Contents International Numismatic 01 The President’s Note 02 Reports from institutions e-Newsletter 04 Congresses and Meetings 08 Research programs 08 Exhibitions 09 Websites 10 New publications INeN 18 - January 2015 17 Personalia 18 Obituaries 20 INC Annual Travel Grant 21 INeN contribute and suscribe

The President’s Note - Il saluto del Presidente

Dear INC members, dear colleagues and friends, On behalf of the INC I wish you that in these times of polarization on a multitude of issues all a happy and prosperous about cultural property, we can find common ground and New Year! It is an important collaborate to the benefit of . year for our Council and for the numismatic community The INC Committee will meet in Taormina in March to at large since it is the year make sure that everything will be ready to welcome you in of our XVth International September and make your participation as productive and Congress, which will take pleasant as possible. I also want to thank the Scientific place in Taormina, September and Organizing Committee for all their work: we are in 21-25, 2015. It is, as you a period of recession and economic instability and the know, the most important financing of this Congress is one of the most challenging event for the INC, and its the INC ever had to face. Governments can no longer organization, as well as the afford to be as generous as was in 2003 and offer Dr. Carmen Arnold-Biucchi publication of the Survey of a spectacular Palace of Congresses for free. Banks as Numismatic Research, are the well have less flexibility for funding cultural events. This major charges of our Committee. I hope many of you Congress has to be financed by all of us through the are planning to come and I look forward to seeing many registration fees and by whatever gifts we can get. We old friends and colleagues and to meet many new ones, are still looking for sponsors and will be grateful for your Sicily is one of the most spectacular and interesting help and support. islands of the Mediterranean full of history and touristic attractions set in a luxuriantly beautiful landscape. So The numismatic community has lost two of its after almost a week of numismatic work, you can enjoy outstanding members in the past months: Jean-Pierre and discover the countryside, not to mention the culinary Callu ( 1929 – Donville-les-Bains 2014) and Jan delights and wineries. You will find all information on Janus Krasnodębski (Natalin 1930-West http://www.xvcin.unime.it . 2013). You will find their obituaries below and we shall remember them with all our other colleagues at the I am pleased to report that everything is proceeding General Assembly in Taormina. according to schedule: the deadline for submitting abstracts was November 30 and we now have accepted You can read all other news since last July below. 400 papers and 50 posters, which the Organizing Committee will arrange into sessions by subjects. Please, Arrivederci a Taormina! remember to finalize your submission by registering by January 31 to confirm your participation. Grants Cari membri del CIN, cari colleghi e amici, applicants have until April 30 to register. In nome del CIN auguro a tutti voi un Felice e Fruttuoso The subeditors of the Survey have done an amazing work Anno Nuovo! È un anno importante per il nostro Consiglio of collecting and editing the different contributions and e per la comunità numismatica in generale poiché è the volume will go to the publisher by the end of the month l’anno del XVo Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica and will be available at the Congress in September. You che avrà luogo a Taormina del 21 al 25 settembre can subscribe to it on the registration form (price € 35 ). prossimi, Come sapete questo è l’avvenimento più The IAPN once again is assuming the costs of publication importante per il CIN e l’organizzazione del Congresso and I want to express my gratitude to all its members and congiunta alla pubblicazione del Survey of Numismatic in particular to its President Arne Kirsch. We can be proud Research costituiscono il compito maggiore del nostro

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 1 Comitato. Spero che molti di voi verranno a Taormina Reports from Institutions - Announcements e mi rallegro di rivedere tanti vecchi amici e colleghi e di incontrarne molti nuovi. La Sicilia è una delle isole più spettacolari del Mediterraneo con la sua storia e attrazioni turistiche situate in un paesaggio splendido. Staatliche Münzsammlung München Dopo quasi una settimana di studi numismatici potrete In 2014, continuing from 2013, the exhibition “Wettstreit prolungare il soggiorno e godervi le bellezze della natura in Erz. Porträtmedaillen der Deutschen ” unitamente a delizie gastronomiche e vini pregiati. was shown (through May, 4: see http://www.staatliche- Troverete tutte le informazioni necessarie su http://www. muenzsammlung.de/presse-031213.html). From , xvcin.unime.it . this exhibition went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum at . Sono lieta di potervi riferire che le preparazioni proseguono come previsto: la scadenza per l’invio On Feb. 7 and 8, 2014, the Institute of History of Art of the di proposte per presentare una comunicazione era Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in cooperation il 30 novembre 2014. Abbiamo ora accettato 400 with the Staatliche Münzsammlung held the colloquium comunicazioni e 50 posters che il Comitato Scientifico „Die andere Seite. Funktionen und Wissensformen der organizzerà in varie sessioni tematiche. Per confermare frühen Medaille“ on the subject of Renaissance . la vostra partecipazione dovete riempire il formulario in From May, 15 to October 5, 2014, the exhibition “100 rete e pagare la quota d’iscrizione entro il 31 gennaio Köpfe, gestaltet vom Bildhauer, Kupferstecher und (per i borsisti entro il 30 aprile). Medailleur Hubertus von Pilgrim” showed all the medals and other selected works of Prof. Hubertus von Pilgrim Il Survey è quasi pronto e andrà in stampa alla fine del (born 1931), see: http://www.staatliche-muenzsammlung. mese grazie all’ottimo e indefesso lavoro degli editori di de/presse-140514.html. From Oct. 9, 2014 to May 3, sezione che hanno scelto gli autori, sollecitato contributi 2015, the Staatliche Münzsammlung shows “Natur – e corretto i manoscritti entro i tempi fissati. Il volume Zufall Kunst. Die Natur im Medaillenwerk von Friedrich sarà in vendita in settembre al Congresso e può anche Brenner”, a selection of medals mainly referring to nature essere comandato sul formulario di registrazione (35 €). or having their origin or model in nature from the oeuvre of L’AIPN ha di nuovo generosamente offerto di assumersi Friedrich Brenner (born 1939), see http://www.staatliche- le spese di stampa per il Survey e tengo a esprimere a muenzsammlung.de/presse-071014.html. In May 2015 tutti i soci e in particolare al suo Presidente Arne Kirsch there will an exhibition on the “Antiquity on Bank Notes” la mia profonda riconoscenza, Possiamo congratularci and in autumn 2015 an exhibition on German and Austrian in questi tempi di antagonismo e posizioni estreme su medals of World War I. questioni di patrimonio culturale, di saper creare un terreno comune di collaborazione per il progresso della On the basis of several 13th century hoards from various numismatica in generale. parts of Bavaria, the Staatliche Münzsammlung together with the Vienna Cabinet runs a project of investigation Il Comitato del CIN terrà la sua riunione annuale a of High Medieval coinage from South , Tyrolia Taormina in marzo per accertarsi che tutto sarà pronto and , which will result in the publication of various in settembre per rendere la vostra partecipazione e articles and in an exhibition, which will be shown at soggiorno i più piacevoli possibili. Colgo l’occasione per Vienna, Bozen (Bolzano) and Munich. ringraziare il Comitato Scientifico e Organizzativo per il loro enorme lavoro. Siamo in un periodo di recessione Apart from other acquisitions, the Munich collection of e instabilità economica e il finanziamento di questo shares, and bonds was especially increased Congresso è probabilmente uno dei più impegnativi che il thanks to private donors. CIN in tutta la sua storia abbia dovuto affrontare: governi From Oct. 25 to Oct. 26, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für e stati non possono permettersi di mettere a disposizione Medaillenkunst (DGMK) held its annual meeting in the gratuitamente un Palazzo dei Congressi come quello Staatliche Münzsammlung, in cojunction with a market of di nel 2003. Anche le banche hanno possibilità medals by the artists. ridotte per sostenere organizzazioni culturali. Il Congresso di Taormina sarà finanziato da tutti noi in gran parte The collection of the HVB Stiftung tramite le quote d’iscrizione e i rari sussidi che possiamo Geldscheinsammlung with its ca. 300.000 and ottenere. Continuiamo a cercare sponsorizzatori e saremo other paper is one of the world’s largest collections grati per qualsiasi aiuto. of this kind. Given as a permanent loan to the Staatliche Münzsammlung by the statutes of the foundation already La comunità numismatica nei mesi passati ha perso in 2003, it had not been possible up to now to find due insigni personalità: Jean-Pierre Callu (Parigi 1929 adequate rooms for this collection close to the Staatliche – Donville-les-Bains 2014) e Jan Janus Krasnodębski Münzsammlung. To show the close connection between (Natalin 1930-West London 2013). Potete leggere le loro the two collections, in conjunction with the exhibition on necrologie qui sotto. Renaissance medals, an exhibition on representations of motives relating to the Renaissance on banknotes was Questa INeN 18 vi porta tutte le altre novità importanti dal organized, from the of this banknote collection, as luglio scorso. the 2015 exhibition on Antiquity on banknotes will draw from pieces of the HVB Stiftung’s collection. Arrivederci a Taormina! Dietrich Klose, Leitender Sammlungsdirektor, Staatliche Münzsammlung München

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 2 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 3 Department of and Medals at the British on the Museum’s global collection relaying the story of Museum money over the past 4,500 years. It offers students the opportunity to visit the museum in to interact with the Citi Money Gallery itself, including handling objects 360° interactive Citi Money Gallery video from the collection. Onsite sessions begin with general A new 360° degree interactive tour of the Citi Money financial education activities, at both the personal and Gallery is now available on the website. national level, and object handling. Schools can then The video, which takes the viewer on a tour of over 4500 select a subject for the afternoon through which to deliver years of monetary history, uses the latest immersive financial education; mathematics, business studies, art, technology to offer a multi-layered interactive experience. drama, economics, geography, English and history as Including links to a wealth of extra content, the video is a well as a cross curricular option. great introduction to the Citi Money Gallery which opened in 2012. For more information visit http://www.britishmuseum.org/ explore/galleries/themes/room_68_money/education_ http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/themes/ programme.aspx room_68_money/interactive_tour.aspx Ben Alsop Citi Money Gallery Curator The Department of Coins and Medals The British Museum

Harvard Art Museums The Harvard Art Museums (Fogg Museum, Busch- Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum) reopened on November 16th after a six-year renovation by architect Renzo Piano: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/ The coin collection (see CR 56, 2009, pp. 23-27 and http:// www.harvardartmuseums.org/ searching by coins) is featured in different display cases in the galleries of ancient art that emphazise the importance of coins as works of art and their close relation to sculpture, vase painting and mythology.

