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International Numismatic
International Numismatic Council (INC)
Conseil International de Numismatique (CIN)
Contents
The President’s Note
Le mot du Président
Reports from institutions
Announcements
Colloquia and Meetings
Exhibitions
Websites
New books
Personalia
Obituaries
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I n t e r n a t i o n a l N u m i s m a t i c e - N e w s l e t t e r ( I N e N ) - N o 11 - O c t o b e r 2 0 1 1
Electronic Newsletter of the INC/CIN - ISSN 1662-120
The President’s Note / Le mot du Président
Dear INC members and friends
We announced in the last
INeN in February that
our new green means of
communication with you
will now be a biannual
electronic Newsletter, the
INeN, to be issued in the
fall at the beginning at
the academic year, and
in early spring after the
beginning of the calendar year. The Compte
Rendu, our substantial
annual report continues
D r . C armen A rnold -B iucchi
to be published in hard
copy at the time of the INC Committee’s annual meeting.
I hope you browse our website : for updated information
on our activities and electronic versions of interesting features from past Comptes Rendus such as Laws and Prac
tices Regarding Coin Finds, Famous Numismatists, Great
Collectors and History of Collections. You will find it much
improved thanks to our webmaster Bernward Ziegaus.
Do send him any pertinent news.
The Proceedings of the XIVth
International Numismatic Con
gress Glasgow 2009, edited by Nicholas Holmes are
going to press. They are being
published through Spink of
London and will be available from them in October.
Congratulations to the Glasgow
team! Behind the scenes, the
INC Committee has been hard at
work planning one of our major
tasks: the Survey of Numismatic
Research, as well as preparing
for the 2015 Congress in Mes
sina/Taormina www.xvcin.unime.it. T he INC B oard
(from l .
Thanks to Vice-President Benedikt Zäch, the Committee
held its annual meeting in Winterthur, CH, in conjunction
with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the illustrious Münzkabinett, whose founding curator was Friedrich
Imhoof-Blumer. We were the guests of the Cabinet and of
the Mayor and City of Winterthur and it is my pleasure to
express my profound gratitude. You will read the details below in this issue.
The next annual meeting will take place in Warsaw on May
10 – 11, 2012, at the kind invitation of Prof. Aleksander
Bursche and the Institute of Archaeology of the University
of Warsaw. These generous sponsorships are crucial for the
INC: they allow us to save our funds and invest them in
scholarships. Benedikt Zäch and I will give a lecture on that
occasion. This will be the third time that the INC Committee
meets in Poland (previously in 1972 and 1994)
I have to close on the sad news that our colleague Mark
Blackburn died peacefully at his home on 1 September
2011 after a long and courageous fight with cancer. He was
Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals since 1991
at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a Fellow of
Gonville and Caius College since 1994, University of Cambridge. A memorial service is envisaged for a later date.
Please remember that the INeN
is your newsletter so send information to our enthusiastic editors Sylviane Estiot and
Benedikt Zäch.
visiting the numismatic collections
to r .,
in V illa B ühler , W interthur
D. Bateson, M. Caccamo Caltabiano,
C. Arnold-Biucchi, P. P. Ripolles)
Chers membres et amis du CIN,
La dernière INeN de février
vous annonçait qu’à l’avenir
notre moyen de communication avec vous sera une Newsletter écologique et verte deux
fois par an : en automne au début de l’année académique (octobre-novembre) et au début
de l’année civile (janvier-février).
International Numismatic e-Newsletter — No 11 — October 2011 - p.1
Le Compte Rendu qui est notre rapport annuel substantiel
continuera de paraître avant la réunion du Bureau au printemps. J’espère que vous visitez notre site amplifié et rendu
plus élégant par notre webmaster Bernward Ziegaus. Vous y
trouverez en plus des nouvelles d’actualité, les archives électroniques des articles des Comptes Rendus sur les Lois, Les
Grands Numismates, Les Collectionneurs Célèbres et les His
toires des Collections Numismatiques. Ne manquez pas de
nous envoyer vos nouvelles.
Les Actes du XIVe Congrès International de Numismatique,
Glasgow 2009, édités par Nicholas Holmes sont prêts à aller
sous presse. Ils seront distribués par Spink de Londres en
octobre. Bravo à l’équipe de Glasgow !
Derrière les coulisses, le Bureau travaille infatigablement à la préparation du prochain Survey of Numismatic
Research et à celle du Congrès 2015 à Messine/Taormine h t t p : //xvcin.unime.it , nos deux tâches primordiales. Grâce
à notre Vice-Président Benedikt Zäch, la réunion du Bureau
cette année a eu lieu à Winterthur en Suisse, à l’occasion
du 150e anniversaire du célèbre cabinet numismatique de
Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer. Nous avons été les hôtes de la Ville
et du Cabinet, et je tiens à exprimer toute notre reconnaissance pour le chaleureux accueil du Maire et de nos collègues
au Münzkabinett. Vous pourrez en lire le détail ci-dessous.
L’année prochaine le Bureau se réunira à Varsovie le 10 et
11 mai 2012 sur invitation de l’Institut d’Archéologie de l’Université de Varsovie et du Pr. Aleksander Bursche. Ce sera la
troisième fois, après 1972 et 1994, que la Pologne offrira son
hospitalité au CIN et nous lui en sommes profondément reconnaissants. Cela nous permet de réserver nos fonds pour
les bourses aux jeunes chercheurs. Benedikt Zäch et moi
donnerons une conférence à cette occasion.
J’ai le triste devoir de vous faire part du décès de notre collègue Mark Blackburn le 1er septembre dernier après un long
et courageux combat contre le cancer. Il s’est éteint paisiblement entouré de sa famille. Il était Keeper of the Department
of Coins and Medals du Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, depuis 1991, et Fellow of Gonville and Caius College de l’Université de Cambridge depuis 1994.
L’International Numismatic e-Newsletter est vôtre : merci
d’envoyer toute information à nos éditeurs diligents, Sylviane
Estiot et Benedikt Zäch.
Reports from Institutions
Milan, Italy - Università degli Studi, 29 March 2011 :
Meeting of the Editors of the Survey of Numismatic Research
2008 – 2013
The purpose of the Survey is to provide a critical (but not
polemical) commentary on recent work. It is a selection of
the most important works that brought new material or new
ideas and methods to the field in the past six years (and those
are not necessarily the longest: two pages on a new coin can
change a chronology). It is not intended to be exhaustive nor
a list of publications that nowadays can easily be found elsewhere As well as covering the principal works, it will also
indicate the general directions of thought and changes during the period under review. The Survey has a much wider
audience than the world of numismatic scholarship: it must
therefore be accessible, interesting and useful also to historians, archaeologists and collectors.
As President I believe that the publication of the Survey is
arguably, with the organization of the International Congress
every six years, the most important and useful task that the
INC performs for the scholarly and numismatic community at
large. Even in this electronic age, it can be a daunting enterprise, one which requires an enormous amount of work and
organization. So as reported in CR 57, we started soon after
Glasgow. The General Editors are, ex officio the President
and the Officer in charge of the Congress: so Maria Caccamo Caltabiano and myself. The INC Committee selected
the section editors or subeditors for the different branches of
numismatics. The next Survey will consist of six sections and
the subeditors are:
Antiquity (including Celtic coinages):
- M a r g u e r i t e S p o e r r i , Greek
- R o g e r B l a n d , Roman
- B e r n w a rd Z i e g a u s , Celtic
Medieval and Western and coinages:
- L u c i a Tr a v a i n i - Hubert Emmerig
Islamic, Asian and African coinages:
- Stefan Heidemann
- François Thierry
Oceania and the New World (pre and postcolonial):
- J u l i o To r re s
- Miguel Ibáñez Artica
Medals:
- Tu u k k a Ta l v i o
General Numismatics:
- D a v i d W i g g - Wo l ff
- Hortensia von Roten
Their task will be to select the individual contributors to their
section, to communicate the guidelines and instructions, to
enforce adherence to format and deadlines, and to edit the
final manuscripts. Following a tradition that Vice President
Benedikt Zäch introduced in the previous Bureau, we organized a meeting in Milan in March for all the editors, subeditors, and former editors Donal Bateson and Sally-Anne Coupar who prepared the Glasgow volume for the printer. We
were the hosts of the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
of the Università degli Studi of Milan and of the Società Numismatica Italiana. We are extremely grateful to Professors
Adriano Savio and Lucia Travaini and to Dr. Ermanno Winsemann Falghera for their generosity. It was very useful and
productive for the team to be able to exchange ideas and to
get to know each other in person. It was decided that the
Survey of Numismatic Research 2008 – 2013 to be published
in summer 2015, will still be a one volume hard copy publication. The length and space for every section was established.
The contributions can be submitted in any of the five official
languages of the INC.
In conjunction with the meeting, the INC offered two lectures
to students of the Università degli Studi and members of the
SNI: our Treasurer Tuukka Talvio presented an illustrated talk
on: The finds of Byzantine coins from the Northern lands, and
I spoke on: Alessandro Magno e gli inizi della monetazione
ellenistica. It was a great opportunity to meet with students
and colleagues. Our stay in Milan was crowned by a dinner
at the home of former INC Vice President Ermanno Arslan: a
memorable evening. Now let’s get to work and you will hear
more in the next Compte Rendu and INeN!
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi,
President
Winterthur, Switzerland – INC Committee Annual
Meeting, 31 March-1 April 2011
V illa B ühler , W interthur
The Committee of the International Numismatic Council held
its annual meeting in Winterthur March 31- April 1, 2011.
Thanks to the generous invitation of the Münzkabinett und
Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur with its splendid
showrooms in the Villa Bühler all members of the Board were
guests and very much enjoyed the hospitality of our Vice
President Benedikt Zäch. The Münzkabinett and the city of
Winterthur provided accommodations and offered two receptions to the members: one in the Old City Hall where a
great many of Swiss numismatic colleagues and student collaborators gathered and socialized, and the other in the guild
Zur Geduld. The President of ICOMON and the Schweizer
Numismatische Gesellschaft Hortensia von Roten as well as
the Director of the Inventar der Fundmünzen der Schweiz
Rahel Ackermann joined the reception. Both events were a
most welcome opportunity for discussions and exchange
of ideas. The members also had the possibility to visit the
special exhibition “Gold und Silber – Neues Geld im Spätmittelalter”, which was organized on the occasion of the 150th
anniversary of the Münzkabinett Winterthur.
