - of RPC I was the occasion to publish also a second

Supplement to RPC. This new Supplement, Supplement 3, includes new material from 2005 to 2013, and covers the Julio-Claudian period (RPC I), the Flavian period (RPC II) as well as the coinages of Gordian I to Gordian III struck in the province of Asia (RPC VII, 1).The material has been ar-ranged in three sequential parts, the first covering RPC I, the second covering RPC II and the third RPC VII, 1.The decision to publish the second Supplement on-line rather than as a book was taken for three reasons: first of all, it was easier; second it improved access for schol-

ars, collectors, museum curators and other users; and thirdly, an electronic version was easier to search. The idea was well received, so the third Supplement is pub-lished the same way.Of course, we all know the difficulty of searching trough a Supplement, needless to say 3 Supplements! So the

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Medieval, Modern and Contemporary NumismaticsIssa M. BAIDOUN, - with a contribution by W. C. Schultz. Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Israel Museum. The Paul Balog Collection. Egypt vol. III The Mamlūks 1248-1517, Bernardi Numismatica & EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2011, 205 p., ill. ISBN 9788885873360.

The series, in seven volumes, will be published with finan-cial support from Bernardi Numismatica srl in collabora-tion with the Edizioni dell’Università di Trieste.The present volume is the first in a se-ries devoted to the Islamic coins in the collection of The Israel Museum, Je-rusalem. The majority of these coins were donated to the Museum by the late Paul Balog. The Israel Mu-seum is proud to continue Balog’s legacy by making his rich coin collection available to the public. The adoption of the Sylloge format, organized by indi-vidual mints, is best suited to the needs of scholars of political and monetary his-tory. The Egyptian series is by far the strongest in Ba-log’s collection, and one of the largest of its kind. Ap-propriately, the Mamlūk mints of Egypt were chosen to be the subject of the first volume of the series. The curators of the Sylloge are Stefan Heidemann, Hamburg University and Haim Gitler, Archaeology and Numismatic Curator of Israel Museum.

Giulio BERNARDI, Arabic Gold Coins Corpus 1 - Second revised Edition 2012, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2012, 425 p., ill. ISBN 9788883033711.

Now, at long last, the world of Islamic numismatics has been provided with a com-prehensive compilation guide to the first period of Islamic gold coinage from the time of the Umayyad caliph ‘Abd al-Malik bin Marwan until the deposi-tion of the Abbasid caliph al-Mustakfi in 334 Hijra (946 CE). Giulio Bernardi’s corpus is a labour of in-defatigable and dedicated scholarship which puts all other such works in the shade. This book is a truly great achievement which should stand the test of time and will be used by the many people who have the good fortune to turn its pages from the time of its pub-lication and in the years to come.In 2011, the first edition obtained the Shamir Samma Prize/Royal Numismatic Society of London.

cataloguées, décrites et photographiées, parmi lesquelles, près de 330 ont été analysées à l’Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux, Centre Ernest-Babelon, CNRS à Orléans. Précédant le catalogue, une synthèse, riche de nombreux graphiques, photographies et cartes de répartition, propose une étude du monnayage arverne selon une approche pluridisciplinaire associant données typologiques, métrologiques, analytiques, archéologiques et historiques. Ainsi, après avoir fait le point sur les classements existants et les modalités d’attribution des monnaies à l’espace géographique considéré, l’auteur souligne l’apport de l’étude de la composition métallique des monnaies à la compréhension des pratiques monétaires, propose une chronologie des émissions à partir de l’ensemble des données obtenues et présente un panorama de la circulation monétaire arverne.Cet ouvrage a reçu le prix Toutain-Blanchet 2014, décerné par l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.

Sylvia Nieto-PelletierCNRS IRAMAT

R. LEHMANN et al. (Hrsg.), Nub Nefer - Gutes Gold. Gedenkschrift für Manfred Gutgesell. Hannoversche Numismatische Beiträge 1, Rahden, 2014. 336 Seiten, 243 Abbildungen, 3 Tabellen. ISBN 978-3-86757-686-4

lm Dezember 2011 verstarb völlig unerwartet der Ägyptologe, Numismatiker und langjährige Präsident der Numismatischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover, Dr. Manfred Gutgesell. Mit einer Gedenkschrift anlässlich eines Festakts zum 65. Geburtstag von M. Gutgesell wenden sich 29 Autoren ein letztes Mal mit numismatischen bzw. ägyptologischen Fragestellungen und Diskursen sowie neuen und neuesten Erkenntnissen zu Münzen und