Carmen Arnold-Biucchi Citi Money Gallery Education Programme Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art The British Museum has developed a unique programme [email protected] to assist secondary school teachers in delivering the Harvard Art Museums new financial education requirements as part of the 32 Quincy Street, , MA 02138 revised national curriculum. The newly developed Citi Money Gallery secondary education programme delivers financial education in a historical context through American Numismatic Society, New York 61th objects in the collection, emphasising the development Annual Eric P. Newman Graduate Summer of money in society, various cultural relationships with money and the role money has played in the creation Seminar in Numismatics and destruction of entities. The sessions and resources have been developed by the British Museum, with the June 8 through July 31, 2015 support of Citi, for use with schools from September For over half a century, The American Numismatic Society, 2014. The programme comprises onsite functional a scholarly organization and museum of coins, money, and sessions, enrichment days and online material, drawing economic history, has offered select graduate students and junior faculty the opportunity to work hands-on with its preeminent numismatic collections. With over three- quarters of a million objects, the collection is particularly strong in Greek, Roman, Islamic, Far Eastern, and US and Colonial coinages, as well as Medallic Art. Located in New York City’s SoHo district, the Society also houses the world’s most complete numismatic library.

The rigorous eight-week course, taught by ANS staff, guest lecturers, and a Visiting Scholar, introduces students to the methods, theories, and history of the discipline. In addition to the lecture program, students will select a numismatic research topic and, utilizing ANS resources, complete a paper or digital project while in residence. The Seminar is intended to provide students of History, Art History, Textual Studies, and Archeology who have little or no numismatic background with a working knowledge of a body of evidence that is often overlooked and poorly

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 2 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 3 understood. Successful applicants are typically doctoral Mittelalters und der Neuzeit“ wendet sich insbesondere candidates or junior faculty in a related discipline, but an Studierende historischer Fächer. masters candidates are admitted as well. Das Erweiterungscurriculum „Numismatische This year’s Visiting Scholar will be Prof. Dr. Aleksander Praxis und Vertiefung“ wendet sich an Studierende, Bursche of the Archaeology Institute of the University of die bereits ein epochenbezogenes numismatisches Warsaw. Prof. Bursche is a specialist of the relationships Erweiterungscurriculum begonnen haben und ihre between Greeks, Romans and ‘Barbarians’, with praktischen Kompetenzen vertiefen wollen. a particular emphasis on monetary and economic interactions. Master Applications are due no later than February 13, 2015. A An der Universität Wien wurde ein Individuelles limited number of stipends of up to $4000 are available Masterstudium „Numismatik und Geldgeschichte“ to US citizens, and non-US citizens studying at US eingerichtet. institutions under certain visas. For application forms and further information, please see the Summer Seminar Die Zulassung zum Individuellen Masterstudium page of our website: numismatics.org/Seminar/Seminar, „Numismatik und Geldgeschichte“ setzt den Abschluss or contact the Seminar Director, Dr. Peter van Alfen eines fachlich in Frage kommenden Bachelorstudiums ([email protected]; 212-571-4470, x153). oder eines anderen gleichwertigen Studiums voraus. Erwünscht ist außerdem der Nachweis numismatischer Vorkenntnisse, der bei Wiener Absolventen insbesondere Nachrichten aus dem Institut für Numismatik durch die Absolvierung der numismatischen und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien Erweiterungscurricula erbracht wird, aber auch andere Form haben kann, wie z. B. den Besuch numismatischer Lehrveranstaltungen an der Heimatuniversität oder Sommerseminar am Institut für Numismatik und eine (frühere) berufliche Tätigkeit im numismatischen Geldgeschichte Bereich. Vom 10. bis zum 21. August 2015 findet am Institut wieder das traditionelle Numismatische Sommerseminar statt, Die Lehrveranstaltungen finden - sofern nichts anderes nachdem es ausnahmsweise im Sommer 2014 ausfiel. Im angegeben ist - im Hörsaal des Instituts statt und Sommerseminar 2015 stehen laufende Forschungen und beginnen ab Dienstag, 3. März 2015. Dissertationen junger Wissenschaftler im Zentrum. Mehr Informationen werden demnächst auf der Homepage des Im Rahmen der am Institut eingeführten Vorbesprechung Instituts (http://numismatik.univie.ac.at) zu finden sein. werden Ihnen die Erwei- terungscurricula, die weiteren Studienmöglichkeiten und die aktuellen Vorträge Lehrveranstaltungen vorgestellt:Mehr Informationen über das Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte finden (jeweils im Hörsaal des Institut für Numismatik und Sie auf der Homepage (http://numismatik.univie.ac.at) Geldgeschichte, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Wien – und im aktuellen Mitteilungsblatt 49 (Wintersemester Hochparterre links) 2014-15; nächste Ausgabe Nr. 50, 3. März 2015). Prof. Dr. Dieter Salzmann (Universität Münster): Schilde, Helme, Füße. Das feine Spiel mit den Details auf den Bildern griechischer und römischer Münzen Mittwoch, 7. Congresses and Meetings Jänner 2014, 17.15 Uhr Johannes Hartner B.A. und ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hubert Emmerig (Universität Wien): Burgen, Engel und Kentauren. Ein neuer Münzschatzfund der 1. Hälfte des Reisestipendien zur Teilnahme am 15. 12. Jahrhunderts aus Niederösterreich Dienstag, 13. Internationalen Numismatischen Kongress in Jänner 2015, 18.15 Uhr Mag. Leonhard Stopfer (Wien): Die Kroisbacher – Taormina (September 2015) außergewöhnliche keltische Münzen aus dem Burgenland Die Universität Messina richtet vom 21.-25. September Dienstag, 20. Jänner 2015, 18.15 Uhr Im Anschluss lädt das Institut auf ein Glas Wein ein. Die 2015 in Taormina den 15. Internationalen Numismatischen Vorträge sind allesamt öffentlich. Kongress aus (vgl. http://www.xvcin.unime.it). Diese wichtigste numismatische Tagung mit weltweiter Lehrangebot im Sommersemester 2015 Erwei- Ausrichtung findet alle sechs Jahre statt. terungscurricula für Bachelor-Studierende Das Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte hat drei Die großzügige Unterstützung der Münze Österreich Erweiterungscurricula im Umfang von jeweils 15 ECTS- AG ermöglicht es dem Institut für Numismatik Punkten entwickelt. Sie ermöglichen im Bachelorstudium und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien, vier den Erwerb von Grundkenntnissen der Numismatik und Reisestipendien für die Teilnahme an dieser Tagung zu Geldgeschichte. vergeben. Dieses Angebot richtet sich an österreichische oder in Österreich ansässige Studierende und Das Erweiterungscurriculum „Numismatik des NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, welche in der Altertums“ wendet sich insbesondere an Studierende Numismatik oder in einem ihrer Nachbarfächer tätig sind. altertumskundlicher Fächer. Dabei wendet es sich insbesondere an Personen, die für die Teilnahme an dem Kongress auf Unterstützung Das Erweiterungscurriculum „Numismatik des angewiesen sind.

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 4 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 5 Das Stipendium beträgt 600 € pro Person. Die 4. I contributi verranno assegnati da un’apposita StipendiatInnen verpflichten sich, an dem Kongress in commissione, il cui giudizio – inappellabile e insindacabile Taormina in seiner vollen Länge teilzunehmen. Nach dem – è formulato tenendo conto del curriculum e dei titoli Kongress müssen sie einen schriftlichen Bericht von ca. posseduti. 3 Seiten über ihre Teilnahme vorlegen. 5. I beneficiari devono fare pervenire la propria Bewerbungen können formlos erfolgen. Sie sollen accettazione entro otto giorni dal ricevimento della Angaben über die bisherige Ausbildung, einen Lebenslauf comunicazione dell’avvenuta assegnazione, a pena di und einen Nachweis über die numismatischen Interessen perdita del diritto del contributo, bzw. Aktivitätenenthalten. Wir bitten außerdem um 6. I contributi vengono assegnati nel corso del einen kurzen Text zu der Frage, was Sie sich von dem Convegno al quale il beneficiario é tenuto a partecipare Kongressbesuch erwarten und erhoffen. obbligatoriamente per tutta la sua durata.

Über die Vergabe der Stipenden entscheidet ein Milano, 12 novembre 2014 Gremium, das sich aus je einer/m NumismatikerIn der Il Presidente Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, des Dott. Ing. E. Winsemann Flaghera Kunsthistorischen Museums und der Universität Wien zusammensetzt. Les trouvailles de monnaies de bronze romaines en contexte médiéval Bitte richten Sie Ihre Bewerbungen bis zum 31. Jänner 2015 an die Institutsadresse (siehe oben). 27 et 28 février. Paris. École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica, Sorbonne : Escalier E 1er étage, salle Gaston Taormina Programme prévisionnel Vendredi 27 février 2015 Bando di concorso a contributi di studio. Società Numismatica Italiana ONLUS, 13 h 30 Accueil via Orti 3, 20122 Milano Trouvailles de monnaies antiques en contexte médiéval In occasione del Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica, che si svolgerà a Taormina dal 21 al 15 Marc Bompaire, Thibault Cardon : la position du settembre 2015, la Società Numismatica Onlus bandisce problème en 2 concorsi a 2 contributi di studio ciascuno: Flavia Marani : la position du problème en Italie

-uno dell’importo di 1.000 € cadauno, da assegnarsi a 2 Quelle circulation : monétaire, résiduelle, «funéraire» ? giovani italiani interessati a prendere parte all’evento; Alessia Rovelli : Les limites de la circulation des bronzes antiques en Italie -uno dell’importo di 1.000 € cadauno, da assegnarsi a Benjamin Leroy, Gildas Salaün : Un cas de production 2 giovani stranieri interessati a prendere parte all’evento. tardive d’imitations de monnaies romaines 1. Detti contributi sono riservati a studenti o laureati che Jean-Marc Doyen : L’approvisionnement en bronzes au al momento della scadenza non abbiano superato i 27 nord des Alpes aux Ve-VIe s. anni. Ludovic Trommelschläger Un cas de résidualité au Ve s. 2. Le domande compilate in italiano o in inglese Serena Sozzi : Trouvailles funéraires en Aquitaine et en devono pervenire alla Società Numismatica Onlus in Poitou au Moyen Âge forma cartacea entro il 28 febbraio 2015 con lettera Codine : Monnaies et usages non monétaires raccomandata (farà fede il timbro postale), corredate dei en Gaule mérovingienne seguenti documenti in carta libera: Samedi 28 février 2015 titolo di studio o attestato universitario, con l’indicazione degli esami sostenuti; 9 h : Accueil attestato di uno o più docenti universitari o studiosi Circulation des bronzes comprovante le capacità del candidato e l’interesse a Ruth Pliego Vazquez : Espagne wisigothique prendere parte al convegno; Andrea Saccocci : La circulation de la monnaie de bronze curriculum degli studi ed eventuali pubblicazioni (in forma Romaine tardive et Byzantine en Italie Septentrionale: cartacea o contenute in CD allegati); pas seulement une question archéologique certificato di nascita. Sam Moorhead : Monnaies romaines et byzantines en Grande-Bretagne Trouvailles et contextes 3. Inoltre, nella domanda deve essere indicato quanto Joël Françoise : Monnaies de bronze tardives, vandales segue: et byzantines en Provence la data e il luogo di nascita, la residenza, il numero telefonico, l’indirizzo e-mail; 12 h - 14 h déjeuner Enquêtes régionales, Études de cas l’indirizzo, anche email, cui si desidera vengano fatte pervenire le comunicazioni relative al bando, qualora sia Jean-Marc Doyen : Belgique et France du Nord diverso dalla residenza. Vincent Geneviève : Aquitaine et Midi-Pyrénées