At the INC Committee Meeting, Secretary Michael Alram
presented the new Compte Rendu 57/2010 with articles
on: “The law and practice regarding coin finds in the United
States”, the famous numismatist Ernest Babelon, the collector Albéric du Chastel and obituaries of Honorary Members
Octavian Iliescu, Pierre Bastien and Attilo Stazio. An article
on the “Münzkabinett des Historischen Museums Bern”
gives an overview on the history and origins and about the
vision of the cabinet for the future.
The INC accepted three applications for membership
(Universita della Calabria; Museo de Prehistòria di València;
Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap voor Munt- en Penningkunde Utrecht).
Early in 2011 some new frames were introduced on the w e b s i t e o f t h e I N C - C I N . The website now contains a link to the
XVth International Numismatic Congress in 2015 in Messina/
Taormina. Maria Caltabiano, who will organize the Congress
presented the newly installed w e b s i t e , which will be upgraded continuously. The Survey on Numismatic Research
2002–2007 (Glasgow 2009) is now available online (cf. infra).
There was also a first brainstorming to simplify and to modify the INC-CIN-logo not just to create something new, but
T he INC C ommittee A nnual meeting in W interthur
M. Caccamo Caltabiano, D. Bateson, S. Estiot, M. Alram,
C. Arnold-Biucchi, B. Zäch, T. Talvio, B. Ziegaus, P. P. Ripolles
from l . to r .,
to better express thre distinctive characteristic of the INC,
which is the only global numismatic organization working on
a platform for the most spoken languages in the world (except Chinese which the Committee is determined to include
in the future).
The INC in accordance with its mission statement is constantly striving to improve and broaden collaboration between numismatists, archeologists and historians. Reports from different colleagues working on numismatic projects have shown,
that there is not only a lack of funds but also a dearth of
young researchers. The INC therefore renews its offer to give
its patronage to international numismatic projects and publications. To receive a patronage, detailed proposals should
be sent to Secretary Michael Alram by the end of February
2012 so that the Committee can review them before its annual spring meeting.
B. Z äch , D irector
of the
M ünzkabinett ,
telling of the story
of the collections in
W interthur
Bernward Ziegaus,
Archäologische Staatssammlung, München
the collection of lead seals, and presented on the use of several complementary technologies, including the database
for Byzantine seals (SIGIDOC). In addition, Joel Kalvesmaki
(Dumbarton Oaks), provided an introduction to Unicode
The editing and proofing of the Proceedings of the Glasgow
fonts, and especially the development Dumbarton Oaks font
Congress are now complete. Nicholas Holmes, a member of
for coin and seal inscriptions, Athena-Ruby. Meanwhile, Joe
the Congress Organising Committee and Honorary Research
Mills, also of Dumbarton Oaks, demonstrated the methods
Associate at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, of high-quality digital photography and image manipulation.
is the Editor. The Proceedings will be a substantial two vo- In the unfortunate absence, for medical reasons, of Sebaslume hard cover containing over 250 papers resulting from tian Heath, who had agreed to conduct sessions on map
the wide range of presentations delivered in Glasgow. This construction, Kuba Kabala introduced the other participants
will go to the printers within the next few weeks. It is being to mapping using Arc-GIs and to the D i g i t a l A t l a s o f t h e
published through Spink of London and will be available from R o m a n a n d M e d i e v a l C i v i l i z a t i o n s (Harvard) and Jonathan
them. The cost will be under £100. As soon as the Procee Shea to the Pleiades gazetteer developed by the I n s t i t u t e f o r
dings are available further general and individual notification S t u d y o f t h e A n c i e n t Wo r l d (New York).
and information will be sent out.
Student presentations, either as a part of broader research inD. Bateson, terests or as a contribution to a specific project, rounded out
Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow the program in the final week. Sencan Altinoluk (Canakkale
University) presented a preliminary catalogue of Byzantine
coins and seals in the collection of the Ödemiş Museum in
Washington D.C., USA - Dumbarton Oaks Fourth Izmir, Turkey. Esra Erdogan (Marmara University), meanwhile,
Summer Program in Byzantine Numismatics and assembled the seals of the doux of Antioch during the XIth
century, providing a prosopography of the institution during
Sigillography (5-29 July 2011)
its first hundred years. Dimitrios Krikelikos (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki) studied the excavation
In July 2011, the summer procoin finds from the Late Roman site of
gram in Byzantine numismatics
the St. Hilarion sanctuary in Gaza. Kuba
and sigillography met once again
Kabala (Harvard University) presented a
at the Dumbarton Oaks Center
preliminary survey of numismatic data
for Byzantine, Pre-Columbian,
from Balkan excavations and hoards
and Garden and Landscape
to assess economic, political, and straStudies in Washington, D.C. The
tegic boundaries on the Bulgarian-Byprogram brought together stuzantine frontier of the IX-Xth centuries.
dents from the United States,
Lain Wilson (Princeton University) proEurope, and Turkey for daily sevided a technical and stylistic study of
minars in analytical methods and
the XIIIth-century gold hyperpyra of John
application of material evidence
III Vatatzes in the Dumbarton Oaks and
to archaeological and historical
Princeton collections. Naomi Pitamdisciplines. In addition to these
ber (UCLA) discussed the emergence
classes, the final week compriof the Christ Chalkites imagery on the
sed a series of student presentacoins and seals of the Nicaean Empire.
tions on research topics chosen
Margherita Pomero (University of Boat the outset of the program.
logna) analyzed the emergence of idioThe daily seminars were directed
syncratic iconographies during the
by Cécile Morrisson for coins
XIIIth and XIVth centuries, including the
and Eric McGeer and Vivien
“winged emperor type” and their role in
Prigent (CNRS, Paris) for seals.
imperial propaganda. Finally, Federico
Students were able to take adMontinaro (École pratique des hautes
vantage of the thousands of
études, Paris) studied the seals of kom
objects in the Dumbarton Oaks
merkiarioi of the VIIth and VIIIth centuries,
Collection to learn methods of
arguing for a reinterpretation of their
identification, reading, and dafunction and presenting the patterns of
ting, as well as for discussions
numerical and geographical proliferation
about the evolution of iconodown to 730 CE.
graphy and the mechanics and
The DO 4 Summer Program in Numismatics
The participants of the program would
techniques of production. Comand S igillography
plementing this collection, an
( from l . to r .) , front row : M. Mullett, C. Morrisson, like to express their thanks to Cécile
assembly of staff and fellows
V. Prigent; second row : S. Altinoluk, M. Pomero, Morrisson, Vivien Prigent, and Eric
provided presentations of their S. Italiano (Byzantine Assistant); third row : E. Erdogan, McGeer for a wonderful course, as well
N. Pitamber; fourth row : D. Krikelikos, F. Montinaro; as to Margaret Mullett, Director of Byown research as well as general
fifth row : K. K abala , L. W ilson ; last row : J. S hea
zantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, for
expertise both in and out of the
(P hoto : J oe M ills ) her numerous and valuable contribuseminar. Luca Zavagno (Eastern
tions, intellectual and logistical, and to
Mediterranean University) presented a reassessment of the traditional periodization on the all the staff and fellows who took time from their own work to
island of Cyprus based upon coin finds. Dr. Eurydice Geor- aid us in ours.
ganteli (Birmingham University/Barber Institute) provided vaLain Wilson,
luable and appreciated insights in the discussions, especially
Princeton University
regarding the relationship of coins to archaeology. Jonathan
Shea (Dumbarton Oaks) assisted with seminars, managed
Proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic
Congress Glasgow 2009
th
Wien, Österreich - 4. Numismatisches Sommerseminar 2011 am Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien (25. Juli-5. August 2011)
Das Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte veranstaltete in der Zeit vom 25. Juli bis 5. August 2011 das vierte
internationale numismatische Sommerseminar unter dem
Titel “Ein Numismatischer Sommer in Wien”. Zielpublikum
waren Studierende aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, die
ihre Kenntnisse in der Numismatik ausbauen wollen. Nur
das Wiener Institut, das einzige Universitätsinstitut unseres
Fachs im deutschsprachigen Gebiet, verfügt über entsprechend breite Ausbildungs- und Studienmöglichkeiten. Um
diese Chance mehr Studierenden zugänglich zu machen,
veranstaltet das Institut jährlich numismatische Sommerseminare; dabei wechseln sich Anfängerseminare mit solchen
für Fortgeschrittene ab.
Ziel des Seminars war es, Grundkenntnisse in der Numismatik aller Epochen zu vermitteln; der epochenübergreifende
Charakter ist uns dabei besonders wichtig. Die erste Woche
bestand deshalb aus einführenden Vorlesungen zu den einzelnen Perioden und Epochen der Numismatik, gemischt
mit zahlreichen Lehrausgängen; so wurden die Münze Österreich, das Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums,
die Sammlung (und das Museum) des Schottenstifts und (in
der zweiten Woche) das Geldmuseum der Oesterreichischen
Nationalbank besucht.
Dank der Mithilfe von Studierenden und Absolventen des
Instituts stand auch ein Übungsblock auf dem Programm,
in dem – unter persönlicher Betreuung – der praktische
Umgang mit Objekten verschiedener Zeitstellung geübt werden konnte.
Die zweite Woche stand dann im Zeichen einer Vertiefung
speziellerer numismatischer Fragestellungen. Das Spektrum
reichte von Systemrekonstruktion
und Fundauswertung in der antiken
Numismatik und Schriftgut aus der
Münzverwaltung des Spätmittel
alters bis zur deutschen Medaille des
16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. In diesen
intensiveren Arbeitsblöcken hatten
auch die Teilnehmer selbst kleinere
wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen
zu übernehmen.
Die Exkursion nach Graz in das
Münzkabinett am Universalmuseum
Joanneum war dann ein logischer
Abschluss der beiden Wochen:
dort konnte Mag. Karl Peitler vorführen, mit welchen Aufgaben und
Problemen eine kleinere regionale
Einrichtung, das Münzkabinett für
das Bundesland Steiermark, bei
der Sammlung, Bewahrung, Auf
arbeitung und Ausstellung numismatischen Materials konfrontiert ist.