Medaillen von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit an einen guten Freund, Mentor und Berater, geschätzten Kollegen, langjährigen Präsidenten und Fachmann. Die Gedenkschrift enthält ein Vorwort der Herausgeber, Erinnerungen an Manfred “Rudi” Gutgesell [1948-2011] und seinen Einsatz für die Ausstellung “Olympia - Geld und Sport in der Antike” von 2004, ein Schriftenverzeichnis des Geehrten sowie 25 Aufsätze und einen Anhang mit Anzeigen. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit der Geschichte der Numismatischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover, ägyptischen Münzen, Münzgeld in attischen Komödien,

diversen griechischen Münzen und Medaillons, einem Denar / Quinar mit Eisenkern, Caesars spanischer Statthalterschaft im Münzbild, römischen Silberbarren, astrologischen Konzeptionszeichen auf antiken Münzen, Münzen der Kaiser Claudius und Caracalla, ägyptischen Gottheiten in Kleinasien, Elefanten in der Kunst des Altertums, frühen Münzen aus Merseburg, einem angelsächsischen Münzmeister, dem Münzhandel um 1600, Spottmünzen und Münzenspott im 17. Jh., Alexandermünzen im Königlichen Münzkabinett Berlin um 1818, numismatischen Erlebnissen auf August Kestners Sizilienreise 1824, römischem Schwergeld der Sammlung Haeberlin, Geld und Geldwert in Abessinien sowie Münzhandel und Sorgfaltspflicht.


Paul Rubens and executed by a group of local painters and sculptors, including Jacob Jordaens, Theodoor van Thulden, and Jan van den Hoecke. To commemorate the event, the city commissioned a lavish festival book, entitled the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi (1641), which contains learned commen-taries by Jan Gaspar Gevaerts, a city official and Latinist, as well as folio engravings by Theodoor van Thulden af-ter Rubens’s stages. More than a simple description of the event, Gevaerts’ volume offers a rich com-pilation of references to ancient writers and repro-ductions of ancient coins. While most literature on the subject has focused on Rubens’s nine mon-umental arches and his twelve preparatory oil sketches for the designs, this volume will examine the entry and its accom-panying festival book as a whole. A group of highly distinguished specialists from different disciplines will dis-cuss the entry and Gevaerts’ book from a myriad of view-points, including art, architecture, music, theater, history, politics, classical knowledge, and economic and intellectual networks. It is the first time that the entry will be examined from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. The book draws on a wide variety of primary sources, including Rubens’s preparatory oil sketches, Gevaerts’ festival book, pamphlets describing the entry, and political songs from the period.

Julio J. RAMÓN SÁNCHEZ, El tresor de Sant Joan d’Alacant, Alicante: MARQ - Museo Arqueológico de Alicante, 2013, 151 pp. ISBN 978-84-15327-36-3.

En este libro se estudia el tesoro hallado el año 1963 en una casa de Sant Joan d’Alacant, compuesto por 501 monedas de oro y plata acuñadas entre los años 1708 y 1823, siendo las monedas emitidas en esta última fecha las que datan su ocultación.Se recogen las circunstancias del hallazgo, el recorrido que siguió hasta el MARQ-Museo Arqueológico de Alicante y los trámites realizados por las administraciones implica-das. Los datos recopila-dos permiten identificar a su propietario, Antonio Quereda Chápuli, y es-bozar su contexto socio-económico: el año 1784 trabajaba como criado y el 1803 como jornalero, lo que coincide con la conclusión extraída del análisis numismático del conjunto, que muestra determinadas singulari-dades que indican que su propietario debió trabajar como jornalero. La ocultación se relacio-na con la inestabilidad generada en la comarca de l’Alacantí tras la intervención del ejército francés cono-cido como los “Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis”, que junto a los realistas españoles repuso a Fernando VII como monarca absoluto y produjo el final del Trienio Liberal. En este clima

Paolo EVANGELISTI, Francesc Eiximenis. Il Dodicesimo Libro del Cristiano; capp. 139-152 e 193-197”, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste 2013, pp. 244. ISBN 978-88-8303-524-1.