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 4 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 5 Thibault Cardon : Champagne The conference will consist of two parts: First there will Jens-Christian Moesgaard : Haute-Normandie be a workshop entitled ‘The ancient coins of Thrace – the numismatic web portal www.corpus-nummorum.eu’. This David Billoin : sites perchés du Jura workshop will present our web portal as a useful research Marc Bompaire : Picardie (Boves) tool for Thracian coinage and will show how using the 16 h 30 database allows an all-encompassing diachronic and synchronic comparison of Thracian coin types. The portal Table ronde : discutants Cécile Morrisson, Olivier Bruand, is to be seen in a broader international context in order to Laurent Feller establish an online typology of Greek coinage (see INeN École pratique des Hautes Études 17, July 2014, p. 13–15 The New Landscape of Ancient Équipe de recherche Savoirs et pratiques de l›antiquité au Moyen Âge Numismatics and www.greekcoinage.org). CEN de Bruxelles The second part of the colloquium will concentrate on a historical-numismatic question: Is it possible to trace Moneda i fiscalitat a la Catalunya medieval in the various and, at the first glance, quite different local Thracian coinages a specific Thracian identity? XXV Seminari d’Història Medieval de la Corona d’Aragó This question requires above all a discussion regarding Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya / Museu Nacional the regional forms that developed within this Greek d’Art de Catalunya phenomenon of minting and monetized economy. Can indigenous traditions be found beneath the Greek and , 24 y 26 de marzo de 2015 Roman iconography? El Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya está preparando el XXV Seminari d’Història Medieval de la Corona d’Aragó que, en esta edición, se centrará en una aproximación a la dimensión fiscal de la moneda en el territorio del Principado de Catalunya a lo largo de la edad media tanto a través de la evidencia material numismática como de los datos aportados por las ricas series documentales catalanas.

Coordinación científica: Dr. Albert Estrada-Rius [email protected] The same question is raised concerning the political and Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya economic use of coinage. Here the main focus concerns Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya to what extent the coinages of the 44 known Thracian Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc mints reflect or propagate local, regional or collective 08038 Barcelona Thracian identities. A diachronic view is in this case particularly important. How can social, economic and Thrace – local coinage and regional identity: administrative changes cause transformations of local Numismatic research in the digital age constructs of identity? In what ways is coinage used as an instrument of authority in Thrace? In addition internal structures – geographical, ethnic or political – should th th , April 15 to 17 , 2015 be, wherever feasible from the coinage, examined: Is it The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and possible to subdivide the greater area of Thrace on the Humanities and the Berlin Coin Cabinet would like to basis of the designs of its coinage and the practiced inform you about a numismatic conference in Berlin from monetized economy? Which elements during which April 15th to April 17th, 2015. periods were responsible for creating identity? What roles did myths, historical events and buildings play? Do meaningful themes exist for the construction of Thracian identity which also cover longer periods of time and are consistently mirrored in coin types? There will be more than 40 presentations (papers and posters) from experts all over the world – for the detailed program see the news on our website www.corpus- nummorum.eu. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Berlin in April!

Ulrike Peter and Bernhard Weisser The coin issues from the historical territory of Thrace are known for their great diversity: ranging from the early An international congress on the history of Thraco-Macedonian tribes to the end of minting in the 3rd century AD. In 2013 we started a research project on numismatics in Vienna these various coinages and we would like to introduce the first results – a web portal of Thracian coins –and Ars critica numaria. Joseph Eckhel (1737‒1798) and to discuss the current state of numismatic research on the development of numismatic method. Thrace as well as to examine the opportunities offered In the framework of the recently launched international by a collaborative collection and classification of coins in initiative “Fontes Inediti Numismaticae Antiquae” (FINA), the digital age. the hitherto unpublished scholarly correspondence of the “Father of Numismatics” has been studied at the

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 6 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 7 Austrian Academy of This new and exciting group of sources for a crucial period Sciences since the in the history of numismatics calls for a reassessment beginning of 2013, in of the importance of Eckhel for the development of the project “Joseph numismatic method, as well as for a contextualisation of Eckhel (1737‒1798) Eckhel’s work within Enlightenment research in general. and his Numismatic Hence, an international congress on the topic will be Network”, funded by held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from 27 to 30 the Austrian Science May 2015. Fund (FWF): see the report by Bernhard The keynote of the event will be delivered by Hans Woytek (project Erich Bödeker (University of Göttingen) on: “Zwischen leader) and Daniela Gelehrsamkeit und Forschung. Umprägungen Williams (project aufklärerischer Wissenschaftlichkeit.” From 28‒30 May, associate) in INeN 14 sessions of the congress will take place at the Austrian (February 2013), p. 8. Academy of Sciences and at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. About 20 papers on various aspects of The core of the Eckhel’s work will be given by historians, documents studied and experts in the history of numismatic research from in this project is Europe and the . The proceedings of the represented by 162 event, which is sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund Portrait of Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, (FWF), will be published in Vienna. from A. Steinbüchel, Addenda ad Eckhelii scholarly letters Doctrinam numorum veterum, Vienna 1826. addressed to Eckhel More information on the congress will be available from by 37 correspondents early February 2015 at: www.oeaw.ac.at/eckhel2015 residing in Europe and the Levant. The correspondents include famous classicists and numismatists like Jean- If you plan to attend, or if you have questions on any Jacques Barthélemy, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Gaetano aspect of the event, please contact us: Marini or Georg Zoëga as well as coin collectors like Pieter van Damme and Michele Vargas Macciucca. Surprisingly, Bernhard Woytek ([email protected]) these letters had never been looked at in depth before. Daniela Williams ([email protected]) Apart from one letter, they are presently bound in a single Austrian Academy of Sciences volume, kept in the archives of the coin cabinet of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. They are written Division Documenta Antiqua Postgasse 7/1/1 in five different languages (French, Italian, Latin, German 1010 Vienna and Dutch) and span the period from 1772 to 1797. In Austria addition to the letters kept in Vienna, 74 letters written by Eckhel to his correspondents have been located to date by the project team in foreign archives and various La ricerca numismatica in Italia e la rivista publications; this material allows us to integrate and “Annali” sometimes complete Eckhel’s exchange with some of his correspondents. It provides information on relations with people not represented in the Vienna archive, and most luglio 2015 of all it preserves Eckhel’s own “voice”, passing on his In occasione della pubblicazione del n. 60 degli “Annali” personal thoughts and remarks on several scientific and dell’Istituto Italiano di Numismatica nel luglio 2015 si methodological matters. svolgerà un incontro su: “La ricerca numismatica in Italia e la rivista “Annali”.

L’incremento delle attività di indagine nei siti archeologici, l’affinamento della tecnica dello scavo archeologico, lo sviluppo delle conoscenze tecnico-scientifiche sui metalli e sulle lavorazioni, l’aumento della documentazione materiale disponibile, hanno stimolato e favorito la ricerca numismatica, che ha suggerito nuove letture, accompagnando, dal versante numismatico, le nuove correnti storiografiche. Istituto Italiano di Numismatica Palazzo Barberini – Via Quattro Fontane, 13 00184 Roma [email protected] Main building of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, housing the Academy since 1857. The building, opened to the public in 1756, was originally the “Neue Aula” of the University of Vienna. Here Eckhel, as a professor of classics of the university, used to teach his classes.

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 6 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 7 Research programs - Work in progress Con l’intento di proseguire nella valorizzazione e nella divulgazione di questo importante patrimonio, di recente si è proceduto alla predisposizione di un progetto finalizzato allo studio e alla pubblicazione delle monete La collezione numismatica del Museo romane di epoca repubblicana e imperiale appartenenti Nazionale di Ravenna: i materiali di epoca alla collezione ravennate. romana repubblicana Attualmente è stato condotto a termine l’esame del Il Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, istituito nel 1885 e nucleo di epoca romana repubblicana, che costituisce collocato nella prestigiosa sede dell’ex monastero una documentazione assai consistente sia per la quantità, benedettino di San Vitale fin dal 1913-1914, conserva contando complessivamente 901 esemplari in argento e un consistente patrimonio artistico ed archeologico, che in bronzo, che per l’arco cronologico coperto, esteso tra trae le sue origini dalle eterogenee raccolte di antiquaria, il primo venticinquennio del III secolo a.C. e il 32-31 a.C. tipiche del collezionismo di matrice illuminista, formate, nel corso del Settecento, dai monaci camaldolesi di Per tutti gli esemplari, nella quasi totalità già oggetto Classe, poi arricchitesi nel tempo attraverso donazioni, di schedatura ministeriale nel corso degli anni Settanta acquisti e ritrovamenti. e Ottanta del secolo scorso – a cui si sono aggiunti in questa fase piccoli nuclei finora non catalogati –, si è proceduto all’acquisizione delle immagini digitali e ad una nuova catalogazione.

L’analisi puntuale degli esemplari è stata affiancata dalla ricerca d’archivio, che ha consentito di mettere in luce i diversi passaggi e le trasformazioni subite nel tempo dalla raccolta numismatica e specificamente da questo nucleo, con particolare attenzione, da un lato, alla documentazione proveniente dal territorio e, dall’altro, alla matrice collezionistica dell’intera raccolta.

I materiali di epoca romana repubblicana appartenenti alla collezione numismatica del Museo Nazionale di Ravenna sono attualmente in corso di pubblicazione presso l’Editore Quasar di Roma, in un volume di prossima uscita orelli Serie anonima Giano/Prua (aes grave), Roma, 225-217 a.C., Asse. MNaRa, inv. 268. nell’ambito della serie “Tesori per la Storia”: A.L. M , Monete di età romana repubblicana nel Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, Edizioni Quasar, Roma, ISBN 978-88-7140- Tra queste raccolte spicca, per qualità e quantità degli 598-8. esemplari, quella numismatica, la cui fisionomia attuale appare come l’esito delle vicende complessive di Per maggiori informazioni: formazione e sviluppo delle istituzioni culturali cittadine. Anna Lina Morelli – [email protected] Edizioni Quasar – [email protected] A partire dagli anni Settanta del secolo scorso, la collezione numismatica del Museo Nazionale è stata Anna Lina Morelli Università di Bologna oggetto di ricognizioni e riordini, che hanno portato allo studio, alla divulgazione scientifica e all’esposizione di vari nuclei di materiali. Grazie alla proficua collaborazione Exhibitions instauratasi tra il Museo Nazionale di Ravenna e la Cattedra di Numismatica dell’Università di Bologna, sono state realizzate pubblicazioni scientifiche relative ai nuclei tardoimperiale, barbarico e bizantino, al nucleo medievale Connecting continents: Indian Ocean trade and e ad una piccola sezione di medaglie, affiancate da exchange approfondimenti sulla documentazione proveniente dal territorio e da analisi di tematiche specifiche. The British Museum 27 November 2014 – 31 May 2015 This small display features objects showing the long and complex history of Indian Ocean trade and exchange, from ancient times to the present.