N umismatisches S ommerseminar W ien
J. Bastians, A. Kuhle, F. Riedel, M. Imbach, M. Latos,
M. Ohlig, C. Klein, H. Maué, H. Emmerig, B. Awianowicz ;
M ittlere R eihe : C. Willkommen, R. Wolters, S. Pfützenreuter, K. Futh,
S. Kraus, F. Weise, C. Walther, E. List, W. Szaivert, M. Peter;
V orne sitzend : A. van Ross, F. Schulte, Y. Wagner, E. Astakhova;
A uf dem F oto fehlen : J. Freche und J. Meinhold
(F oto : M. H ollunder )
H intere R eihe v . l .
n . r .:
Die Sommerseminare zielen nicht darauf ab, viele Studierende für eine Spezialisierung auf die Numismatik zu gewinnen, sondern sie wollen bei den Nachbarfächern Grundkenntnisse in der Numismatik vermitteln und damit ein
Verständnis für die Fragestellungen und Anliegen der Numismatik wecken und fördern.
Von den insgesamt 44 Bewerbern, die sich auf die Aus
schreibung im Frühjahr 2011 hin gemeldet hatten, konnten
leider nur 20 Studierende aus Deutschland, der Schweiz und
aus Russland einen Platz bekommen. Auswahlkriterien waren dabei einerseits ein Studienfach, das einen entsprechenden Nutzen numismatischer Kenntnisse erwarten ließ, und
andererseits der Studienfortgang. Absolute Studienanfänger
wurden ebenso wie weit fortgeschrittene Studierende auf
künftige Veranstaltungen verwiesen. Auch Studierende aus
Wien wurden nicht berücksichtigt, da ihnen die regulären
Lehrveranstaltungen des Instituts im Laufe des normalen
Studienjahres offen stehen.
Die Hauptakteure der beiden Wochen waren die wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter des Instituts (Prof.
Reinhard Wolters, Prof. Wolfgang
Szaivert, Prof. Hubert Emmerig), zu
denen in der zweiten Woche noch
Dr. Hermann Maué aus Nürnberg
(Medaillenkunde) und Dr. Markus
Peter aus Augst (Interpretation antiker Münzfunde) hinzutraten. Ihnen ist dafür ebenso zu danken wie den vielen Mit
arbeitern der anderen beteiligten Institutionen, die wieder für
unser Sommerseminar offen standen.
Nach den weitgehend positiven Rückmeldungen der Teil
nehmerinnen und Teilnehmer haben die Studierenden viel
profitiert und auch zahlreiche Anregungen für ihre weiteren
Studien bekommen. Da sie an ihrer Heimatuniversität vielfach
als wissenschaftliche Hilfskräfte eingesetzt sind, werden sie
sicher als Multiplikatoren wirken; so ist für die nächste solche
Veranstaltung im Jahr 2012 mit noch größerem Andrang zu
rechnen.
Ohne engagierte Sponsoren wären unsere Sommerseminare
nicht durchzuführen. Ihnen allen danken wir im Namen aller
TeilnehmerInnen sehr herzlich für ihre großzügige Unter
stützung. Für das Jahr 2012 ist das 5. Numismatische Sommerseminar bereits in Planung. Die Veranstaltung wird wieder (wie schon 2010) eine spezielle Ausrichtung
auf fortgeschrittene Studierende haben; sie wendet sich also
an solche Studierende, die bereits an einer Abschlussarbeit
schreiben und zu deren Thema die Numismatik einen Beitrag
leistet. Dabei wird vor allem in interdisziplinärer Weise untersucht werden, welche Rolle numismatische Fragestellungen
in den zur Bearbeitung übernommenen Themen spielen und
wie diese numismatischen Ansätze sinnvoll und fruchtbringend weiterentwickelt werden können. Dabei ist auch an
eine Teilnahme und Mitwirkung von Wiener Studierenden,
insbesondere Doktoranden, gedacht.
ration work going on in the Great Guild Hall, the home of
the Estonian History Museum. In an exhibition of Estonian
coin hoards at the Institute of History of the Tallinn University,
Mauri Kiudsoo showed us a Viking-Age hoard found near
Tallinn in August 2010 (1 329 coins, tpq 1059).
The foreign participants were accommodated in a guest
house of the Brigittine Convent built beside the ruins of the
medieval Church of St. Bridget. Being in Tallinn at the time of
an unusually heavy snowstorm was quite an experience for
many of them.
Universität Wien,
Institut für Numismatik und Geldge s c h i c h t e
Tallinn, Estonia – International numismatic symposium and a new numismatic exhibition
The symposium in Tallinn on 9-10 December 2010 focussed
on the medieval monetary history of the Baltic area. There
had been a similar conference in Copenhagen in 1981,
with participants from England, Germany, Poland, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Estonia. Most of these
countries were represented also this time: Germany (Peter
Ilisch), Poland (Stanisław Suchodolski, Borys Paszkiewicz),
Denmark (Jørgen Steen Jensen, Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson),
Sweden (Kenneth Jonsson, Nanouschka Myrberg, Cecilia
von Heijne), Finland (Tuukka Talvio, Hannu Sarkkinen), Estonia (Mauri Kiudsoo, Gunnar Haljak, Ivar Leimus). There were
now also participants from Latvia (Viktors Dāboliņš) and Lithuania (Dalia Grimalauskaitė, Vytautas Aleksiejūnas, Eduardas Remecas). Thirty years is a long time – only two of those
who were present, Suchodolski and Jensen, had attended
the earlier meeting in Copenhagen.
Seventeen papers were presented during the two days.
Tuukka Talvio, Eduardas Remecas and Kenneth Jonsson
presented the finds of Livonian coins from Finland, Lithuania, and Sweden. Gunnar Haljak, Ivar Leimus and Hannu
Sarkkinen discussed the typology of Livonian coins and the
political and economic changes behind them. Nanouschka
Myrberg, Cecilia von Heijne and Peter Ilisch dealt with the
coins and coin finds of the 13th and 14th centuries against the
background of the Northern Crusades, while Gitte Tarnow
dealt with the early medieval monetary history of Bornholm
and Denmark.
The second day of the symposium started with Polish and Lithuanian monetary history. Stanisław Suchodolski discussed
the problems of the Polish coins of the 11th and 12th centuries. Borys Paszkiewicz concentrated on a single denomination: ‘Why was the halbscoter not half a scot?’ The paper by
Vytautas Aleksiejūnas on the symbolism of Lithuanian coins
of the 15th and 16th centuries caused a lively exchange of opinions. Dalia Grimalauskaitė and the Belarusian numismatist
Ivan Sintšuk (who was not present) discussed the account
books and other numismatic sources concerning the Grand
Duke Alexander of Lithuania. Viktors Dāboliņš presented a
paper prepared together with Tatjana Berga on the beginning
of the minting in Riga 800 years ago. Jørgen Steen Jensen
discussed the contacts between Jakob Reichel, the wellknown St. Petersburg numismatist, and his Baltic colleagues
in the mid-19th century. The symposium was brought to a
conclusion by Mauri Kiudsoo’s theoretical comments on the
Estonian hoards of the medieval and early modern period.
The symposium was held in the Tallinn City Archives. On the
first evening there was a memorable reception in the medieval City Hall, and the next day we could see the resto-
The new exhibition was opened on 28 May 2011 in the Estonian History Museum in the former Great Guild Hall. In
2010 the building celebrated its 600th anniversary, and in
connection with the extensive reconstruction and restoration work, the historical excise chamber, built in 1551, was
transformed into a permanent exhibition of the coins and
banknotes that were used in Estonia over the centuries. The
exhibition, named “Striking it Rich” (Ratsa rikkaks), is divided
chronologically into six parts, beginning with the Viking Age
(9th–12th c.). The monetary history of all the periods is presented on interactive touch screens. About 900 coins and a
number of banknotes are exhibited. In earlier times, the use
of coins as jewellery was very common in Estonia, and such
jewellery is also presented, together with many other objects, like purses, scales and coin weights. There is also information about the wages and prices of every period. Great
rarities are shown in a special safe room – at the moment a
sreberenik of Yaroslav the Wise. For the kids, there is a dragon guarding treasures and making noises.
Ivar Leimus,
Estonian History Museum, Tallinn
Riga, Latvia - The Association of Baltic Numismatists:
events and commemorations in Riga
On 25 May 2011 the conference “Riga’s money-800 years”
was held in the National Museum of History of Latvia. There
were presentations by the Director of the National Museum
of History of Latvia Arnis Radiņis (The political and economic
situation in the Baltic Sea Region in XIIth century), Museum’s
numismatists Kristīne Ducmane (Money in Latvia territory
in XIIIth century), Anda Ozoliņa (Minting in Riga in XIIIth century), archeologist Ēvalds Mugurēvičs (Mārtiņsala (Holme) –
first finding place of Riga’s coins) and by Maruta Brūkle of
the Bank of Latvia (The collector coins of the Bank of Latvia
over time). Seven papers were read in archaeological and
numismatic themes. On the occasion of the conference an
exhibition with the same name was displayed, organized by
K. Ducmane. The members of the Association of Baltic Numismatists were invited to the conference and exhibition. In
this occasion the seventh annual meeting of the Association
was held in Riga on 25–26 May.
On 21 June 2011 the exhibition “Anton Buchholtz (1848–
1901): numismatist and collector” was opened in The Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation. The exhibition
is dedicated to the history of coin minting in Riga and to Dr.
phil. A. Buchholtz as a founder of Livonian numismatics to
celebrate the 110th anniversary of the death of this prominent Baltic German historian, archaeologist and numismatist. The world’s largest collection of Baltic coins and medals amassed by A. Buchholtz is preserved at the Museum
of the History of Riga and Navigation. The museum has published a facsimile edition with commentaries : “Dr. Phil. An-
ton Buchholtz Baltic Coin and Medal Collection Catalogue
(Dr. phil. Anton Buchholtz Sammlung baltischen Münzen und
Medaillen von Heinrich Johumsen)” (Rīga: Rīgas vēstures un
kuģniecības muzejs, 2011, by Tatjana Berga).