The book offers for the first time in Italian translation the thoughts in old Catalan of the mid-14th century Catalan Franciscan friar.The status of money, considered as an institution of the community, is focused upon by an expert on voluntary pov-erty: Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan friar. The analysis on the nature, character and function of money produces some relevant results, especially from a political viewpoint. Who exercises the sovereignty, control of the value and circulation of money? Which kinds of relations are estab-lished between ‘princeps’/ruler, community and money? ‘Maiestas’, supremacy are princely features, princely char-acters or are they prerogatives of money that is instituted, created for change and justice in the ‘polis’? Which juridical

apparatus, which political and institutional form can operate to preserve the peculiar value of money: its stability? These questions touch on many as-pects of what will become the economic thinking during the Early modern period and also the dogmatic thought about money, starting from the texts written by Copernic, Bodin and Locke; but it is clear that money, not conceived as a mere coin, assumes a more important role: it becomes the object by which it is possible to think about the same con-cept of power and sovereignty. Besides these topics, where institutional and political ex-periences of Italian cities are

observed with deep interest, another notable matter comes to light summarized in one key-question written by the Fri-ar himself: ‘How is it possible to use money to achieve a large, diffused and communitarian wealth?’ Eiximenis deals with all these issues, placing them within the European de-bate on these subjects. The Franciscan doesn’t use Latin for this work: he writes in Catalan vernacular. A language that is read and written by people living in the territories of the Crown extending from Valencia to Palermo, from Barcelona to Sardinia, with important settlements on the eastern and southern Mediterranean coasts. The arguments discussed in these chapters are also remarkable because they were inserted in the ‘Twelfth Book of Christian’, a work of civic and political education addressed to the rulers of realms and cities that were forming one of the most important political and economic entities flourishing in Europe between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Anna C. KNAAP and Michael C. J. PUTNAM, Eds., Art, Music and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens. The Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, New York: Harvey Miller Pub., 2013, viii + 351 pp., incl. Audio CD, 35 col. ills., 203 b/w ills. HMSBA 3. ISBN 978-1-905375-83-7.

This volume deals with the triumphal entry of the Cardi-nal-Infante Ferdinand, brother of King Philip IV of Spain, into Antwerp in 1635, one of the largest and most spectacular festivals ever mounted in an early modern city. The outdoor festivities in honor of the city’s new governor included a citywide procession, performances, fireworks, music, and political speeches. Along the processional route appeared nine richly ornamented stages and arches designed by Peter




G. Angeli BUFALINI ed., Suggestioni in metallo. L’arte della medaglia tra Ottocento e modernità, Catalogo mostra, Roma-Complesso del Vittoriano, 20.12.2013-19.1.2014, Bollettino di Numismatica 60, Roma, 2013.

Il tema conduttore della mostra, il metallo nella sua ver-satilità e capacità di fissare in forme definite suggestioni, umori, ricordi del passato e preziosi desideri del presente, ha come protagonista la medaglia d’arte italiana: attraverso l’esposizione di una nutri-ta selezione di medaglie, storiche e contempo-ranee, provenienti dalle collezioni delle Istituzioni promotrici dell’iniziativa, è possibile apprezzare le evoluzioni stilistiche di una forma d’arte a volte penal-izzata dalle ridotte dimen-sioni, spesso stereotipata come prodotto di maniera e convenzionale, e invece straordinaria espressione artistica di ambienti, cos-tumi, epoche, versatile espressione della nostra identità culturale. Le sug-gestioni provocate dalle multiformi forge dei metalli e dai messaggi da esse trasmessi si dipanano nel percorso es-positivo, articolato in quattro sezioni:- Storia d’Italia in medaglia tra ‘800 e ‘900. Ricca selezione di medaglie tratte dalle collezioni storiche del Medagliere del Museo Nazionale Romano e del Museo del Risorgimento di Roma.- Romagnoli e l’arte della medaglia nel’900. Selezione di opere dalle raccolte storiche del Museo della Zecca e della Scuola dell’Arte della Medaglia dell’IPZS.- La medaglia contemporanea. Opere realizzate dagli allievi della Scuola dell’Arte della Medaglia presso la Zecca di Sta-to e dagli artisti medaglisti soci dell’AIAM, con esemplari ap-partenenti alla raccolta storica dell’Associazione.- Il Gioiello contemporaneo. Gioielli d’arte realizzati dai gioiellieri aderenti alla Confederazione Nazionale Artigiana-to e dagli artisti dell’Associazione del Gioiello Contempo-raneo. Un ricco apparato di materiali di corredo - quadri, stampe, sculture, cimeli etc. - appartenenti al Museo Cen-trale del Risorgimento, arricchisce il percorso con l’intento di far rivivere l’ambiente culturale e artistico nel quale gli og-getti esposti sono nati. Completa l’esposizione un omaggio a Peter Higgs, premio Nobel per la fisica 2013, mediante l’audace tentativo del maestro Michele Cossyro di fissare nel metallo il cd. Bosone di Higgs.