For thousands of years, the Indian Ocean has been a space through which people, objects and ideas have circulated. The navigable monsoon winds enabled merchants to travel between Africa, the Middle East and Asia, exchanging valuable commodities such as textiles, spices and ceramics. From early coastal trade between the great ancient civilisations of the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia through to the heyday of European East Companies and to the present, the Indian Ocean Serie anonima, Roma, post 211 a.C., Denario. MNaRa, inv. 347. has remained a dynamic economic maritime zone.

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 8 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 9 Websites

New Blog: Religion and Money The project ‘Religion and Money: Economy of salvation in the Middle Ages’ is a project based on interdisciplinary and international cooperation using the evidence of coin finds from medieval and early modern churches and historical and literary sources form the basis for a study of the phenomenon Economy of Salvation. Linking documentary evidence with material culture in new and innovative ways lies at the root of this project.

Model boat made of threaded cloves. Probably from , 18th–20th century. BM As1972,Q.1944

The display presents objects from across different sections of the British Museum’s collection, including a 19th- century boat from Indonesia, created entirely from cloves and a Roman necklace made from sapphires and garnets, to tell this long and fascinating history of global interaction.

Exposición temporal Historias metálicas. Arte y poder en la medalla europea Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya / Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Barcelona, 17 de octubre de 2014 a septiembre 2015

El Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya inauguró el pasado 16 de octubre la exposición temporal “Historias metálicas. Arte y poder en la medalla europea” que estará abierta al público hasta el mes de septiembre del The project is funded by the Norwegian Research 2015. La muestra ocupa la sala temporal de numismática Council and the project members come from , y el hall de la biblioteca del Museu Nacional d’Art de , Norway and , with outreach Catalunya en su sede del Palau Nacional, en Barcelona. and cooperations with scholars from a number of other La exposición, que contó en su inauguración con la countries. presencia del cuerpo consular acreditado en la ciudad condal, plantea un tour por la medalla conmemorativa http://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/ europea desde su formación y características hasta el religion-and-money/religion-and-money-blog/ desarrollo artístico, político y patrimonial de las llamadas historias metálicas acuñadas e impresas en los principales centros culturales europeos. RPC volume IX is online

Comisariado: Dr. Albert Estrada-Rius Volume IX of Roman Provincial Coinage is now published [email protected] online on the RPC website: http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya This volume covers the reigns of Decius and his Palau Nacional, Parc de Montjuïc family, Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian, and of Aemilian 08038 Barcelona and Uranius Antoninus, i.e. from AD 249 to 254.

Vista de la sala de exposiciones numismáticas temporales del Gabinet Numismàtic de RPC IX, no. 1141 (Side) Catalunya en el Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 8 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 9 monumental: a catalogue of 7,115 coin types, recording 41,996 coins (of which 6,394 have images).

Finally, Pere Pau Ripollès is working on a consolidated version of the three RPC supplements, which should be ready for the International Congress in September.

2015 promises to be an exciting year for the Roman Provincial Coinage project!

Jerome Mairat Co-director of RPC online, http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk Ashmolean Museum, University of

New Publications

Map view for “Roma”: Cities depicting Roma on coinage (data RPC IV & IX) General http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/quick/?search&format=map&q=Roma Howard M. BERLIN, The Numismatourist: The Only Worldwide Travel Guide to Museums, Mints, and Other Places of Interest for the , Zyrus Press, 410 The work was commenced by Eduardo Levante, but his pp. with index. ISBN-10: 1933990295; ISBN-13: 978- death left an unfinished manuscript. The volume was 1933990293. eventually taken over and has been completed by Antony Hostein (Paris) & Jerome Mairat (Oxford). The Numismatourist is the first book of its kind, intended to be a worldwide travel guide for the numismatist – Your feedback and contributions will help to improve both professional and hobbyist. The content is a reference the online version and the paper version, which should be catalog of numismatic collections of exhibits in museums, published in about a year. banks, and mints worldwide open to the general public. What better way to educate the public about a country’s monetary heritage than that of showcasing its numismatic A few figures: 2,311 coin types, recording 12,331 coins, treasures in an exhibition in a museum, the nation’s central of which 7,447 have online images. From Viminacium bank, or a ? in the West to Rhesaena in Mesopotamia in the East, Witten by an winning numismatic author, collector provincial coinage in this period was issued by no fewer and exhibitor, the book lists over 160 venues in 75 countries. than 119 cities. Most issues are from Asia Minor, although With almost 100 venues in full detail, the book covers a the most productive mints of this volume were elsewhere: wide variety of venues, ranging from well-known, premier Viminacium, Antioch in Syria, Caesarea Maritima and public and private institutions, like London’s venerable Alexandria in Egypt. The coins produced by the client British Museum, to those concentrating on of their kingdom of Bosporus is covered for the years 249-254. own country or city, The coinage of Uranius Antoninus, produced at like the Banknote Emesa with Latin inscriptions, is also included, alongside Museum of Ionian Bank the tetradrachms and the bronze coins in his name. at Corfu. There are even those that cater to the unusual, like The launch of the new online volume provided the those that showcase opportunity to improve the existing website of the project. only counterfeits and a museum for wooden First, the underlying database and the core of the website nickels. have been entirely rewritten in order to make the website Information about each multi-volume – a difficult but necessary step for the future institution is that which of the project. is useful for the visitor. Supplemented by more Secondly, RPC volume IV (from Antoninus Pius to than 300 full-color Commodus) now offers a considerable number of new pictures and maps, images, making it easier to search and more complete. each of the almost 100 fully detailed entries Thirdly, an important new facility allows the mapping of generally includes research results. One example: where does Roma occur pictures of the street on provincial coinage? Search for ‘Roma’ then choose view of the building, scene of the gallery ‘Map view’ (see figure). The maps are zoomable and allow displays, and one or more of the numismatic highlights. a better understanding of the geography and the patterns In addition to museum background information, there is of the coinage. The potential of instant visualizations of included information for the street address, telephone search results for research and teaching is enormous. numbers, e-mail contact address, the English version of the official website (if there is one) or an alternate but unofficial Volume III (Nerva - Hadrian) by Michel Amandry and website, hours of operation, days/holidays closed, and Andrew Burnett will be published later this year, both nearby public transportation stops (for metro/subway, bus, online and on paper. This long awaited volume will be tram). Icons represent information if the venue is wheelchair/

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 10 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 11 handicap accessible, permits cell phone use, permits J.-M. CARRIÉ, Connaître les usages de la monnaie romaine photography/video recording, charges an admission fee, : un objectif hors de notre portée ? has multi-language audio guides, a library, a cafeteria or food court, and a souvenir gift shop. N. FURRER, Das Objekt Münze zwischen Sache und Sprache : Überlegungen eines Wirt- schaftshistorikers. Hoards, sites and stray finds M. BLET-LEMARQUAND – B. GRATUZE – J.-N. BARRANDON†, L’analyse élémentaire des monnaies: Rosa Vitale, Pompei. Rinvenimenti monetali nella Regio adéquation entre les problématiques envisagées, les alliages VII, Roma: Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, “Studi e étudiés et les méthodes utilisées. Materiali” 18, 2015, 380 p. N. KLÜSSENDORF – S. BECKER, Notgroschen und sagenhafte Schätze. Fundnumismatik und Volkskunde. Rientra nel programma di ricerca sulla circolazione R. HAMMEL-KIESOW, Möglichkeiten der musealen monetale a Pompei la edizione integrale e sistematica dei Präsentation der Wirtschaftsgeschichte anhand von rinvenimenti effettuati negli scavi condotti dal 1700 ad oggi Fundmünzen : Das Beispiel des Lübecker Münzschatzes. nell’area della città. M. SCHLAPKE, Das « Bodensee-Projekt » zur Verknüpfung Dopo i primi tre volumi, dedicati rispettivamente alle von Münzfunderfassungen. Regiones IX (M. Taliercio Mensitieri), VI (R. Cantilena) e I (T. Giove), esce ora il volume relativo ai rinvenimenti dalla Regio VII. Ancient Numismatics Susanna SILBERSTEIN TREVISANI CECCHERINI, La Harald DERSCHKA, Suzanne FREY-KUPPER, monetazione di Reggio magnogreca dal IV sec. a.C. alla Reiner CUNZ (Hrsg.), Selbstwahrnehmung und chiusura della zecca. Postfazione di Ermanno A. Arslan, Fremdwahrnehmung in der Fundmünzenbearbeitung Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2014. ISBN 978-88-492-2885-4. Bilanz und Perspektiven am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, Untersuchungen zu Numismatik und Geldgechichte 7, Il volume costituisce una sintesi della produzione monetale 2014, 216 pp., 4 pl. ISBN: 978-2-940351-18-3 di Rhegion, limitatamente a quella emessa fra il IV e il I sec. a.C., e ne illustra i vari aspetti – da quello cronologico, Das internationale Kolloquium zum Stand und den metrologico e tipologico-iconografico a quello relativo alla Perspektiven der Fundmünzenbearbeitung in Europa sua ampia diffusione – effettuandone anche utili confronti wurde von der Schweizerischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für con altre monetazioni coeve, soprattutto della Magna Grecia Fundmünzen (SAF) und der Numismatischen Kommission e della Sicilia. Queste emissioni si concentrano nei due der Länder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (NK) secoli che intercorrono dall’anno 356 a.C., in cui Dionigi II gemeinsam vorbereitet. si stabilisce nella polis, fino al momento della chiusura della Die Leiter verschiedener zecca, evento che viene europäischer qui datato intorno alla metà Fundmünzenprojekte und del II sec. a.C. Un periodo weitere mit der Auswertung dunque che abbraccia von Fund- münzen befasste momenti decisivi della Wissenschaftler tauschten storia di Rhegion, dalla ihre Erfahrungen, Pläne und sua alleanza con Roma Zukunftsvisionen aus. Vertreter (282 a.C.) e l’acquisizione der Nachbardisziplinen dello status di civitas referierten, welche Erkenntnisse foederata (270 a.C.), sie aus den numismatischen fino al coinvolgimento Fragestellungen und nelle due prime guerre Arbeitsergebnissen gewinnen puniche (264-241 a.C. und welche Erwartungen sie an e 218-202 a.C.), che die Fundnumismatik stellen. segnano l’inizio del suo Nachdem im ersten Band passaggio da un ambito (UNG 6) die Daten von 38 culturale prevalentemente Fundmünzenprojekten in greco a uno, in cui la Europa und die in Konstanz scelta della polis si entdeckten Münzen vorgestellt sposta progressivamente wurden, bietet der vorliegende verso il mondo romano, zweite nebst einer Einführung pur mantenendo i tratti die Zusammenfassung der Podiumsdiskussion und die auf fondamentali delle der Tagung gehaltenen Vorträge. proprie radici. L’esame di oltre 4000 monete, emesse dalla Einführung zecca reggina durante questo arco temporale, permette di individuare 44 serie, che vengono ripartite in otto Periodi. Ne S. FREY-KUPPER, Zum 20-jährigen Bestehen der SAF : Vom risulta un quadro di riferimento per le singole serie monetali, SFI zum IFS und mehr. per ciascuna delle quali, oltre a un suo inquadramento Selbstwahrnehmung : Runder Tisch und Plenardiskussionen storico, viene effettuata una dettagliata descrizione B. ZÄCH, Konzepte und Ziele der Fundmünzenbearbeitung analitica, con l’intento di fornire a studiosi e ad archeologi und -auswertung in Europa. uno strumento interpretativo di questa monetazione. A tale proposito vengono anche indicate le diverse posizioni Fremdwahrnehmung sostenute da vari autori sui singoli problemi, dando cosí una J. VAN HEESCH, Coin finds and the monetary history of the puntuale bibliografia relativa agli argomenti trattati. Il testo è Roman Empire. concepito come opera di consultazione e di approfondimento A. DE PURY-GYSEL, Die Bedeutung der scientifico, ma può anche essere letto – grazie alla chiara Fundmünzenbearbeitung für die Archäologie der römischen articolazione con cui si susseguono le varie tematiche – da Provinzen : Das Beispiel von Avenches (Aventicum). quanti desiderino avvicinarsi ai problemi e ai metodi della numismatica classica, esaminandone da vicino un concreto