On the same day the unveiling of a commemorative tomb
stone at Anton Buchholtz’ final resting place in Riga’s “Lielie
Kapi” cemetery took place. The tombstone was manufactured in part with funds donated by the Association of Baltic
Numismatists.
Dalia Grimalauskait ė
Announcements
Survey of Numismatic Research 2002-2007
The Survey of Numismatic Research 2002-2007, published at
the occasion of the XIV International Numismatic Congress in
Glasgow (2009) is now available
online on the website of the INC/
CIN.
S u r v e y 2 0 0 2 - 2 0 0 7 (pdf)
S u r v e y 2 0 0 2 - 2 0 0 7 E r r a t a (pdf)
Messina, Italy - LIN Project
Thanks to a new grant form the Italian Ministry of University
and Research, the LIN Project (Lexicon Iconographicum Numismaticae Classicae et Mediae Aetatis) was able to resume
its work on the topic of Coinage and territorial identity: from
Ancient ‘Polis’ to Mediaeval ‘Civitas’.
The four research units will deal respectively with:
1. Coinage and Mediterranean identity: the personifications
of cities or eponymous nymphs and their relation with the
Sea (Messina Unit: Coordinator Maria Caccamo Caltabiano);
2. Tychai / Personification of cities and female town divinities:
coinage of the Imperial period in the Roman East (Bologna
Unit: Coordinator Anna Lina Morelli);
3. Coinage and civic provincial Identity: Reality and Sym
bology of the Rivers’ and Mountains’ Images (Genoa Unit:
Coordinator Rossella Pera);
4. The cities’ numismatic ‘lexicon’: the founder’s image from
the ancient ‘polis’ to the medieval ‘civitas’ (Milan Unit: Coordinator Lucia Travaini).
The objectives are twofold:
1. to demonstrate the importance of coin iconography to further our historical knowledge of the ancient and medieval
periods by means of monographic studies, articles and entries for the LIN;
2. to set up a functional computing system to continue, and
internationalize the project LIN through DIANA “Digital Iconographic Atlas of Numismatics in Antiquity”.
The aim of our study is the historical reconstruction of the
monetary types as an expression of identity and power, and
of cultural relations and influences between the peoples of
the Mediterranean. We will highlight the role of the “female”
component in restablishing civic identity through Personifications of the Cities, Amazons, ‘Tychai’ and Polyadic Deities.
At the same time, a “male” role will emerge, reflected by the
existence of human and divine eponymous founders, and - in
the Middle Ages - of Bishop Saints in relation to the origins
of cities.
The DIANA digital Atlas of coin types is a database for the
diachronic and diatopic distribution on “digital maps” of the
individual entries of the four Research Units. The entries for
the various categories of subjects, which form the extensive
iconographic heritage of coinage will be posted online and
made available free of charge to provide a model for outside
contributors, to promote the internationalisation of the LIN
Project.
Maria Caccamo Caltabiano,
Università degli Studi di Messina
The INC Annual Travel Grant 2012-2013
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 2012/2013
a travelling scholarship of € 2,700 and a grant-in-aid of € 800.
Applicants must be less than 35 years old on December 31st
2011, 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, 2012, and include:
1) a curriculum vitae, with a list of publications, a detailed
plan of research with travel itinerary
2) a reference from a numismatic specialist who is or will be
supervising the work
3) 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 2012 after examining the
applications in consultation with specialists from the INC or
others if necessary.
La bourse annuelle du CIN 2012-2013
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 2012/2013 une
bourse d’un montant de 2 700 € et une aide à la recherche
plus réduite de 800 €.
Les candidats doivent avoir moins de 35 ans au 31.12.2011
et avoir en cours ou en projet une recherche numismatique
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,
Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien avant le 1er mars 2012 (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 2012 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, espagnol,
français, italien.
Das Reisestipendium des INR 2012-2013
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 2012/2013 ein Reisestipendium in
Höhe von 2’700 EUR und eine kleinere Subvention von 800
EUR.
Bewerben können sich junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler bis zu 35 Jahren (Stichtag 31.12.2011), die eine
grösseres numismatisches Forschungsprojekt in Arbeit haben oder planen. Das Stipendium soll dazu dienen, 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 die
Sekretärin der Kommission, Dr. Michael Alram, Münzkabinett, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Burgring 5, A-1010 Wien.
Beizufügen sind:
1) ein Lebenslauf mit Nachweis des Studiums und Schriftenverzeichnis, ein 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 Ehrenmit
gliedes oder eines/r Verantwortlichen eines Münzkabinettes
oder Institutes, der/die kein Mitglied des Büros des INR ist).
Termin für die Bewerbung ist der 1. März 2012 (Datum des
Poststempels). Die Entscheidung über die eingegangenen
Bewerbungen trifft das Büro des INR nach der Beurteilung
durch Sachverständige aus dem Kreis der Mitglieder des
INR, in Ausnahmefällen auch durch andere Experten, an der
Jahressitzung 2012.
Tübingen, Deutschland - Das Institut für Klassische
Archäologie der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
sucht eine/n Akademische Mitarbeiterin/Akademischen Mitarbeiter
Das Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Eberhard Karls
Universität Tübingen sucht zum ehest möglichen Zeitpunkt
(befristet auf 2 Jahre) eine/n Akademische Mitarbeiterin /
Akademischen Mitarbeiter.
Das Aufgabengebiet umfasst primär die Vertretung der Lehre
auf dem Gebiet der antiken Numismatik (4 LVS) sowie die
wissenschaftliche Erforschung, Erschließung und Betreuung
der numismatischen Sammlungen des Instituts im Museum
Schloss Hohentübingen. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich
sowohl an Numismatiker mit archäologisch geprägtem For
schungsschwerpunkt als auch an Klassische Archäologen
mit stark numismatisch geprägtem Forschungsschwerpunkt. Einstellungsvoraussetzung ist eine sehr gute Promotion
im Fach Antike Numismatik oder Klassische Archäologie. Es
wird außerdem erwartet, dass der/die MitarbeiterIn eigene
wissenschaftliche Projekte zum Zwecke einer Habilitation
verfolgt, sich an Drittmittelprojekten des Instituts beteiligt
oder solche selbständig einwirbt. Die Weiterführung der antiken Numismatik an der Universität Tübingen ist auch nach
Ablauf der zwei Jahre geplant.
Die Universität Tübingen strebt eine Erhöhung des Anteils
von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre an und bittet deshalb
entsprechend qualifizierte Wissenschaftlerinnen um ihre
Bewerbung. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung
bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Bewerbungen werden bis zum 31. Oktober 2011 erbeten an
den Direktor des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie,
Prof. Dr. Thomas Schäfer,
Schloss Hohentübingen,
D – 72070 Tübingen Tel. 07071/ 2972378
Colloquia and Meetings
Paris, France - École Pratique des Hautes Études
(12-14 septembre 2011)
Colloque Mine, métal, monnaie. Autour du cas de
Melle, les voies de la quantification de l’histoire monétaire du haut Moyen Âge
La quantification monétaire, qu’il
s’agisse de l’Antiquité ou des périodes plus récentes de l’Histoire,
est une préoccupation majeure
des historiens des échanges
et des numismates. Pour le
haut Moyen Âge, le manque
de données chiffrées a par
le passé incité à étudier cette
question par des approches
extérieures à la monnaie. Des travaux récents démontrent toutefois que l’examen des données
qui l’entourent peut constituer une approche légitime
pour cette période. L’étude
en cours de la signature géochimique du métal produit à
Melle, dans le cadre du projet
ANR FAHMA (Filière de l’argent
au haut Moyen Âge) conduit à essayer de mettre en évidence ses liens
avec le monnayage émis au nom de cette cité et au-delà.
Ces éléments de réflexion supplémentaires nous invitent à
réfléchir sur l’importance quantitative de la production minière de Melle et à sa contribution au stock métallique et
monétaire disponible à l’époque. L’ambition de cette rencontre est de prolonger la réflexion sur cette approche de la
quantification, mais aussi de la mettre en perspective avec
les autres modes et modèles qui ont pu être proposés. International Numismatic e-Newsletter — No 11 — October 2011 - p.8
Le cas de Melle nous place dans le monde Franc altomédiéval, mais des éclairages sont nécessaires sur les monnayages byzantins et arabes, orientaux et occidentaux, ou
anglo-saxons pour lesquels ont été mises en œuvre diverses
méthodes spécifiques. Des comparaisons avec d’autres
sites miniers liés à des productions monétaires seront également proposées : il s’agira avant tout de mettre en valeur les
procédures de raisonnement et les présupposés fondant les
propositions de quantification de la production monétaire, de
la masse monétaire en circulation ou de l’intensité de cette
circulation.
Exhibitions
Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Münzkabinett
Götter, Menschen und das Geld der Griechen. Glanzstücke der griechischen Münzprägung aus Wien
und Winterthur (21. Juni bis 16. Oktober 2011)
Guillaume Sarah,
UMR 5060 IRAMAT-Centre Ernest-Babelon, Orléans
Roma, Italia - I Workshop Internazionale di Numismatica (WIN) (28-30 settembre 2011)
Il I Workshop Interna
zionale di Numismatica
(WIN), dal titolo “Numismatica e Archeologia. Monete, stratigrafie e contesti. Dati
a confronto”, si terrà
dal 28 al 30 settembre
2011 presso l’Odeion
del Museo dell’Arte
Classica di SapienzaUniversità di Roma.
Lo scopo del I WIN è
quello di riunire studiosi
di diversa nazionalità
che nel corso delle loro
ricerche si sono occupati di “numismatica contestuale”,
ovvero di archeologia e moneta, di ritrovamenti monetali e
contesti archeologici, di affrontare e discutere metodi innovativi per lo studio e l’interpretazione dei rinvenimenti monetali a partire dai loro contesti di provenienza, attraverso
la presentazione di alcune tra le più significative ricerche in
cui lo studio della moneta non sia avvenuto in maniera ‘indipendente’ da quello degli altri materiali, ma sia stato invece
integrato nell’analisi del contesto nel suo complesso.