de incertidumbre Antonio Quereda ocultó su riqueza y luego no pudo recuperarla.Tras el estudio histórico y numismático el libro describe el catálogo de las 501 monedas y las fotografías de todas ellas.

Medals

Philip ATTWOOD, Hard at work. The diary of Leonard Wyon 1853-1867, London: British Numismatic Society, 2014. ISBN 978 1 907427 32 9.

The diary that he kept from 1853 to 1867 throws light on many of Wyon’s most important works: official commissions,

including the famous ‘bun’ penny of Queen Victoria, coins destined for India, Australia and Canada, campaign medals awarded for service in the various mid nineteenth-century military and naval actions in which Britain was engaged, and the prize medal for the 1862 International Exhibition. Other medals were commissioned by the Queen herself, as well as by a broad range of learned societies, academic institutions, commercial concerns and private individuals. In this way Wyon came into direct personal contact with such notable

figures of his time as Prince Albert and Henry Cole, the architect Joseph Paxton and the painter Daniel Maclise.Wyon’s diary also chronicles the more personal aspects of his daily life and domestic arrangements, revealing the ways in which he and his extensive family occupied their leisure hours and documenting such activities as his visits to exhibitions and his opinions on the works of art he saw, his shopping excursions in London, his holidays in Britain and abroad, and – most importantly in Wyon’s view – the religious services he attended and the philanthropic ventures that, as an Evangelical Christian, he saw it as his duty to support.

Bruno CALLEGHER, Elisabetta GASTALDI, Valeria VET-TORATO, eds. Luciano Mercante scultore e medaglista. La donazione della famiglia ai civici musei di Padova. EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2013, 171 p., ill. ISBN 9788883035203.

After a first revival of the medallist Luciano Mercante (1902-1982) on the occasion of the exhibition “Novecento in Medaglia” (“20th Century in Medals”) (Padova 2005), the Civic Museums of that city now propose an anthology of the sculp-

tor-medallist’s work, which this volume accompanies. The monograph constitutes a critical and philological point of reference, illustrating Mer-cante’s entire artistic career. It emerges, that after a first period during which he tried his hand at portrait sculpture according to the typical forms of the 1930s-40s, he then opted for artistic medals and plaques. The iconographical

subjects were original and the purpose of his works was in-novative, created only in a few cases as commissions, more often as an expression of choice and personal thoughts.

Arnaldo Pomodoro. Lo scavo archaeologico, Comune di Roma, 1978, oro.

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Evangéline Markou a reçu le prix Allier de Hauteroche

22 mars 2013Evangéline Markou a reçu le prix Allier de Hauteroche de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres pour son ouvrage intitulé : L’or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et histoire à l’époque classique, Athènes, 2011 (ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 64).

Après ses études d’archéologie à l’Université Aristote de Thessalonique, Evangéline Markou a réalisé un DEA et une thèse de doctorat sur l’histoire et la numismatique des royaumes de Chypre à l’Université Paris IV-Sorbonne. Elle a travaillé au Département des Monnaies et Médai-lles du Musée Fitzwilliam à Cambridge (2004-2005) et au Musée Numismatique d’Athènes (2005-2007), où elle a été chargée de la construction et l’entretien de bases des données numismatiques et elle a enseigné des cours de numismatique et d’histoire à l’Univer-sité de Chypre (2008-2009) et à l’Open University of Cyprus (2008-2012). Nommée en 2009 chercheuse à la Fondation Nationale Hellénique de la Re-cherche Scientifique, Institut des Recherch-es Historiques, Dépar-tement de l’Antiquité Grecque et Romaine (KERA), elle est depuis 2014 la coordinatrice scientifique du pro-jet de recherche “The Silver Coinage of the Kings of Cyprus: Nu-mismatics and Histo-ry in the Archaic and Classical Periods (6th to 4th cen-turies BC)” (acronyme SilCoinCy)”, projet historique et archéologique destiné à établir une base de données des monnayages en argent émis par les rois de Chypre pen-dant les époques archaïque et classique et diffuser les résultats à partir d’un site web.