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 10 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 11 modello di monetazione, storicamente ben delimitato, qual XIX ha sido la fuente de alimentación principal de todos è quello preso qui in considerazione. Il volume si conclude nuestros museos hasta el siglo XX. Las grandes colecciones con una Postfazione di Ermanno A. Arslan – dal titolo “Note, iban acreciendo su riflessioni e problematiche inerenti alla monetazione di importancia a medida que Rhegion dal IV al I sec. a.C., nel quadro dei suoi rapporti absorbían las pequeñas y con Roma, e delle realtà politiche, economiche e culturali del locales. Muchas de ellas mondo magnogreco” – che aggiunge nuove considerazioni pasaron al Estado gracias e stimoli per ulteriori approfondimenti e ricerche. a donaciones y compras, Text from: http://www.gangemieditore.com/scheda_articolo. incluso las colecciones php?isbn=9788849228854 reales, otras salieron de España por falta de recursos del gobierno. Nicola Parise, “Monete greche Este es el caso de la d’Italia meridionale”, Roma: gran colección de finales Istituto Italiano di Numismatica, del siglo XIX de Rafael “Studi e Materiali” 17, 2015, Cervera, quien nos ha 320 p. dejado en su inventario- manuscrito, hasta ahora L’Autore raccoglie i lavori prodotti inédito, todos los datos negli anni sulle emissioni della de procedencia de cada Magna Grecia, e ricompone una moneda: el coleccionista storia delle zecche dell’Italia a quien se la compra, el meridionale. Si ripercorrono gli territorio donde éste actúa avvenimenti storici ed economici y la descripción de tipos di una intera area, partendo y leyendas de cada pieza. Datos todos ellos importantes dall’esame delle emissioni para la ciencia numismática, sobre todo al estar formada monetali, delle loro caratteristiche la colección por piezas excepcionales por su conservación, formali e sostanziali e dalla loro calidad artística y rareza de tipos o leyendas. distribuzione, e confrontandoli con Rafael Cervera llegó a reunir a finales del siglo XIX la mejor le informazioni fornite da tutte le colección privada de moneda española. Su alto valor altre classi di fonti: storiografiche, económico impidió que el Estado Español la comprara epigrafiche, archeologiche. pero sin embargo pudo ser adquirida por el gran hispanófilo Archer M. Huntington para The Hispanic Society of America (New York). A ella ha pertenecido durante más Jacqueline Morineau HUMPHRIS & Diana DELBRIDGE, de un siglo y en 2012 esta institución la ha vendido en The Coinage of the Opountian Lokrians, London: Royal subasta a través de Sotheby’s. El presente libro ofrece un Numismatic Society Special Publication no. 50, 2014, vii estudio pormenorizado de las 1.500 monedas –griegas, + 254 pp., 61 pl. púnicas, ibéricas, celtibéricas, turdetanas...– realizado con anterioridad a su diáspora. This publication deals with the entire coinage, silver and bronze, of the Opountian Lokrians in Central from the early fourth century BC to the later first century AD. Roberto RUSSO, The RBW Collection of Roman Introductory chapters deal with Republican Coins, with collaboration of Alberto de the history and mythology of the region and the various forms Falco (Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG 2013), with of ethnic found on the coins historical notes by David Vagi, Edited by Andrew McCabe, and in literary and epigraphic Arturo Russo, Giuliano Russo, Claire Hallgarth, Zurick, sources. They are followed by 2013, 432 pp., ill. ISBN: full die-studies of all series in 978-88-7794-835-9 both and discussion of their dates and significance. This volume is a record The silver, belonging mostly if of the RBW Collection not entirely to the fourth century of Roman Republican BC, comprises an abundant Coins, as they were series of staters of high artistic auctioned in three quality, drachms, triobols, and separate sales: the Triton smaller fractions in several III sale of December denominations. The bronze is 1999, where the bulk of divided into 42 groups, ranging the gold coins were sold; in date from the mid-4th century and the Numismatica BC to AD c.68/69. Ars Classica Sales 61 (October, 2011) and 63 (May, 2012), where the Mª Paz GARCÍA-BELLIDO y W. E. METCALF, La bronze, silver, and the colección Cervera. Moneda antigua de Hispania. Con remainder of the gold la participación de Gloria Mora y la colaboración de was sold. Encarnación González, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Ă Investigaciones Científicas, Ed. Polifemo, 2014, 468 pp. Cristian G ZDAC – Franz 1576 monedas ilustradas. ISBN 978-84-00-09867-4 y HUMER – Edie POLLHAMMER, In the Shadow of the 978-84-96813-99-1. Heathens’ Gate. The Black Book of the Gold Coins from Carnuntum, Cluj-Napoca: MEGA Publishing House, El coleccionismo de moneda y epígrafes antiguos que 2014, 136 pp. (A4 size), 891 coloured figures. ISBN 978- arranca ya desde el siglo XVI y tiene su culmen en el siglo 606-543-482-0.

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 12 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 13 The book contains 202 gold wars that brought an end to the Republic up to the beginning coins: 5 Celtic; 148 Roman – of Late Antiquity. The volume gives both a picture of the state from Caesar to Theodosius of research on these topics and covers a series of questions II; 17 Late Roman – from the that are still debated by experts in the field. Readers will period after the conventional also find a rich bibliography covering the historical sources, abandoned date of numismatics and papyrology. The introduction, from the pen Pannonia (AD 430); 28 of J. Andreau, and the conclusion, by M. Christol, help to Byzantine; and 4 medieval contextualize the collection as a whole in relation to current pieces. All these coins were research. found on the territory of Sommaire : ancient Roman metropolis Michel Reddé, Avant-propos of Carnuntum – Pannonia Superior (today’s, Petronell- Jean Andreau, L’économie romaine, l’armée, la monnaie : Carnuntum, Austria), a city réflexions de méthode pour une entrée en matière placed at junction point 1. L’administration des paiements between the Amber and Benoît Rossignol, Le personnel administratif de la paye des the Limes roads. At the soldats present state of research, none of these coins were Michael A. Speidel, Roman varmy pay scales revisited: discovered within a hoard, responses and answers which, if the information is Pierre Cosme, Les comptes du procurateur de Syrie right, places Carnuntum Hélène Cuvigny, La ration mensuelle d’un cavalier et de son among the sites that provided the largest number of gold chevald’après un ostracon du praesidium de Dios (désert coins found as single finds. The coin catalogue is preceded Oriental d’Égypte) by introductive chapters regarding the history of Carnuntum Jean-Michel Carrié, Un seul achat peut-il saigner à blanc le during the chronological segments that have produced the soldat ? Retour sur l’Edictum de pretiis et le montant de la mentioned gold coins. solde à l’époque tétrarchique 2. Les modes de paiement Stéphane Martin, Auxiliaria stipendia merere. La solde des De l’or pour les braves ! Robert BENNETT, Local Elites and Local Coinage: auxiliaires de la fin de la guerre sociale à la fin du Ier s. p.C. Cet ouvrage collectif, issu d’une table ronde organisée à Paris par l’UMR 8210 (AnHiMa), présente une douzaine de communications consacrées à la manière dont De l’or pour les braves ! étaient payés les soldats de l’armée romaine. Écrites en français ou en anglais par des Elite Self-Representation Johan van Heesch, Paying the Roman soldiers in the East historiens, des numismates et des papyrologues, elles abordent différents aspects des Soldes, armées et circulation monétaire rémunérations, en espèce ou en nature, accordées au miles : l’administration et le montant de la solde, les prestations en nature, le numéraire utilisé, les gratifications dans le monde romain on the Provincial Coinage (1st-2nd century AD) exceptionnelles, la propagande impériale qui s’exprime à travers les émissions et les images monétaires, depuis les guerres civiles de la fin de la République jusqu’au début de l’Antiquité tardive. L’ouvrage fait en même temps le point des connaissances actuelles mais aussi des questions toujours débattues entre spécialistes. Le lecteur of Asia 31 BC – AD 275. David Wigg-Wolf, Coin supply and the Roman army revisited: y trouvera au passage une riche bibliographie qui associe les réflexions sur les textes réunis par sources historiques, numismatiques et papyrologiques. L’introduction de J. Andreau, Michel REDDÉ et la conclusion, écrite par M. Christol, permettent de replacer cet ensemble de London: Royal Numismatic coin finds and military finance in the late-first and second contributions dans l’évolution des recherches actuelles. ! pour les braves De l’or • Society Special Publication centuries AD This collection of essays, arising from a seminar organized in Paris by UMR 8210 (AnHiMa), presents a dozen papers devoted to the study of the of Roman soldiers. Containing papers in French and English by experts from different no. 51, 2014. xxiv + 178 pp., specialities, historians, numismatists and papyrologists, it examines various aspects Vincent Drost, François Planet, Les témoignages of the payment of the troops, both in cash and in kind: the administration and the amount of the salary, in kind, coin types used, exceptional rewards, the ways in which imperial propoganda was communicated by means of particular coin 31 pl. numismatiques de la bataille de Lyon en 197 issues and their images, all within a temporal range running from the civil wars that brought an end to the Republic up to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The volume gives both a picture of the state of research on these topics and covers a series of questions that are still debated by experts in the field. Readers will also find a rich 3. Les donativa bibliography covering the historical sources, numismatics and papyrology. The In this book the author examines introduction, from the pen of J. Andreau, and the conclusion, by M. Christol, help to contextualize the collection as a whole in relation to current research. the role and representation of the Raphaëlle Laignoux, Des guerres à prix d’or : multiplication provincial elites in the production et cérémonialisation des distributions exceptionnelles à la fin and distribution of the abundant de la République