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Giacomo Pardini,
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
Sapienza-Università di Roma
Nicosia, Cyprus - XVIII ICOMON Annual Meeting (10-13 October 2011)
The XVIII ICOMON Annual Meeting will be held between 10
and 13 of October 2011 in Nicosia, Cyprus. It is hosted and
organised by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
This year’s theme is: Money Museums Communicating with
the Public
The registration is to be found on line:
http://www.topkinisis.com/conference/ICOMON/index.html
Eleni Zapiti
Das Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums zeigt
in Kooperation mit dem Münzkabinett und der Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur eine Sonderausstellung
zu den „Meisterwerken der griechischen Münzprägung“.
Die ersten Münzen entstanden Ende des 7. Jahrhunderts v.
Chr. im kleinasiatischen Raum und verbreiteten sich rasch
in der gesamten griechischen Welt. Schnell erkannte man,
dass Münzen nicht nur als Zahlungsmittel geeignet waren, sondern auch als Nachrichtenträger und Identitäts
stifter eingesetzt werden konnten. Münzen wurden so zum
ersten Massenkommunikationsmittel der Geschichte. Ziel
der Ausstellung ist es einerseits, den wirtschaftlichen Aspekt des Münzgeldes in der griechischen Staatenwelt vom
7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum Beginn des Hellenismus zur
Zeit Alexanders des Großen (336 - 323 v. Chr.) zu beleuchten, und andererseits den Besucherinnen und Besuchern
die vielfältige Bildersprache der Münzen und ihre Rolle als
Kommunikationsmedium im politischen, kulturellen und religiösen Alltagsleben der Griechen vor Augen zu führen.
Die Sammlungen des KHM-Münzkabinetts und des Münz
kabinetts und der Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur
ergänzen sich dabei in hervorragender Weise und werden darüber hinaus durch Objekte der Kleinkunst aus der
Antikensammlung des KHM ergänzt.
Die Ausstellung wird anschließend ab Oktober 2011 zur
150-Jahrfeier des Münzkabinetts in Winterthur präsentiert.
Michael ALRAM, Klaus VONDROVEC,
Ulrich WERZ, Benedikt ZÄCH,
Götter, Menschen und das Geld der Griechen (Wien 2011)
ISBN 978-3-907047-07-1 .
Websites
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Münzkabinett, Residenzschloss
The German Contemporary Art Medal (26 March- 31
October 2011)
H ubertus
von
P ilgrim : T he L ion and the R at (L a F ontaine ), 2007,
bronze , 108 mm (P hoto : J. K arpinski , D resden )
For the past 20 years, medallic art in Germany has undergone an interesting development. It is characterised by new
forms of expression, artistic experimentation, diversity of
materials and a broad spectrum of themes. The Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Medaillenkunst (German Society for Medallic Art), of which the Dresden Münzkabinett has been a member since the Society’s foundation in 1991, is successfully
fostering medallic art in Germany. In addition, Germany regularly submits a selection of the best works for display in the
world exhibitions of the Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d’Art (FIDEM). As the exhibits of the past two decades
show, Germany advanced to become one of the leading nations in medallic art in terms of the quality and quantity of the
works selected. The exhibition “Die deutsche Kunstmedaille
der Gegenwart” (The German Contemporary Art Medal) focuses particularly on the German contributions to the FIDEM
expositions in Colorado Springs (USA) in 2007 and in Tampere (Finland) in 2010, these works being supplemented by
other important art medals created in recent years. A total
of around 150 medals by more than 50 artists from all over
Germany are on display, with the regions of Halle, Berlin,
Dresden, Cologne and Munich playing a prominent role as
centres of contemporary medallic art. Attention is drawn in
particular to the remarkable way in which artists working in
this genre have taken up social and sociocritical themes.
Il Portale Numismatico dello Stato Italiano
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Nell’ambito di un più vasto progetto di valorizzazione dei beni
culturali, il Portale Numismatico
dello Stato – nato nel 2008 e
oggetto di progressiva e costante implementazione -, rappresenta oggi un importante e
potente strumento per la conoscenza e la divulgazione della
Numismatica. Frutto della collaborazione fra il Ministero per
i Beni e le Attività Culturali, il Ministero dell’Economia e delle
Finanze e l’Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, il Portale
si colloca nell’ambito del sistema B i b l i o t e c a V i r t u a l e d e l l o
S t a t o con l’esigenza istituzionale di rendere fruibili le collezioni pubbliche da parte di tutti i cittadini. L’iniziativa, che ha
avuto come sua principale e infaticabile animatrice la Direttrice del “Bollettino di Numismatica”, Silvana Balbi De Caro,
mira alla conoscenza e alla valorizzazione dell’immenso patrimonio numismatico posseduto dall’Italia, per la maggior
parte poco noto e spesso irraggiungibile dagli studiosi e dal
grande pubblico. Il Portale si articola in tre grandi sezioni: Istituzioni e patrimonio, Bollettino di Numismatica, Banca Dati
IVNO MONETA.
Istituzioni e Patrimonio
Il ‘Notiziario’, situato nell’homepage, accoglie il visitatore
con la comunicazione di eventi culturali o fatti scientifici interessanti l’ambito della numismatica. Le notizie riguardano
Mostre, Seminari e Convegni; fra gli altri il Primo Workshop
Internazionale di Numismatica (Roma, 28-30 settembre
2011), e il X V C o n g re s s o I n t e r n a z i o n a l e d i N u m i s m a t i c a
(Messina/Taormina, 21-25 Settembre 2015).
Sotto il titolo ‘Patrimonio Numismatico’ la sezione raccoglie
la Banca dati dei musei statali, di enti locali e privati, di cui
fornisce informazioni generali e dati concernenti il materiale
di interesse numismatico da essi posseduto. La ricerca è
possibile tramite una mappa interattiva (Atlante). Nella medesima sezione il Portale offre sette diverse Rubriche: ‘Normativa’ approfondisce l’aspetto legislativo della Numismatica;
‘Tutela’ si propone come utile guida per la salvaguardia del
bene culturale moneta; ‘Conservazione e restauro’ è affidata
alla cura dell’Istituto Centrale per il Restauro; ‘Catalogazione’
è presentata dall’Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione; a ‘Numismatica e Archivi collabora’ l’Archivio
di Stato di Roma, che raccoglie approfondimenti in tema di
storia numismatica documentata da fonti archivistiche. ‘Vetrine e Itinerari’ propone, infine, viaggi virtuali all’interno dei
Medaglieri italiani, mediante percorsi guidati dai curatori,
come dimostra la presentazione del Medagliere del Museo
Archeologico di Napoli.
A ndreas A. J ähnig : F acades , 2006, bronze , 89 mm
(P hoto : M. S chöder , D resden )
Rainer Grund,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Bollettino di Numismatica on line
Nato nel 1983, il “Bollettino di Numismatica” fu ideato quale
collettore unico e ufficialmente riconosciuto in cui far confluire
le informazioni sul
patrimonio
numismatico italiano, con
la pubblicazione di
tesoretti o complessi
organici di monete
provenienti da regolari scavi archeologici,
o di monete confluite
nelle Collezioni numismatiche di maggior
rilievo.
All’edizione
dei materiali si è affiancato il dibattito interdisciplinare, legato
alle principali tematiche di ricerca. Nel tempo la sua sfera
d’interesse si è estesa anche agli altri materiali, gemme (cfr.
Sylloge Gemmarum Gnosticarum del 2003), medaglie e sigilli, custoditi per tradizione nei Gabinetti numismatici. Particolare attenzione è stata riservata anche a gruppi di monete,
omogenei per epoca ed area di provenienza, ma dispersi sul
territorio in differenti raccolte, come nel caso delle monete di
zecca hispanica o le monete puniche presenti nelle collezioni
italiane. Il Bollettino ha dato spazio anche a scritti miscellanei quali gli Studi per Laura Breglia (voll. 3, 1987), o Monete
e Medaglie, in cui sono stati raccolti gli scritti di F. Panvini
Rosati (voll. 2, 2004), ma anche a cataloghi di Mostre di particolare interesse (Bonomia docet, 1988; Uomini, libri, meda
glieri, 1995; Le monete dello Stato estense, 1999; Téchne, le
forme dell’arte, 2004). Numerose rubriche del Bollettino sono
state dedicate a settori di ricerca di particolare interesse per
la numismatica, quali le ‘Fonti archivistiche’ e le ‘Applicazioni
tecnologiche’.
Il Portale garantisce ora la consultazione via internet della Rivista e della relativa banca dati, insieme ad una serie di indici
strutturati per autori, soggetti, zecche di emissione, elenchi
topografici di tesoretti o di esemplari monetali rinvenuti nel
corso di scavi archeologici. Sono consultabili in formato pdf
i volumi editi a partire dall’anno 2000, fino al volume n. 50,
pubblicato nel 2008.
Per celebrare la ricorrenza del centenario della pubblicazione
del I volume del Corpus Nummorum Italicorum (1910), la Direzione Generale per le Antichità ha di recente organizzato
due Giornate di studio sul tema “La Collezione di Vittorio Em
anuele III di Savoia e gli studi di storia monetaria” (Roma, 2122 ottobre 2010). Le relazioni (dedicate alla formazione della
Collezione reale, all’iconografia delle monete del sovrano,
alla documentazione d’archivio e all’editoria numismatica),
hanno inaugurato il primo fascicolo del “Bollettino di Numismatica on line”, Studi e Ricerche, pubblicato nell’ottobre
2010 in Edizione speciale.
Banca dati IVNO MONETA
La creazione della banca dati digitale Iuno Moneta prevede
la progressiva messa in rete della intera Collezione di monete donata al popolo italiano dal Re “Numismatico”, Vittorio Emanuele III di Savoia, nel 1946. Ciascuna moneta viene
presentata mediante l’immagine fotografica del diritto e del
rovescio, ed illustrata con la scheda tecnica e la corrispon-
dente pagina del Corpus Nummorum Italicorum (CNI), o di
altra pubblicazione aggiornata.
Attualmente il Portale offre alla lettura sei volumi dei venti
complessivi che costituiscono il CNI. In formato pdf essi
sono relativi alle monete di Casa Savoia (vol. I), alle zecche
dell’Emilia (voll. IX-X), alle monete emesse dalla zecca di
Roma dalla caduta dell’Impero d’Occidente all’anno 1870
(voll. XV-XVI-XVII).