Le livre d’E. Markou, L’or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et histoire à l’époque classique, Athènes, 2011 (ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 64), établit le catalogue complet des émissions en or des rois de Chypre de la fin du Ve siècle jusqu’à l’anéantissement des royaumes et de la royauté locale par Ptolémée Ier à la fin du IVe siècle. Le corpus, constitué d’une étude par coins, est accompagné d’études sur la métrologie, la composition métallique et l’iconographie qui ont pour but de répondre aux questions liées à l’attribution et à la datation des émissions en or, à la provenance de l’or et au rapport des émissions monétaires avec l’histoire politique de l’île. Le témoignage des sources littéraires, épigraphiques et archéologiques, associé à celui des monnaies, permet une analyse de la politique monétaire des rois chypriotes qui enrichit notre connaissance de l’histoire de Chypre de l’époque classique jusqu’à l’aube de l’époque hellénistique.

Personalia

British Art Medal Society honours Andrew BurnettA medal produced for BAMS commemorates the invaluable contribution made by Dr Andrew Burnett to the British Museum as Keeper of Coins and Medals (1992-2002) and Deputy Director (2002-2013). Andrew began his career at the Museum in 1974 and over the years has gained an international reputation for his work on Roman coins and his many numismatic publications. He was formerly President of the International Numismatic Commission (1997-2003) and of the Roman Society (2008-2012), and is now President of the Royal Numismatic Society. He was appointed a CBE by the Queen in the New Year’s Honours of 2012 and an Honorary Professor of University College London in 2013.

The medal, cast in bronze and measuring 84mm. in diameter, is by young British artist Abigail Burt. Its reverse depicts the British Museum’s Enlightenment Gallery, in acknowledgment of Andrew’s leading role in its creation. An ancient coin hoard spills from a shelf to form a tree of knowledge, in which appear three coins with a special meaning for Andrew: two early Roman Republican coins and a Roman provincial coin representative of his current major research project. A column and pediment allude to the British Museum and the classical tradition, whilst the Latin edge inscription is an adaptation by Andrew of a line from Virgil: not ‘happy is he who has come to know the rural gods’ but ‘happy is he who has come to know Roman coins’.

To order a medal, please visit the website.

El Dr. Alberto Estrada-Rius obtiene el premio Pròsper de Bofarull de Historia medieval 2013La tesis doctoral La casa de la moneda de Barcelona. Les seques reials i els col·legis d’obrers i de moneders a la Corona d’Aragó, defendida en la Universidad de Barcelona a finales de 2012 por el Dr. Alberto Estrada-Rius, conservador del Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya del Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, ha obtenido el premio Pròsper de Bofarull de Historia medieval 2013, concedido por el Institut d’Estudis Catalans, así como la XVIII Beca Notari Raimon Noguera de investigación 2014 en Historia medieval, otorgada por la Fundación Raimon Noguera del Colegio de Notarios de Cataluña para su publicación.

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Ronachai Krisadaolarn & Vasilijs Mihailovs: IAPN book prize for their work on Siamese Coins Since 1982 the IAPN (International Association of Professional Numismatists) has awared an annul book prize award to honor numismatic authors for what the organization considers “the best numismatic publication of the year”. This year, the IAPN held the ceremony on January 19th, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. The IAPN honoured Ronachai Krisadaolarn and Vasilijs Mihailovs for their ground breaking work on Thailand Siamese Coins from Funan to the Fifth Reign. Their book has already become the standard reference in the field of Thai coinage.

The book is not only exceptionally well done, but also fills an important gap in this field. The last major reference on the subject was written some 80 years ago by Reginald Le May, The Coinage of Siam, Siam Society, 1932.