ScriptaAntiqua 69 local coinages of the Province Fleur Kemmers, Buying loyalty: targeted iconography and http://ausoniuseditions.u-bordeaux3.fr/fr/ of Asia in the Roman Imperial the distribution of cash to the legions 69 isbn 978-2-35613-117-1 issn 1298-1990 prix 25 € SA Ausonius period. It includes discussion Sylviane Estiot, De l’or pour quels braves ? Le type monétaire of local magistracies in general, de la “Traversée de l’empereur” et la logistique fluviale et their antecedents, the various maritime des campagnes militaires impériales formulae whereby eponyms signed their coinages, and the Michel Christol, Conclusions relationship of iconography to eponyms, denomination and ‘monumentality’. A wealth of case-studies includes detailed discussion of the important mints of Thyateria and Laodikeia on the Lykos, and full type-catalogues of their Roman Consuelo MATA, Helena BONET, Eva COLLADO, Mercedes Provincial output. FUENTES, Isabel IZQUIERDO, Ricard MARLASCA, Andrea MORENO, Josep Lluís PASCUAL, Fernando QUESADA, David QUIXAL, Pere Pau RIPOLLÈS, Alfred M. REDDE (éd.), De l’or pour les braves ! Soldes, armées SANCHIS, Lucía SORIA y Carmen TORMO, Fauna Ibérica. et circulation monétaire dans le monde romain, Actes de la De lo real a lo imaginario (II), Valencia: Serie de Trabajos table ronde INHA Paris, septembre 2013, Scripta antiqua Varios 117, 276 pp., il. ISBN 978-84-7705-705-8. 69, Bordeaux, 2014 – 288 pp. ISBN: 978-2-35613-117-1. El libro publica el resultado del proyecto de investigación This collection of essays, arising from a seminar organized “De lo real a lo imaginario. II. Aproximación a la fauna ibérica in Paris by UMR 8210 (AnHiMa), presents a dozen papers durante la Edad del Hierro” desarrollado entre 2009 y 2012, devoted to the study of the payment of Roman soldiers. en la Universitat de València, liderado por la Dra. Consuelo Containing papers in French and English by experts Mata. Con él se completa el estudio del paisaje biótico de from different specialities, historians, numismatists and los iberos que se inició en 2005 con el proyecto sobre la flora papyrologists, it examines various aspects of the payment of de la Edad del Hierro en la fachada mediterránea peninsular. the troops, both in cash and in kind: the administration and Los datos completos de ambos proyectos se han publicado the amount of the salary, payments in kind, coin types used, en acceso libre en la página http://florayfaunaiberica.org. exceptional rewards, the ways in which imperial propoganda En este volumen se han recopilado, descrito y clasificado was communicated by means of particular coin issues and todos los ítems faunísticos publicados y algunos inéditos, their images, all within a temporal range running from the civil tanto orgánicos como iconográficos en piedra, cerámica,

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 12 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 13 , moneda o pasta vítrea. El análisis de los restos ¿Qué pone aquí?, El poder de los símbolos, Tesoros: el orgánicos proporciona información sobre las pautas de dinero perdido y Los primeros falsificadores. La segunda alimentación, la elaboración de productos secundarios, el parte del libro presenta otros temas también de forma uso de huesos y cuernos didáctica mediante diferentes tipos de infografías, para fabricar objetos elaboradas a partir del tratamiento estadístico de grandes variados, además de cantidades de datos, de repertorios gráficos exhaustivos acercarnos al mundo y de cartografías amigables. Incluyen una introducción a simbólico de los iberos a Las monedas antiguas de la Península Ibérica, Los diseños través de sus ofrendas y según su volumen de emisión, Cecas, Anversos, Reversos, sacrificios. Por su parte, las Un mundo de símbolos, Tesoros y Contramarcas. El imágenes ya sean pintadas, catálogo trata de ofrecer un tratamiento de la información esculpidas, grabadas, muy visual, donde grafismo, dibujos, diseños, colores y modeladas o fundidas tipografías variadas contribuyan a crear un repertorio visual trasladan a otros escenarios ameno acompañado por textos breves. en el que los animales tuvieron un significado Medieval, Modern and Contemporary simbólico. El análisis de los contextos ha sido de gran Numismatics importancia para determinar la existencia de, al menos, Ashgate Press launch New Editorial Series: Religion and dos sistemas simbólicos Money in the Middle Ages que no son excluyentes: el aristocrático, cuya The series aims to explore the connections between two meta principal es la auto- of the most dominant aspects of medieval society and representación identitaria de culture: religion and money. Both are ubiquitous throughout hombres y mujeres; y el religioso donde fundamentalmente the Middle Ages, and both are expressed through a wide interesa honrar a las divinidades, ensalzar sus valores y variety of media, from the textual to the material. In this light, mediar en el tránsito de los difuntos al Más Allá. the series recognises the importance of multi-disciplinary La numismática constituye un mundo particular, pues si perspectives, as well as single-disciplinary perspectives, on bien en algunos casos existe una coincidencia con otros the issues and questions connected to religion and money. soportes, por ejemplo el caballo como representante All disciplinary perspectives are welcome, particularly from del varón ibero, en la mayor parte de los casos tiene una archaeology, history (social, ecclesiastical, intellectual and personalidad propia. En este libro se recopilan y analizan economic), theology, anthropology and numismatics. todas las figuras de animales que aparecen en las monedas Of especial interest are studies that explore issues on the antiguas de la Península Ibérica. theory and practice of money within religious contexts. Examples might include attitudes towards money expressed M. GOZALBES and A. SÁNCHEZ, Històries en miniatura. in intellectual systems and by individual religious thinkers, Les nostres primeres monedas, Valencia: Museu de how religious institutions organized their economies, and attitudes towards money in daily life and at a practical level, Prehistòria de València - Diputación de Valencia, 2014, from larger communities, to individuals. Studies of the 62 pp. il. ISBN: 978-84-7795-699-0. interconnections and contrasts, overlaps and distinctions, between these attitudes and practices are encouraged. El catálogo de la exposición “Historias en Miniatura”, abierta How differences between theory and practice emerge, how entre 16 de julio de 2014 y el 11 de enero de 2015, ofrece they are reconciled, or how they remain unresolved, are una introducción a diversas cuestiones clave relacionadas questions the series is keen to explore. The range of source con las monedas antiguas acuñadas en la Península Ibérica. material available, and the centrality of both subjects to La primera parte incluye una visión concisa y didáctica medieval life, culture, belief and activity, allow for breadth sobre 12 temas and depth of investigation and insight into the medieval esenciales de la past at its most intimate and in its largest institutions and numismática antigua social structures. de Iberia/Hispania Series editor: Svein H. Gullbekk, Museum of Cultural empleando textos History, University of Oslo, Norway and Giles E. M. Gasper, breves y dibujos, Department of History, Durham University, United Kingdom. junto a una selección For more information on how to submit a book proposal – de imágenes de monographs and edited collections – to the series, please monedas de la contact Tom Gray, at [email protected]. colección del Museu de Prehistòria de G.E.M. GASPER and S.H. GULLBEKK (eds.), Money and València y preguntas the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200: Practice, en relación con las materias tratadas. Morality and Thought, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington: Las preguntas Ashgate Press, 2015, 225 pp., 22 colour and 5 b&w formuladas en cada illustrations. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5682-3. tema encuentran su respuesta en Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of dos páginas finales disciplines, this collection explores two of the most del libro con las important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money soluciones. Los textos y diseños de los 12 temas elegidos and the church. By focusing on the interactions between fueron también los que se presentaron en las vitrinas de these subjects, the volume addresses four key themes. la exposición: Las primeras monedas, Monedas para Firstly it offers new perspectives on the role of churchmen la guerra, Una cuestión de autoridad, La fabricación de in providing conceptual frameworks, from outright moneda, La primera y la última moneda ibérica, El denario, condemnation, to sophisticated economic theory, for the use Monedas para la vida cotidiana, No todos escribían igual, and purpose of money within medieval society. Secondly it discusses the dichotomy of money for the church and its

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 14 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 15 officers: on one hand voices emphasise the moral difficulties El Gabinet Numismàtic de Catalunya ha publicado las in engaging with money, on the other the reality of the actas del XVIII Curs d’Història Monetària Hispànica, ya ubiquitous use of money in the church at all levels and in anunciadas en esta misma tribuna, en la que es segunda places within Christendom. Thirdly it places in dialogue inter- época de estos históricos disciplinary perspectives and approaches, and evidence cursos. En esta ocasión from philosophy, history, literature and material culture, to el tema son los meraux, the issues of money and church. Lastly, the volume provides jetones o tantos de coro, new perspectives on the role of the church in the process inicialmente creados of monetization in the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on para un uso interno northern Europe, from the early eleventh century to the en las comunidades beginning of the thirteenth century, the collection is able canonicales de to explore the profound changes in the use of money and catedrales, colegiatas the rise of a money-economy that this period and region y otras instituciones witnessed. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the religiosas de Cataluña y collection challenges current understanding of how money Mallorca que, a menudo, was perceived, understood and used by medieval clergy in también circularon en a range of different contexts. It furthermore provides wide- el ámbito local, donde ranging contributions to the broader economic and ethical rara era la población de issues of the period, demonstrating how the church became una cierta entidad que a major force in the process of monetization. no tuviese sus propias pellofes eclesiásticas. Los principales especialistas del tema (Jaume Boada, Maria Clua, Xavier Jorba, Josep. M. Llobet, Josep M. Martí, Alba Rodríguez, Jordi Sacasas i Xavier Sanahuja) han contribuido a esta obra que es ya de referencia tanto por las aportaciones que se han hecho como por su voluntad de obra de síntesis sobre un tema todavía poco estudiado.

Ferenc SOÓS, A magyar fémpénzek feliratai és címerei. [The Inscriptions and Coats-of-arms on Hungarian coins] : Argumentum and Hungarian Numismatic Society, 2014, 313 p. ill. ISBN 978-963-446-731-1.