Come affermato dalla responsabile scientifica e coordinatrice del Portale, dott. ssa Serafina Pennestrì, « L’obiettivo
comune è che esso [il Portale] possa rappresentare una
guida per tutti coloro che sono interessati al patrimonio numismatico pubblico italiano, alla sua tutela e alla sua reale e
consapevole fruizione ».
Maria Caccamo Caltabiano,
Università degli Studi di Messina
MANTIS at the American Numismatic Society
The American Numismatic Society, New-York, announced
earlier this year the unveiling of MANTIS, a new, long awaited
and desired online search engine for our collection. Users
who now search the ANS collection via h t t p : / / n u m i s m a t i c s .
o r g / s e a rc h / will notice immediate improvements in access
and in the interface. Behind the scenes we are continually working to update and regularize the database to insure
more accurate and complete searches as well.
Peter van Alfen,
ANS
New Books
General
Marisa Katharina Hermans, Das Schatzregal. Eine Gegenüberstellung der Rechtsverhältnisse an einem Schatz
im deutschen und niederländischen Recht unter Berücksichtigung öffentlich-rechtlicher Sonderbestimmungen. Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster, Reihe III, Bd. 6)
(Münster, 2011). ISBN 978-3-8405-0045-9 , 437 S.
Robert D. Leonard, Curious currency: the story of money
from the Stone Age to the Internet Age, Whitman publishing
(Atlanta, 2010). 152 p., ill. ISBN 0784822894
Ferenc Soós, Magyar numizmatikusok panteonja (Pantheon
of Hungarian Numismatists) (Budapest, Argumentum- Magyar Éremgyűjtők Egyesülete-Magyar Numizmatikai Társulat
2010). 270 p. ill. (English, French and German summaries)
ISBN 978-963-446-579-9
The book gives short curriculum vitae, main works and pictures of the tombs of of numismatists in the wider sense.
They were collectors, amateur and professional archaeologists, historians, art writers, sculptors and medallists, professional numismatists and librarians who were entrusted
to handle, systematize, study and look after coin collections. In the pantheon are: Andreas Alföldi, archaeologist
and ancient historian, József Antall, vice-president of the
Hungarian Numismatic Society and the prime minister of
Hungary 1990-1993, Fülöp Beck Ö. sculptor and medallist,
count Miklós Dessewffy who donated his Celtic coin collection to the Hungarian National Museum, count Miklós
Zrínyi, poet and general in the 17 th century who had a large
numismatic collection and many others.
Lucia Travaini (Monica Baldassarri, Cinisello Balsamo coll.),
Il patrimonio artistico di Banca Carige. Monete, pesi e bilance
monetali (Milano, 2010), 432 p., ill. ISBN 978-8836618378
La collezione numismatica di Banca Carige può essere
considerata a buon diritto una delle più importanti raccolte
al mondo di monete genovesi e liguri, ampia per numero di
esemplari posseduti e varia nella tipologia dei pezzi rappresentati, con molti pezzi unici o di straordinaria rarità.
Oltre alle 1371 monete di Genova e di altre zecche, di vari
metalli e battute con conii più o meno elaborati, il catalogo
comprende altri oggetti accomunati dal legame con l’affascinante storia delle monete, come le bilance per l’esercizio
delle attività di cambiavalute e 185 pesi monetali genovesi,
usati con le bilance.
Lucia Travaini ed., Le zecche italiane fino all’Unità, Libreria
della Stato - Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca della Stato (Roma,
2011). 2 vol., 1664 p, ill. pl. ISBN 978-8824013338
Questo libro raccoglie la documentazione relativa a tutte
le zecche italiane dal V secolo d.C. fino all’Unità: si tratta
di una raccolta commentata di informazioni di provenienza
assai diversa, e spesso dispersa in pubblicazioni e in lingue
non facilmente accessibili (come il russo per le zecche sul
Mar Nero), qui raccolta per la prima volta in un’unica opera.
Scopo del libro è quello di offrire una visione e comprensione più ampia e comparativa dell’attività delle zecche italiane, permettendo la revisione critica di saggi e repertori di
numismatica italiana medievale e moderna; sarà uno strumento insostituibile per la catalogazione di monete italiane
e per l’utilizzazione e revisione del Corpus Nummorum Italicorum. Non esistono lavori simili per altri Paesi d’Europa.
L’intero sommario dell’opera con i nomi degli autori si trova
sulla homepage del sito www.luciatravaini.it .
Numismatic Collection of the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities Institute of Archaeological Sciences. Ed.:
Márton Gyöngyössy – Orsolya Mészáros (Budapest, 2010).
96 p. ill. ISBN 978-963-284-179-3
The Eötvös Loránd University celebrates its 375th anniversary in 2010. This representative publication is intended to
introduce one of the university’s oldest departments and
its collection with a selection from the rich numismatic
material. The coin collection was established in 1753 by
Lipót Fischer, a Jesuit priest and this act, in a sense, can
be regarded as the foundation of the department. The university’s coin cabinet, representing the oldest numismatic
collection in Budapest, has been one of the pillars of Hungarian archaeological education.
The collection contains today about 20,000 coins. The
composition of the collection clearly shows that it was
not assembled systematically, it was principally enlarged
through donations and by coin finds from the territory of
Hungary during the 19th and the early 20th century. This is
particularly evident from the ancient material, dominated
by coins from 3nd and 4th centuries, but containing few
Greek or Roman Republican coins. The same situation is
reflected by the medieval material, which comprises only
two hundred pieces representing the Árpádian Age, and
several thousand from the reigns of Matthias I, Wladislas
II and Louis II. Most of the post-medieval coins are 16th17th century German and Polish issues, these being the
most frequent pieces in the coin hoards of this period. After
World War 2 the enlargement of the collection practically
ceased.
Celtic Numismatics
Michel Feugere & Michel Py, Dictionnaire des monnaies découvertes
en Gaule méditerranéenne (53027 av. n. è.), Éd. Monique Mergoil /
BnF, Montagnac-Paris, 2011, 720 p. ISBN 9782355180149
Bernward Ziegaus, Kelten-Geld : Münzen der Kelten-Sammlung Christian
Flesche, München, 2011, 311 p.; col.
ill. ISBN 9783922840251
Greek and Roman Numismatics
Michel Amandry dir., Trésors Monétaires XXIV. Trésors d’or.
Les Sablons (Mayenne), Lava (Corse), Partinico, Martigné-sur-Mayenne, BnF (Paris, 2011)
ISBN 978-2-7177-2492-9 , 200 p., 27 pl.,
8 col. pl.
Ce qui lie les dépôts publiés dans
le volume XXIV des Tr é s o r s m o n é t a i re s n’est ni leur lieu de découverte, ni l’époque à laquelle ils
ont été enfouis, mais le métal. Ces
quatre dépôts sont en effet uniquement constitués d’espèces en or (et
d’argent dans le cas de Martigné).
Le dépôt monétaire des Sablons,
commune du Mans, inventé en 1997
se compose de 152 statères en or
allié appartenant à trois séries monétaires : une série à l’hippocampe en cimier dont l’attribution traditionnelle aux Vénètes est remise en cause et
deux séries à la boucle sur la joue attribuées aux Aulerques
cénomans.
Le dépôt de Lava, dont les premiers éléments ont été tirés
de la mer en 1957, a fait l’objet d’un catalogue en 1958
et en 1980. L’inventaire actuel porte désormais sur 450
exemplaires. Cet ensemble regroupe aurei laurés, radiés,
multiples d’or et objets d’orfèvrerie, immobilisé par un naufrage en 272-273 ap. J.-C.
Vraisemblablement découvert au large des côtes de la Sicile à la fin des années 1950, le dépôt dit « de Partinico »
constitue l’une des plus extraordinaires trouvailles de monnaies d’or du Bas-Empire. Cette nouvelle tentative de reconstitution rassemble 174 exemplaires, dont 35 multiples
d’or et 139 aurei, s’échelonnant de 276-277 à 308 ap. J.-C.
Enfin le trésor de Martigné-sur-Mayenne, inventé en 1967,
se compose de deux lots distincts : 275 monnaies d’or
et 86 monnaies d’argent du XVe siècle. À coté des florins
d’Utrecht, émis pendant la seconde moitié du XVe siècle, les
monnaies les plus récentes sont les trois écus de Charles
VIII et l’écu de Louis XII.
Jean-Luc Dengis, Trouvailles et trésors monétaires en Belgique :
VII. Province de Luxembourg. La période gallo-romaine, Moneta 116 (Wetteren, 2011), 198 p.
VIII. Province de Liège, Moneta 120 (Wetteren, 2011), 172 p.
IX. Province de Namur, Moneta 123 (Wetteren, 2011), 302 p.
X. Province du Hainaut, Moneta 126 (Wetteren, 2011), 400 p.
XI. Province de Brabant, Moneta 127 (Wetteren, 2011), 120 p.
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François De Callataÿ ed., Quantifying monetary supplies in Greco-Roman times, Edipuglia, (Bari, 2011)
ISBN 9788872285992 , 332 p. ill.
The quantification of the monetary supply in Greco-Roman times is a desired goal set by historians of the ancient
economy before the Second World War. In the 1970s and
1980s, many statistical methods were proposed in order
to estimate the original number of dies used to produce
a particular coinage. Despite initial strong skepticism, a
consensus has now been achieved regarding the legitimacy
of such methods. But the real goal of the historian is to
estimate the approximate numbers of coins issued, and
this requires the use of historical evidence. In the1990s,
a fierce debate erupted regarding the key question of the
average productivity per die between those who claim that
the uncertainty is too large to draw any meaningful conclusions, and those who argue that such calculations are nonetheless helpful in many circumstances. This book offers
an up-to-date view of where we are today, with eighteen
papers reflecting different levels of support for such calculations. The first seven papers deal with historiography
and methodology, while the following ones are devoted to
case-studies: nine Greek, covering Athens, Ionia, South
Italy and Sicily, the Seleucids, Palestine, and Thasos, and
two dealing with Roman coinage.