This new publication takes Thai coinage to another level of scholary research. Krisadaolarn and Mihailovs’ work began with lectures given by Ronachai Krisadaolarn at

the National Museum of Thailand in Bangkok in the 1980s and 1990s. With over 2000 illustrations in the text and another 1000 on an attached CD, this is the first ever book in English about Thai coins and the several types of money used by the various ethnic populations in this area. It covers the period from the earliest types of money, both monetiform and in other forms such as shells and various types of ingots used in what

is now Thailand. It also includes the introduction of the baht currency system, a system based on divisions of eight (the octuple system), both in the form of pot duang

Vasilijs Mihailovs (left); IAPN member and Thai coinage expert Jan Olav Aamlid (center); Ronachai Krisadaolarn (right) at the

award ceremony in Bangkok. Mihailovs and Krisadaolarn are displaying their IAPN Book Prize Medals

and flat coins, and the beginnings of the present day decimal coinage. It describes the development of Thai money as a continuous economic-historical development with excerpts from a variety of sources, including the Sukhothai inscriptions, the royal chronicles of Ayutthaya, the records of individual Dutch, French and Portuguese travelers and unpublished documents from the Royal Archives. A unique feature of this publication and the enclosed DVD are high resolution photographs of over 1,000 specimens of the coins and other forms of money including photographs from the National Museum and leading private collections that have circulated in Siam and its tributary states up to the Fifth Reign. This work includes an extensive study of the metallic composition of most specimens conducted either by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) tests and/or Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) tests to determine the exact chemical composition of the coins. The book also discusses the diagnostic features of genuine coins along with those of known counterfeits and how to detect them. The acknowledgements cite many major collections, museums and institutions that mmade their collections available: the Bank of Thailand Museum, the National Museum of Thailand and the Royal Thai Mint Museum to name just a few.

For more information regarding the IAPN please visit its website.

Obituaries

Jean-Paul Divo (1937-2014)Né à Luxembourg-ville, Jean-Paul s’était passionné dès son enfance pour les monnaies. Quittant le Luxembourg et des amis fidèles – Roman Probst et Raymond Weiller – il s’installe à Londres de 1958 à 1962 et travaille chez Sea-by. Il rejoindra ensuite la banque Leu et, en 1977, fonde successivement deux maisons de vente, en partenariat, Spink-Taisei, puis Hess-Divo, qu’il abandonne fin 2001 pour prendre sa retraite. Il quitte alors également la présidence de l’Association Internationale des Numis-mates Professionnels, à la tête de laquelle il avait été élu en 1997, après en avoir été le secrétaire et l’éditeur de son Bulletin durant près de 20 ans.

Parallèlement à ses activi-tés professionnelles, il me-nait de front une activité de chercheur, publiant sans relâche, monographies et articles, dont il serait trop long de donner la liste, depuis Die Taler der Schweiz en 1966 jusqu’à une Numismatique de Thann qu’il n’a mal-heureusement pas vu paraître.

Après 2001, vivant entre Pozzo (Tessin) et Paris, marié en secondes noces avec Françoise Page, qui partageait sa passion, Jean-Paul a eu plus de temps pour travailler au Cabinet des médailles, dont il a publié le Catalogue

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Georges Le Rider (27/1/1928 - 3/7/2014)

The numismatic community and the International Nu-mismatic Council mourn the pass-ing of the great scholar Georges Le Rider in Givors (Rhône) on July 3rd. He was one of the most outstanding scholars of ancient Greek numismatics of our time, Pre- sident of the INC (1973-1979) and Honorary Member since 1986. He was also the kindest and most generous of colleagues. An obituary will be published in Compte Rendu 61 (2014).

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi (President of the INC)

des monnaies suisses (RSN 2007). Son livre sur les Médailles de Louis XV, écrit en collaboration avec son épouse, donne également une large part aux collections du Cabinet. Nous avions plaisir à nous retrouver au Grand Colbert, mais je voudrais évoquer le déjeuner chez Clémentine qu’il avait organisé en mon honneur pour ma retraite en novembre 2013. Il était déjà affaibli, mais ce témoignage d’estime et d’amitié qu’il avait souhaité m’offrir est le dernier souvenir que je garde de lui, celui d’un homme passionné, curieux de tout, aimable, dont le sourire et l’érudition nous manquent.

Michel Amandry

Michel Prieur (1955-2014)La disparition prématurée de Michel Prieur laisse un grand vide dans le paysage numismatique français et international. Président de la société cgb.fr, dont l’activité débordante ne lui valait pas que des amitiés, il était féru de tout, mais je ne voudrais évoquer ici que sa passion pour les tétradrachmes syro-phéniciens. C’est comme cela que nous nous sommes connus et nous avons en 1987 co-signé un article ‘Nouvel apport à l’étude des tétradrachmes sévériens de Laodicée’ paru dans la RBN.