Hungarian numismatic literature has been lacking comprehensive book, wherein the legends and the abbreviated inscriptions would be discussed. These Lom stave church in Oppland in Norway, build c. 1150s-1160s. Archaeological ex- scripts had been Latin for eight and half centuries and the cavations in the 1970s yielded more than 2300 coins, mostly from the Middle Ages. reading and interpretation of them were difficult even for the Photo: Giles E.M. Gasper, Durham University. contemporary layman. The abbreviations are written out in full and the coats-of-arms Contents: Prefatory Remarks; Introduction: money and the within the designs are Church: definitions, disciplines and directions, Giles E. M. identified. Gasper. Part I Attitudes to Money within the Church: Turpe In the first part of the book lucrum? Wealth, money and coinage in the Millennial Church the history of writing is (c. 975-1125), Rory Naismith; Contemplating money and discussed along with the wealth in monastic writing c.1060-c.1160, Giles E. M. Gasper; inscriptions and touching Nummus falsus: the perception of in the upon the rules of heraldic 11th and early , Greti Dinkova-Bruun; A herald in the light of numismatic of scholasticism: Alan of Lille on economic virtues, Odd specificities. This is where Langholm. Part II Buying, Selling and Building: the Use of the family coats-of-arms Money by the Church: Financing cathedral building in the High are treated drawing Middle Ages, Wim Vroom; Cash starved? The Church and attention to the fact that its use of money in post-conquest England, James Bolton; these signs (stamped The Church and monetization in early medieval Denmark, c. signatures) appeared as 1060-1160, Bjørn Poulsen; The Church, markets and money identification marks of the in England, Nicholas J. Mayhew & Susan J. Mayhew. Part treasure responsible III Money and Power: Coinage, Salvation and Ritual: From for mintage. HENRICUS REX to ROTHARDUS ABBAS: monastic coinage The second part of the book under the Ottonians and Salians (c.911-1125), Sebastian comprises a catalogue Steinbach; Saints, dukes and bishops: coinage in ducal where the description of Normandy, Jens Christian Moesgaard; Saints, sinners and the current Hungarian … a cow: interpreting coins in ritual contexts, Lucia Travaina; coins functioning as royal tender is given in chronological The Church and money in Norway c.1050-1250: salvation order and according to types. The most characteristic, highly and monetisation, Svein H. Gullbekk. Index. typical coins were selected hopingly widely different both in inscriptions and coats-of-arms. The appendix gives the Albert ESTRADA-RIUS (coord.), Pellofes & ploms heraldic description and figure of the coats-of-arms or the eclesiàstics. Un patrimoni numismàtic per descobrir, lexical data of the geographical territories appearing in the Barcelona: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, 2014, legends and the coats-of-arms of the Hungarian coins. The 172 pp. il. ISBN: 978-84-8043-274-0. book closes with the pertaining list of literature, notes, list of abbreviations used in the book and the name of index.

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 14 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 15 Andreas HEDWIG (Hrsg.), Finanzpolitik und HISTORIA MUNDI. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 2014 Schuldenkrisen 16.-20. Jahrhundert (Schriften des issue 4, 236 pp. full color ill. ISBN: 978-88-210-0923-5. Hessischen Staatsarchivs Marburg, Bd. 28), Marburg: Hess. Staatsarchiv 2014, 358 pp., ill., 87 illustrations in The Vatican Medagliere is pleased to announce the colours. ISBN 978-3-88964-214-1 publication of Historia Mundi issue 4. It includes the following articles: Le nuove acquisizioni 2012-2013 del Medagliere Angeregt durch die moderne Vaticano; Silvana Balbi de Caro, Geometria e Armonia nelle Krise der internationalen medaglie di Pisanello; Laura Cretara, Genesi della statua di Finanzmärkte, fand in 2013 San Francesco D’Assisi; in Marburg eine Tagung Philip Attwood, Papal zur Finanzgeschichte der Medals in the British Frühneuzeit bis zur Moderne Museum; Eleonora statt, die sich mit den Giampiccolo, Gioacchino Staatsfinanzen befasste, Francesco Travani e i ihren Rahmenbedingungen, suoi discendenti; Roberto den Akteuren und den Ganganelli, Propaganda Auswirkungen. In den elf e guerra psicologica in medaglia: Karl Goetz Vorträgen dieser Tagung e il caso Lusitania; sind auch Missbräuche des Roberto Ginocchi, Da Münzwesens, Experimente Sarajevo a Versailles: mit neuen Geldformen und La “Inutile Strage” nelle trickreiche Transaktionen medaglie di Benedetto von Papieren aller Art XV; Giancarlo Alteri, eingeschlossen, die aus Giovanni XXIII e Giacomo numismatischer Sicht von Manzù; Robert Hoge, The den Archivaren KONRAD Olin Corporation 1973 SCHNEIDER und NIKLOT KLÜSSENDORF behandelt werden. Commemorative ; Die Verbindung zu den Realien solcher Machenschaften Jankowski Lyce, Short zieht ein Quellenteil mit 87 erstmals in Farbe abgebildeten introduction to Chinese neuen Objekten, darunter Falschmünzen, Geldscheine, numismatics. A bibliographical approach; Ermanno Arslan, Schuldverschreibungen und Finanzdokumente, erwachsen L’omaggio dei pellegrini alla tomba di San Pietro; Eleonora aus einer Ausstellung solcher Dokumente aus den Beständen Giampiccolo, Piccola storia di una grande moneta papale: des Hessischen Staatsarchivs Marburg. la piastra. For information: [email protected] It also contains a monograph by Giancarlo Alteri: Quando il metallo si fa musica (di alcune “medaglie musicali” di Giannantonio Bucci). Medals The fifth issue is in preparation. It is scheduled for November 2015. Maria F.P. SAFFIOTTI DALE (ed.). European Medals in the For information, please contact the following email Chazen Museum of Art Highlights from the Vernon Hall addresses: [email protected] or [email protected] Collection and Later Acquisitions. Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, American Numismatic Society, 2014. Softcover, illus. ISBN: 978-1-93327-017-3 Giancarlo ALTERI. Aurea Roma. La storia urbanistica di Roma attraverso le medaglie papali. Roma: Biblioteca This grouping of medals Apostolica Vaticana - Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello represents the museum’s Stato, 2014. 428 pp. full color ill. ISBN: 978-88-240- Renaissance, Baroque, 1334-5. and nineteenth-century highlights and illustrates Authored by Giancarlo Giancarlo alteri the history of the art Alteri, formerly of the commemorative director of the Vatican AUREA ROMA medal. This catalogue Medagliere, this La storia urbanistica di Roma attraverso le medaglie papali incorporates an volume presents the Introductory Essay urban history of by Stephen K. Scher through the papal and the scholarship architectural medals contributions of nine kept at the Vatican international medallic Medagliere. It has experts: Philip Attwood, been published in co- Arne R. Flaten, Mark edition with the Istituto Jones, Douglas Lewis, Poligrafico e Zecca Eleonora Luciano, dello Stato. After a Joseph G. Reinis, brief introduction on Stephen K. Scher, the main monuments Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Louis A. Waldman. Their erudition, of Rome built starting consummate research skills, and effective prose are evident from up in sixty-one essays on some of the masterpieces of this art to Pope Martin V, form written for the education and enjoyment of students, the author leads specialists, and the general public alike. the reader to the discovery of the city monuments which the Roman pontiffs, from Paul II to Pius IX, wanted to eternalize on the metal flan, through anecdotes and legends,

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 16 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 17 historical and technical information. The volume contains spannenden Lesewert. a rich photographic apparatus: the medals, the prints, the Es ist kein Lesebuch im paintings and the drawings reveal the unreachable beauty herkömmlichen Sinn, of the Eternal City. eher eine Enzyklopädie, For information, please contact the following email aus der sich jeder Leser addresses: [email protected] or [email protected] das herauspickt, was ihn interessiert. „Medaillen und Münzen Albert ESTRADA-RIUS (dir.), Històries metàl·liques. Art i rund um das Thema poder a la medalla europea, Barcelona: Museu Nacional Geowissenschaften sind d’Art de Catalunya, 2014, 163 pp. il. ISBN: 978-84-8043- das Alleinstellungsmerkmal 271-9. der Sammlung Stork. Der zeitliche und thematische La exposición Històries metàl·liques. Art i poder a la medalla Bogen spannt sich z. europea ha ofrecido la oportunidad de preparar este B. von antiken Münzen catálogo en el que han contribuido algunos de los principales auf den berühmten especialistas en el estudio de la medalla conmemorativa Vulkanausbruch des Vesuvs europea (Julio Torres, Víctor Mínguez, Marina Cano, Sylvie im Jahre 79 n. Chr. bis hin de Turckheim-Pey, Jean-Marie Darnis, Javier Gimeno, zu modernen, aus rein William Eisler, Lucie Moriceau, Cristina Fontcuberta). Por kommerziellem Interesse su interés reproducimos el geprägten Pseudomünzen, von hochkarätigen Medaillen índice: 1) El lenguaje de la der Renaissance und des Barock bis zu den ungezählten medalla, en el cruce de la neueren Gelegenheitsmedaillen.“ emulación de la antigüedad Dr. Reiner Cunz Oberkurator des Münzkabinetts des y el ansia de modernidad 2) Niedersächsischen Landesmuseums Hannover La medalla conmemorativa Das Erscheinen des Buches wurde u. a. von der y la construcción del relato Numismatischen Kommission der Länder in der histórico 3) Manifestación de Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Gitta-Kastner- poder y alegorías reales en Forschungsstiftung gefördert. la medalla 4) La tecnología al servicio del poder: la prensa de Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Hannover volante y el tórculo calcográfico Geschäftsstelle 5) La medalla papal y las c/o Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover conmemoraciones pontificias. Willy-Brandt-Allee 5 Medallas de edición periódica 30169 Hannover y series de restitución 6) De la [email protected] Francia metálica a la historia metálica de Luís XIV 7) La historia metálica de Napoleón Personalia y la respuesta inglesa de James Mudie 8) Las historias metálicas impresas y la medalla en los Países Bajos 9) La guerra metálica de Luís Professore Giovanni Gorini festeggiato dal XIV y Guillermo de Orange 10) De la Guerra de Separación a la Guerra de Sucesión: Catalunya en las medallas de Luís Presidente della SNI XIV y el archiduque Carlos 11) La dinastía de los Dassier y Il 12 Aprile 2014 in occasione della Assemblea annuale la producción de las series de medallas 12) ¿España, una della Società Numismatica Italiana a Milano nella sala monarquía sin historia metálica? Weil Weiss del Castello Sforzesco, Giovanni Gorini iscritto nel 2013 nell’ Gerd-Henrich STORK, Geowissenschaften im Spiegel Albo d’Onore della von Medaillen und Münzen, Hannover 2014 (= S.N.I. è stato festeggiato Naturhistorica 154/155), 724 S. ISBN: 978-3-929444- dal Presidente della 39-1 SNI dr. ing. Ermanno „Die Sammlung Stork mit ihrem einzigartigen Schwerpunkt Winsemann Falghera e auf Geowissenschaften ist die bedeutendste numismatische da tutti gli intervenuti. Schenkung, die das Landesmuseum jemals erhalten hat.“ Per l’occasione Gorini, Dr. Katja Lembke Direktorin des Niedersächsischen già vice presidente della Landesmuseums Hannover International Numismatic Das Werk „Geowissenschaften im Spiegel von Commission (2005- Medaillen und Münzen“ von Gerd-Henrich Stork ist 2009) e professore di durch die Zusammenarbeit der Gebiete Numismatik, Numismatica Antica Geowissenschaften, Paläontologie und Biologie im Haus des all’Università di Padova Landesmuseums Hannover entstanden – ein Paradebeispiel (1971-2011). Ha parlato für Interdisziplinarität. sul tema: La presenza G.-H. Stork schenkt seine über Jahrzehnte gesammelten di moneta greca in Italia Medaillen und Münzen dem Niedersächsischen Settentrionale Landesmuseum Hannover. Das begleitende Buch dazu ist weit mehr als nur ein Sammlungskatalog. Es enthält über 4000 Stücke und soll auf die außerordentliche Vielfalt und Vielgestaltigkeit aufmerksam machen. Durch das umfangreich enthaltene Grundlagenwissen zu den verschiedenen Themen und zu bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten auf die Medaillen geprägt wurden erreicht das Buch