CONTENTS
- François de Callataÿ. Quantifying monetary production in
Greco-Roman times: a general frame
- Elio Lo Cascio. La quantificazione dell’offerta di moneta a
Roma: il ruolo del credito
- Warren W. Esty. The geometric model for estimating the
number of dies
- Clive Stannard. Evaluating the monetary supply: were dies
reproduced mechanically in Antiquity?
- Benedetto Carroccio. Parallel striking reconstruction and
chronological numismatic interpretation
- Theodore V. Buttrey. Quantification of ancient coin production: the third element
- Thomas Faucher. Productivité des coins et taux de survie
du monnayage grec
- Peter G. van Alfen. Hatching owls: Athenian public finance
and the regulation of coin production
- Koray Konuk. War tokens for silver? Quantifying the early
bronze issues of Ionia
- Louis Brousseau. Les productions monétaires des ateliers
grecs de Grande Grèce du VIe au IVe siècle av. J.-C. Essai
de quantification comparée
- Mariangela Puglisi. Coin circulation data as a source for
quantifying monetary supplies
- Maria Caccamo Caltabiano. The importance of an iconic
program in ancient coin production
- Panagiotis P. Iossif. Seleucid religion through coins: is it
possible to quantify “iconography” and “religion”?
- Oliver D. Hoover. Time is money? A second look at production quantification and chronology in the late Seleucid
period
- Haim Gitler. Different aspects of the quantification of Persian period coinages of Palestine
- Olivier Picard. Types monétaires et trésors : le cas de Thasos
- Michel Amandry. La production monétaire des cités pontiques à l’époque impériale : synchronismes et quantification
- Johan van Heesch. Quantifying Roman imperial coinage
Christophe Flament, Contribution à l’étude des ateliers
monétaires grecs. Étude comparée des conditions de
fabrication de la monnaie à Athènes, dans le Péloponnèse et dans le royaume de Macédoine à l’époque classique, Études numismatiques, 3 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2010) ISBN 978-2930449142 , 154 p., ill.
Martin Huth and Peter Van Alfen ed., Coinage of the
Caravan Kingdoms. Studies in the Monetization of Ancient Arabia, ed. by. Numismatic Studies, 25 (New York:
The American Numismatic Society, 2011). 602 p., 42 pl. ISBN 978-0-89722-312-6.
This volume represents the first comprehensive look at
ancient Arabian coinage in toto since George Hill’s 1922
British Museum catalogue. In addition to a catalogue and
updated typologies of Philistian,
Nabataean, Minaen, Qatabanian,
Sabaean, Himyarite, and Gerrhean
coinages, among others, and die
studies of the owl and Alexander
imitations, this volume features
essays written by numismatists,
archaeologists, and epigraphists
that situate the coins within their
political, social, and economic
contexts. As these studies demonstrate, the beginnings of coinage in Arabia followed two very
distinct traditions, the first along
a line running roughly from Gaza
on the Mediterranean coast to the
Hadhramawt on the Arabian Sea, the other in eastern Arabia, running along the Persian Gulf coast from the mouth of
the Euphrates to the Oman peninsula.
Ursula Kampmann, Die Münzen der römischen Kaiserzeit,
Battenberg, 2. erweit. Auflage (Regenstauf, 2011), 544 p.
ISBN 978-3866460713
Ursula Kampmann, Im Schatten der Adler Roms : Münzen der Republik aus der Sammlung Kurt Wyprächtiger,
Sunflower - Money Museum (Zürich, 2011), 240 p., ill. ISBN 978-3035090079
Constantina Katsari, The Roman Monetary System:
The Eastern Provinces from the First to the Third Century AD Cambridge Univ. Press (Cambridge, 2011), 314 p. ISBN 9780521769464
Peter Franz Mittag, Römische Medaillons. Caesar bis Hadrian, Franz Steiner Verlag (Stuttgart, 2010), 237 p., 69 pl.
ISBN 978-3-515-09699-7
Emanuel Petac, Aspecte ale circulaţiei monetare în Dacia
Romană (106-275 p. Chr.) / Aspects de la circulation monétaire en Dacie romaine (105-275 apr. J.-C.), Moneta 115,
Wetteren, 2011, 392 p. ISBN 978-90-77297-83-4
Adriano Savio, Veri o falsi ? I medaglioni di Aboukir, CUEM
(Milano, 2011), 174 p., ill. ISBN 9788860012883
Luc Severs, Les monnaies de Liberchies-Bons Villers (Hainaut, Belgique). Quartier artisanal et sanctuaire tardif (1er
siècle avant J.-C. - 4e siècle après J.-C.), Moneta 122 (Wetteren, 2011), 312 p., ill.
Sitta Von Reden, Money in classical antiquity, Cambridge
Univ. Press (Cambridge, 2010), 260 p., 5 maps, 8 pl. ISBN 9780521459525
Bernhard Woytek, Die Reichsprägung des Kaisers Traianus (98-117), MIR 14 ( Wien, 2010), 2 vol., 682 p., 156 pl.
ISBN 978-3700165651
Byzantine and Medieval Numismatics
Tony Abramson ed., Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2 :
New Perspectives, Boydell Press ([s.l.], 2011), 264 p., ill. ISBN 978-1843834663
The imagery and development of early Anglo-Saxon coinage
have recently been the subject of renewed interest amongst
scholars and collectors; the growth of material available
for study, combined with new analytical approaches to
research in this area, has enabled scholars to shed new
light upon what has been, for many decades, overlooked.
Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2, using but not limited
to the proceedings of the second biennial Sceattas Symposium (Leeds, 2008), builds upon the recent advances to
establish a new benchmark for the study of coin typologies.
Contributors: Michael Metcalf, Tony Abramson, Catherine
Karkov, Rory Naismith, Anna Gannon, Wybrand Op den
Velde, Megan Gooch, Barry Ager, Gareth Williams, Mike
Bonser, Stewart Lyon, Arent Pol, James Booth
Kenneth Jonsson, Frédéric Elfver (eds.), Corpus Nummorum saeculorum IX–XI qui in Suecia reperti sunt. Catalogue
of Coins from the Viking Age found in Sweden. 4. Blekinge:
1. Bräkne-Hoby – Sölvesborg (Stockholm 2010), XXVI, 311
p., ill.
ISBN 978-91-7402-393-0.
Hendrik Mäkeler, Reichsmünzwesen im späten Mittelalter 1 :
Das 14. Jahrhundert, Franz Steiner Verlag (Wiesbaden,
2010), 328 p., 6 pl. ISBN 978-3515096584
Manuel M. Monroy et al., La Moneda de Oro en los Reinos
de Castilla y León siglos XII-XV (Madrid, 2010), 159 p., ill.
ISBN 978-8493322748
Andreas Urs Sommer, Die Münzen des byzantinischen
Reiches 491-1453 (Battenberg, 2010), ca. 600 p., ill.
ISBN 978-3866460614
Islamic, Oriental and African Numismatics
Michael Alram, Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Minoru Inaba, Matthias Pfisterer ed., Coins, Art and
Chronology II. The First Millenium in the Indo-Iranian
Borderlands, Verlag der ÖAW (Wien, 2010), 470 p., ill. ISBN 978-3700168850
The pre-Islamic history of southern Central Asia - modern
Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India and the surrounding
areas - continues to pose challenging problems that can
be solved only through interdisciplinary efforts. In the tradition of «Coins, Art and Chronology» (1999), this volume
comprises 24 articles by leading experts in the fields of history, art history, numismatics, archaeology and linguistics in order
to document the current state of
research and presents the results
of two international conferences at
Kyoto and Vienna in autumn 2008.
While the first “Coins, Art and
Chronology” concentrated on the
period of the Kushanas and the
Sasanians, this volume explores
the post-Kushana period and
questions concerning the Hunnic
and Turkic phases in the history of
the region, the main focus of most
of the contributions.
Giulio Bernardi, Arabic Gold Coins 1. The First Essay of a
Corpus from the first issue 65h (Hegira Era) = 684 C (Common Era) to the beginning of the Buwayhid domination 334H
= 946C, Polymnia. Numismatica antica e medieval 1 (Trieste,
2010) ISBN 978-88-8303-284-4
Atom Damali, Osmanlı Sikkeleri Tarihi 3 / History of Ottoman
Coins 3, Nilufer Damali Egitim (Istanbul, 2011), 380 p., ill.,
English-Turkish. ISBN 978-9759327958
Amelia Dowler, Elizabeth R. GALVIN, Money, trade and
route in pre-Islamic North Africa, British Museum Press (London, 2011), 120 p., ill. ISBN 978-0861591763
Judith A. Lerner, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Seals,
Sealings, and Tokens from Bactria to Gandhara (4th to
8th century CE), Verlag der ÖAW (Wien, 2011), 222 p., ill. ISBN 978-3700168973
William A. Oddy, Coinage and history in the seventh century
Near East 2. Proc. of the 12th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table, Archetype (London, 2011), 122 p.
ISBN 978-1904982623
Rahmi Hüseyin Ünal, Friedrich Krinzinger, Michael Alram, Sule Pfeiffer-Tas ed., Der Münzschatz
von Beçin, Verlag der ÖAW (Wien, 2010), 2 vol., 680+592 p.
ISBN 978-3700167259
The cache found in 2000 in Beçin (today’s Milas in
southwestern Turkey), which contained nearly 50,000 Islamic coins and more than 800 European coins, is not only
the largest hoard that has ever been found in Turkey in regular archaeological excavation work, it is also the largest
cache of Ottoman coins that has been found anywhere.
The present volume presents the results of archaeological,
historical, economic and numismatic analyses, which were
undertaken by a collaborative Turkish-Austrian team.
Modern numismatics
Documents and studies on 19th c. monetary history. Republications :
- International Monetary Conferences, Moneta 117-118
(Wetteren, 2011)
- England, Moneta 119 (Wetteren, 2011)
- Japan, Moneta 121 (Wetteren, 2011)
- India, Moneta 124 (Wetteren, 2011)
- France, Moneta 128-130 (Wetteren, 2011)
This series of volumes Documents and Studies on 19 th c. Monetary History aims to republish the main documents related
to the question of bimetallism at the end of the 19 th century.