La possibilité de travailler sur la collection du Cabinet des médailles, que je lui avais fait connaître, a mené à son ouvrage de référence, A type corpus of the Syro-Phoenician tetradrachms and their fractions from 57 BC to AD 253 (CNG, Lancaster et Londres, 2000). La base de données impressionnante qu’il nourrissait constamment était à la disposition des chercheurs et j’ai une dette immense envers lui, car, sans cet outil, je n’aurais pas pu réaliser d’étude de coins des tétradrachmes de Trajan et d’Hadrien frappés en Cilicie et à Antioche pour le Roman Provincial Coinage III (à paraître, 2015). Michel pestait volontiers contre la lenteur des scientifiques à publier leur matériel et son grand regret est de n’avoir jamais pu avoir accès au trésor de Mampsis, découvert en 1966, fort de 10321 pièces, dont 8275 tétradrachmes, pour la plupart sévériens. Mais force est de constater qu’il avait raison, car près de 50 ans après, cette publication n’a toujours pas vu le jour !

La mise en ligne par cgb.fr de cette base sera un bel hommage à sa mémoire.

Michel Amandry


The INC Annual Travel Grant 2015-2016

Following article 1 of the constitution, «to facilitate cooperation among individuals and institutions in the field of numismatics and related disciplines», the INC offers for 2015/2016 a travelling scholarship of € 3.000 and a grant-in-aid of € 1.000.Applicants must be less than 35 years old on December 31st 2014, and be engaged on or intending to undertake an important numismatic research project. The recipients will be able to visit foreign coin cabinets or other centers of numismatic research, to study material and to develop contacts with other scholars.Applications in Spanish, English, French, German or Italian should be sent to the Secretary of the INC, Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien, postmarked by March 1st, 2015, and include:1) a curriculum vitae, with a list of publications, a detailed plan of research with travel itinerary2) a reference from a numismatic specialist who is or will be supervising the work3) a recommendation from a member of the INC (an honorary member or the responsible official of a member institution, but not a member of the INC Committee).The Committee of the INC will award the scholarship and the grant-in-aid at its meeting in 2015 after examining the applications in consultation with specialists from the INC or others if necessary.

En vertu de l’article 1 des statuts, « pour faciliter la coopération entre individus et institutions dans le domaine de la numismatique », le CIN accorde pour l’année 2015/2016 une bourse d’un montant de 3 000 € et une aide à la recherche plus réduite de 1 000 €. Les candidats doivent avoir moins de 35 ans au 31.12.2014 et avoir en cours ou en projet une recherche numisma-tique importante. La bourse permettra de travailler dans des cabinets ou d’autres centres de recherche étrangers, d’y étudier le matériel et de nouer des contacts avec d’autres spécialistes.Les candidatures doivent être adressées au Secrétaire de l’INC, Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistoris-ches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien avant le 1er mars 2015 (date de la poste) avec:1) curriculum vitae, titres et travaux, programme précis du voyage et plan de travail ;2) attestation d’un spécialiste acceptant de superviser le travail ; 3) recommandation d’un membre du CIN (un membre honoraire ou le responsable d’une institution-membre, à l’exclusion des membres du Bureau du CIN).Le Bureau du CIN attribuera la bourse et la subvention lors de sa réunion de 2015 après examen des dossiers par des experts, de préférence membres du CIN.Les dossiers et attestations peuvent être rédigés dans l’une des cinq langues suivantes : allemand, anglais, es-pagnol, français, italien.