The series will include several sub-series devoted to the International Monetary Conferences held in various capitals during
the second half of the century and to the specific situation of
different countries (i.e. India, Japan, United States of America,
China, etc.), since the question of monetary systems was a
global question. It will also include specific studies on monetary questions and on monetary history.
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Tuukka Talvio, Cecilia Von Heijne ed., Monetary boundaries
in transition : a North European economic history and the
Finnish War 1808-1809, Statens Historiska Museum (Stockholm, 2010) ISBN 978-9189176416 , 202 p., ill.
Medals and tokens
Personalia
David T. Alexander, American Art Medals, 1909-1995, ANS
Publ. (New York, 2011) ISBN 978-0897223171
Kolbjørn Skaare, 80 years on April 6th 2011
First comprehensive study of the two most important series
of art medals produced in the United States: the medals
of the Circle of Friends of the Medallion (1909-1915) and
those of the Society of Medalists (1930-1995). Together,
these two series offer an unmatched panorama of American
medallic sculpture in the twentieth century.
William Eisler, Images chatoyantes du siècle des lumières :
les médailles des Dassier de
Genève, Skira - Musée d’Art et
d’Histoire Genève (Milano, 2010),
222 p.
ISBN 978-8857205076
Nicolas Maier, Französische Medaillenkunst 1870-1940
[French medallic art - L’art de la médaille en France] (München, 2010), 416 p., ill. English-German-French.
ISBN 978-3000313844
Medallists such as Chaplain, Roty and Charpentier renewed
medallic art in France during the nineteenth century, leading
to a revival that attracted worldwide interest. The volume
«French medallic art 1870-1940» examines the background
to this revival and investigates its development down to the
1930s. The wide range of subjects addressed by the artists
is evident from the numerous illustrations. In addition, the
book provides substantial insights into the medal society
founded by Roger Marx, the Société des Amis de la Mé
daille française (1899–1920). Short biographies are given
for a total of 73 artists who decisively influenced French
medallic art during the periods of Art Nouveau, Symbolism,
Naturalism and Art Deco.
Thierry Sarmant & Francois Ploton-Nicollet, Jetons des
institutions centrales de l’Ancien Régime. Assemblée du
clergé de France, ordres du roi, maisons du roi, de la reine,
du dauphin et de la dauphine. Catalogue, t. 1 (n° 1 à 285),
Bibl. nationale de France (Paris, 2010), 192 p., 700 ill.
ISBN 978-2-7177-2460-8
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Pál Török, Magyarországi érem- és plakettművészet 18501945 (Medaillen- und Plakettenkunst in Ungarn 1850-1945)
Magyar Éremgyűjtők Egyesülete (Budapest, 2011). 271 p.
and 47 pl. English and German introduction.
ISBN 978-963-7122-19-4
Prof. Lajos Huszár’s and Béla Procopius’s excellent work
was published in 1932 under the title Medaillen- und Pla
kettenkunst in Ungarn. It was the most complete catalogue
of Hungarian medal artists till today. The goal of the present work is to continue and supplement this catalogue.
Obviously, the works prepared between 1932 and 1945 are
treated, but also those artists and items that for some reason escaped the attention of the two authors. 484 medallists appear in this volume with 3096 pieces.
Paul Withers, Bente R. Withers, The Token book: British
Tokens of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and their values,
Galata Print (2010), 512 p., ill. ISBN 978-0954316280
Former INC President Professor em. Kolbjørn Skaare turned
80 on April 6th. Skaare is known to IN members as Secretary
from 1979 to 1986 and President 1986 to 1991.
Kolbjørn Skaare was appointed Assistant keeper at the Coin
Cabinet, University of Oslo in 1958, and Professor in 1982.
He acted as head of the Coin Cabinet for most of his professional career until his retirement in 2002. Kolbjørn Skaare’s
more than 500 publications still inspires colleagues on topics
as diverse as Viking Age coinage, medals, Greek and Roman
coinage, modern coin design, banknotes and Norwegian
monetary history in general. His books Coins and Coinage in
Viking-Age Norway (1976), Mynt i Norge (1978), Norsk mynt
i 1000 år (2 vols. 1995) and Mynten, myntene og medaljene
(The History of the Royal Mint 1806-2004, published 2008)
are seminal contributions to
the nations knowledge on
monetary history.
Kolbjørn Skaare is a former
President of The Norwegian
Academy of Science and
Letters, member of several
National and Nordic boards
and has earned a number
of Norwegian as well as international awards. His status as the Grand Old Man
of Numismatics will hold
beyond his 80th birthday.
Colleagues and friends
congratulate heartily.
Håkon Ingvaldsen
Paris, France – Cérémonie de remise des Mélanges
Cécile Morrisson (24 mai 2011)
Le 24 mai 2011, en l’appartement décanal de l’Université
Panthéon-Sorbonne, Cécile Morrisson a reçu le volume 16
des Travaux et Mémoires (C e n t re d ’ H i s t o i re e t Ci v i l i s a t i o n
d e B y z a n c e ) qui lui a été dédié. Édité par Emmanuelle Capet,
Vincent Déroche, Denis Feissel et Constantin Zuckerman, cet
ouvrage de 893 pages, abondamment illustré, rassemble 49
contributions d’historiens, d’archéologues et de numismates
français et étrangers (26 textes en français, 18 en anglais,
4 en italien et un en allemand), ainsi qu’une bibliographie
de la dédicataire. Numismatique et histoire monétaire ou
économique y occupent naturellement une place de choix
en compagnie d’articles sigillographiques et d’une étude
sur la métallurgie antique
et
médiévale
du zinc et du laiton. La documentation monétaire est également
mise à profit ou au
contraire éclairée par
des contributions qui
recourent à l’épigraphie, à la papyrologie à
l’iconographie d’autres
supports tandis que
plusieurs autres sur les
milieux marchands, la
C onstantin Z uckerman offre
le volume à C écile M orrisson
pauvreté ou les biens
monastiques, les rapports d’Alexis Ier et des Latins ou le
partage projeté de l’empire byzantin en 1204 répondent aux
autres centres d’intérêt de la dédicataire.
Gilbert Dagron, professeur honoraire au Collège de France,
Jean-Pierre Sodini, professeur émérite à l’Université
de Paris-I et Pagona Papadopoulou (Université de
Chypre) ont pris la parole
pour rappeler les travaux et
la carrière de Cécile Morrisson, son association avec
le Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, où elle
C écile M orrisson et entra en 1962 et qu’elle diG ilbert D agron rigea de 1997 à 2000, son
rôle dans de nombreux travaux collectifs, notamment avec Jean-Noël Barrandon et le
Centre Ernest-Babelon d’Orléans, et plus tard avec Angeliki
Laiou pour l’Economic History of Byzantium, ou pour l’édition
de deux des trois volumes de la Nouvelle Clio consacrés au
Monde byzantin, sa disponibilité pour ses collègues ou pour
les jeunes chercheurs.
Pagona Papadopoulou,
Université de Chypre
New Curator in Szeged (Hungary)
A new curator, Dr. Róbert Ujszászi, was appointed at the
Coin Collection of Móra Ferenc Museum in Szeged which is
the third large numismatic collection in Hungary. Dr. Ujszászi
has recently defended his dissertation on the copper coinage of Béla III, king of Hungary 1172-1196. Dr. Ádám Nagy,
the former curator retired in 2010.
Obituaries
Lore Börner (1928-2011)
Am 6. Mai 2011 ist Lore Börner, langjährige stellvertretende
Direktorin des Münzkabinetts der Staatlichen Museen zu
Berlin, in Berlin gestorben. Sie gehörte zu den Frauen der
ersten Stunde in der deutschen Numismatik nach 1945, war
die erste weibliche Wissenschaftlerin im Berliner Münzkabinett und eine prägende Gestalt in der Museumsnumismatik
Deutschlands.
Geboren am 3. November 1928 in Potsdam-Babelsberg,
studierte sie 1947-1952 in Greifswald und Berlin Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Geschichte. 1956 wurde sie von
Arthur Suhle in das Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen
geholt. Er überzeugte die anfangs durchaus zögerliche Kunsthistorikerin von der Numismatik als beruflicher Perspektive.
Waren zunächst nur die Medaillen und Siegel als Arbeitsgebiet vorgesehen, weiteten sich die Aufgaben bald auch auf
die Betreuung der mittelalterlich/neuzeitlichen Münzen aus.
Von 1971 bis zum Eintritt in den Ruhestand 1990 war sie
stellvertretende Direktorin des Münzkabinetts. Ihr ist es
maßgeblich zu verdanken, dass das Berliner Münzkabinett
bis zum Ende der DDR ein weltoffener Hort der Wissenschaft
und Künste blieb. Ihre menschliche Art wusste jeder Besucher zu schätzen, gleich ob er aus dem östlichen oder dem
westlichen Teil Deutschlands oder dem Ausland kam.
Die erfolgreiche Gestaltung des DDR-Museumsalltags, von
dessen oft banalen Schwierigkeiten man sich heute kaum
noch ein Bild machen kann, hat ihr viel abverlangt.
1958 war die 1945 in die Sowjetunion verbrachte Sammlung
des Münzkabinetts zwar ohne größere Verluste, aber in erheblicher Unordnung nach Berlin zurückgekehrt. Die entsagungsvolle und schwierige, fast 30 Jahre, von 1958 bis 1986,
dauernde Generalrevision der Sammlungsbestände hat sie
von Anfang bis Ende mitgemacht.
Ihre publizistische Tätigkeit galt vor allem der historischen
Medaille, vornehmlich der Renaissance und des Barock.
Lieber aber war ihr das stille Wirken im Hintergrund - es war
nicht ihre Art, sich und ihre Ansichten in den Vordergrund zu
stellen.
(Für das Schriftenverzeichnis und eine ausführlichere Würdigung Lore Börners vgl. Numismatisches Nachrichtenblatt
7/2011, S. 265-266).
Bernd Kluge,
Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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International Numismatic e-Newsletter (INeN) No 11,
October 2011
Electronic Newsletter of the INC / CIN
ISSN 1662-1220
Editors
Benedikt Zäch, Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt
Winterthur (Switzerland)
Sylviane Estiot, HISOMA UMR 5189-CNRS,
Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon (France) for the
International Numismatic Council INC / Conseil International
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