Gemäss Art. 1 ihrer Constitution «to facilitate cooperation among individuals and institutions in the field of numismatics and related disciplines» vergibt der Internationale Numismatische Rat für das Jahr 2015/2016 ein Reisestipendium in Höhe von 3‘000 € und eine kleinere Subvention von 1‘000 €.Bewerben können sich junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler bis zu 35 Jahren (Stichtag 31.12.2014), die eine grösseres numismatisches Forschungsprojekt in Arbeit haben oder planen. Das Stipendium soll dazu die-nen, Münzkabinette und andere numismatische Forschungstätten in anderen Ländern zu besuchen, das Material zu studieren und Kontakte mit anderen Wissenschaftlern zu knüpfen.Bewerbungen in deutscher, englischer, französischer, italienischer oder spanischer Sprache sind zu richten an den Sekretär des INR, Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien. Beizufügen sind:1) ein Lebenslauf mit Nachweis des Studiums, ein Schriftenverzeichnis, einen Arbeitsplan sowie die geplante Reiseroute, 2) das Gutachten eines in der Numismatik erfahrenen Wissenschaftlers, der die Arbeit betreut hat oder betreuen wird, und 3) die Empfehlung eines Mitgliedes des INR (eines Ehrenmitgliedes oder eines/r Verantwortlichen eines Münzka-binettes oder Institutes, der/die kein Mitglied des Büros des INR ist).Termin für die Bewerbung ist der 1. März 2015 (Datum des Poststempels). Die Entscheidung über die eingegan-genen Bewerbungen trifft das Büro des INR nach der Beurteilung durch Sachverständige aus dem Kreis der Mit-glieder des INR, in Ausnahmefällen auch durch andere Experten, an der Jahressitzung 2015.

La bourse annuelle du CIN 2015-2016

Das Reisestipendium des INR 2015-2016


Visto l’articolo 1 dello Statuto, “agevolando la cooperazione tra individui e istituzioni nel campo della numisma-tica e delle scienze affini.” l’ INC offre per il 2015/2016 una borsa per viaggi di studio di 3000 € e un contributo di 1000 €.I candidati non dovranno aver superato i 35 anni di età alla data del 31.12.2014 e dovranno essere già coinvolti o avere intenzione di intraprendere un importante progetto di ricerca numismatica. I vincitori potranno visitare gabinetti numis-matici stranieri o altri centri di ricerca numismatica, studiare materiali e stringere contatti con altri specialisti.Le domande di partecipazione - redatte in spagnolo, inglese, francese, tedesco o italiano - dovranno essere invia-te alla Segreteria dell’INC, Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien, entro e non oltre il 1 marzo 2015 (farà fede il timbro postale) e comprendere:1) Curriculum Vitae, con un elenco delle pubblicazioni, i dettagli del progetto di ricerca e l’itinerario di viaggio; 2)una referenza da parte di uno specialista in numismatica che sia già o che sarà il supervisore del lavoro; 3)una lettera di raccomandazione di un membro dell’ INC (un membro onorario o il responsabile ufficiale di un’ Isti-tuzione affiliata, a esclusione dei membri del Consiglio dell’INC)Il Consiglio dell’INC assegnerà la borsa di studio e il contributo nel corso della sua riunione del 2015, dopo aver esaminato le domande di partecipazione avvalendosi anche della consultazione - se necessario - di specialisti dell’INC o di altre istituzioni.

Borsa di studio annuale INC 2015-2016

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EditorsSylviane Estiot, HISOMA (Histoire et sources des mondes antiques) UMR 5189-CNRS, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon (France) Pere Pau Ripollès, Departament de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, Universitat de València, València (Spain) for the Interna-tional Numismatic Council INC / Conseil International de Numismatique CIN.

Según el art. 1 de los estatutos, “para facilitar la cooperación entre individuos e instituciones en el campo de la Numismática y disciplinas afines” el CIN ofrece para 2015/2016 una bolsa de 3000 € y una ayuda de 1000 €.Los solicitantes deben ser menores de 35 años en 31 de diciembre de 2014 y tener en curso o en expectativa un proyecto importante de investigación numismática. Los receptores podrán visitar gabinetes numismáticos extran-jeros u otros centros de investigación, para estudiar materiales y establecer contactos con otros investigadores. Las solicitudes, en español, inglés, francés e italiano, deben enviarse al Secretario del CIN, Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien, antes del 1 de marzo de 2015 (fecha de co-rreo), con: 1) Curriculum vitae, con la lista de publicaciones y un detallado plan de investigación con el itinerario de viaje; 2) una referencia de un especialista numismático que sea o será el supervisor del trabajo; 3) una reco-mendación de un miembro del CIN (un miembro honorario o un responsable oficial de una institución miembro, pero que no forme parte del Comité del CIN).El Comité del CIN concederá la beca y la ayuda en su reunión de 2015, después de haber examinado las solici-tudes consultando a expertos del CIN y de otras instituciones si fuera necesario.

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