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 16 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 17 Verleihung der Wolfgang Hahn-Medaille an et Olivier Desbordes, le premier tome de l’Histoire Bernhard Prokisch Auguste (Paris, les Belles Lettres, 1992) ainsi que la Correspondance de Gerbert d’Aurillac, pape de l’An mil Am 1. Dezember 2014, Tag des Hl. Eligius, bekam sous le nom de Sylvestre II, avec Pierre Riché (Paris, les Privatdoz. Dr. Bernhard Prokisch die „Wolfgang Hahn- Belles Lettres, 1993). Mais, dès 1954, l’enseignement Medaille für Verdienste um das Institut für Numismatik de Jean Lafaurie à l’Ecole Pratique l’attira. Il était donc und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien“. Nach einer « assis, entre deux chaises, sur le strapontin de la kurzen Einführung von Prof. Emmerig sprach Prof. numismatique, une simple science auxiliaire pour les Wolfgang Szaivert die Laudatio, worauf zwei weiteren philologues et les historiens ». Son Genio Populi Romani Laudationen der Studentinnen Hanna- Lisa Karasch und (295-316) : contribution à une histoire numismatique de Elisabeth Preisinger folgten. Nach der Überreichung der la Tétrarchie paru chez Champion en 1960, était très Medaille ergriff Herrn Dr. Prokisch das Wort und bedankte novateur. La publication de sa thèse de doctorat, La sich mit einer kurzweiligen Rede. Das Programm war mit politique monétaire des empereurs romains de 238 à einem musikalischen Rahmen versehen und von F. Beyer 311 (BEFAR 214, De Boccard, 1969) fut un événement, und W. Wollnetz mit Saxophon bzw. Gitarre gestaltet. Der et reste un livre essentiel. Monument exceptionnel Abend schloss mit dem Advents- und zugleich frühen d’érudition, l’historien montrait « l’importance du IIIe Weihnachtsfest des Instituts in ungezwungenem und siècle comme phase de transition et de maturation des fruchtbarem Beisammensein bei Trank und Speisen, transformations du IVe siècle » (L. Cracco Ruggieri), die hauptsächlich durch die Studierenden bereitgestellt s’intéressant au monnayage de bronze en Orient de wurden. Zu diesem Anlass und wurde zusätzlich ein 238 à 276 et tentant de dégager des indications sur le Sonderheft des Mitteilungsblatts herausgegeben, das volume des émissions, la circulation des espèces, les unter anderem ein Schriftenverzeichnis von Bernhard systèmes métrologiques pour démontrer « combien Prokisch. Dieses kann am Institut bezogen werden und était alors facile la conversion entre les séries locales de ist auf der Homepage des Instituts auch online verfügbar bronze et les multiples impériaux d’argent » (L. Cracco (http://numismatik.univie.ac.at/mitteilungsblatt). Ruggieri).

Jean-Pierre Callu aimait fréquenter le Cabinet des mé- dailles, « éprouvant le sentiment délicieux d’y faire une Obituaries visite », où les heures passaient vite avec « les dénombre- ments, les tabulations, les statistiques » et où les idées pouvaient s’épanouir grâce à la majesté des lieux. Mais, s’il avait pénétré les arcanes de la numismatique, il n’en Jean-Pierre Callu (1929-2014) était pas devenu numismate pour autant. Ce serait lui faire injure que de le ranger au nombre de ces spécia- Jean-Pierre Callu est décédé à Donville-les-Bains, dans listes, scrutateurs la Manche, le 29 août. Né à Paris le 23 octobre 1929, de petits disques élevé strictement dans un milieu catholique, éloigné de métal, l’œil vissé de Paris durant l’Occupation, il y reprend ses études à leur loupe ou au dès la Libération. Il entre à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure microscopique : les en 1951 où il se liera d’amitié à Claude Nicolet (réunis typologues de Ca- par leur intérêt pour l’histoire romaine et les cours de binet lui inspiraient Jean Bayet et William Seston), obtient l’agrégation de la méfiance. de lettres classiques en 1954, et devient membre de Pour Jean-Pierre l’Ecole Française de Rome de 1957 à 1959. A son Callu, la pièce indi- retour en France se déroulera une carrière universitaire viduelle, observable classique, assistant à Strasbourg (1959/60) et Paris et palpable, ne parle (1960-63), chargé de cours, maître de conférences pas ou, si elle le fait, puis professeur à Rennes (1963-72), Paris-X-Nanterre on aurait tort de (1972-88), enfin la Sorbonne (1988-98). Depuis 1981, trop s’y fier. Il faut il était également chargé d’une direction d’études accumuler des in- intitulée « histoire et littérature du Bas Empire » à dividus qui finissent l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes IVe Section. Cette par s’intégrer dans direction hybride reflétait parfaitement l’équilibre d’évidents regrou- difficile que conciliait Jean-Pierre Callu, entre histoire pements, addi- monétaire et histoire culturelle. Latiniste et ayant eu la tionner du morcelé révélation du Bas-Empire, il s’intéressa, contrairement non significatif pour à la volonté de Pierre Courcelle, au « vieux sénateur » faire transparaître Symmaque, s’écartant, selon ses propres termes, de un sens, récolter « la partie vivante de la Renaissance théodosienne, méthodiquement des exemplaires reclassés en séries, cette patristique annonciatrice des siècles chrétiens ». mettre ainsi au jour des tendances générales, des direc- Il va donc traduire et commenter les Lettres (Paris, tions lisibles, construire « le fait monétaire », sur lequel Les Belles Lettres, 4 vols., 1972-2002) et les Discours s’échafaude la preuve patente ou logique. De la Poli- (Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2009) de ce « représentant tique monétaire à l’Or monnayé II paru en 1990 (Cahiers typique d’une classe encore puissante et consciente de Ernest-Babelon 3), en collaboration avec Xavier Loriot, la l’être, conservatrice, paternaliste… mais qui constituait démarche intellectuelle n’a pas varié. Il s’est toujours agi un rouage de première importance dans le système d’étudier la vie de la monnaie une fois qu’elle a quitté politique de l’Empire tardif » (L. Cracco Ruggieri). l’officine, de rétablir sa dynamique, de lire son histoire là Jean-Pierre Callu donna également, avec Anne Gaden où les textes se taisent. Jean-Pierre Callu avait très rapi-

International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 18 International Numismatic e-Newletter 18 | January 2015 | 19 dement saisi que la numismatique ne devait pas s’enfer- crassest surname in London; in truth, it is local, from a mer sur elle-même, mais s’ouvrir à des voies nouvelles. place named for beautiful oaks. Out of respect for his Si les tentatives d’évaluation des volumes de production, family’s origins in the Polish gentry he purchased the ce qu’il appelait la métanumismatique, ont rencontré en lordship of the manor of Parkbury in Hertfordshire, Hitchin lui une certaine méfiance, l’approche statistique ne l’a hundred, Kimpton parish. en revanche pas rebuté. Il a également perçu très vite l’intérêt extraordinaire des méthodes d’analyse nucléaire After the War he studied in Dublin, and worked as a appliquées dans le domaine de la numismatique. design engineer. Following retirement he gained a PhD in political science at the Polish University in Exile in London L’Institut ajouta la dernière touche à son cursus (1992). He had a special love of Japanese, but his hoped- exemplaire. Il fut élu à l’Académie des Inscriptions et for international congress in did not come about. Belles-Lettres le 10 février 1995 au siège de Pierre Marot. He did, however, attend the international numismatic Des Journées internationales d’histoire monétaire autour congress in , 1967, already compiling a de son œuvre furent organisées en octobre 2000 et les numismatic reference, which was published in time for communications publiées dans la Revue Numismatique the next congress: International Numismatic Directory, 2003. Un recueil de ses écrits est paru en 2010 sous le 1973 (London, 1973), including a useful ‘Who’s who’ titre La monnaie dans l’Antiquité tardive. Trente-quatre section on pp. 224-60. études de 1972 à 2002 (Edipuglia, Bari). He collected and sold books, especially on numismatics Jean-Pierre Callu se définissait comme un chercheur and , and donated a valuable library to the isolé, un « amateur de bonne volonté ». Son contact Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu in Lublin. His interest in pouvait intimider, tant sa culture et son savoir étaient bookplates led to his commissioning of two ex-libris from immenses. Mais sa « courtoisie, même distanciée, n’était Bernhard Kuhlmann of Delmenhorst, one naming him as pas trop décourageante » (C. Nicolet). a petrochemical engineer, and a second showing him as a parachutist. He also collected wine labels, and latterly Retenons l’enseignement fondamental de ses écrits, dont hand-bells. il disait modestement qu’il subsistait dans certains « des éléments à ne pas irrémédiablement écarter du débat », Above all Jan collected coins and medals of John Paul son invitation à faire preuve d’imagination et à toujours II, and displayed them in at least two exhibitions at the chercher des voies novatrices. Son dernier écrit, dont il Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum (London): XV years n’a pas vu la parution dans la Revue Numismatique 2014, of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate in world numismatics p. 21-29, qui rendait hommage à l’œuvre monumentale and graphics (1993), and XXV years of the pontificate of de P. Bastien, revient sur cette incompréhension Pope John Paul II in world numismatics and photography supposée, mais pas tout à fait erronée, entre numismates (2003), under the patronage of the Duke of Norfolk. He et historiens. Jusqu’au bout, Jean-Pierre Callu aura published a large medal showing him with the Pope. Jan souhaité une exploitation du matériel numismatique selon was the founder and for many years president of the John des interrogations complémentaires de celles propres de Paul II Foundation in London. He visited Rome in 2011 to la numismatique. support the Polish Pope’s canonisation, but died before it came to pass. Michel Amandry R. H. Thompson

NB Les citations de ce texte sont extraites de la L’épée de Monsieur Jean-Pierre Callu, Hôtel de la Monnaie, 21.X.1996 (Cahors, France Quercy, 1997). Important notice Jan Janus Krasnodębski (1930-2013) The General Meeting of the INC will take It is dismaying to discover that Jan Krasnodębski died on 11 May 2013, without any report to the numismatic place in Taormina on Sunday, September community. He lived alone in West London, having a sister 20. Only members who have paid their in , a brother in Chicago, and a niece in Kiev, subscription up to and including 2015 consequently nobody was in touch with his numismatic will be able to vote (see Art. 4 of the INC contacts. Constitution). Jan was born in Natalin, eastern , on 12 January 1930, and was interested in numismatics from the age of 7. The Russian invasion propelled his mother and his siblings to the Soviet Union 1940-42, Iran 1942-44, and Information importante (by walking) to Palestine, where he joined the Polish Army Cadet School (1944-47). Thence he went to England in L’Assemblée Générale du CIN aura lieu 1947, attaining the rank of Army Captain after parachute le dimanche 20 septembre à Taormine. training. The exploits of his uncle Zdzisław Krasnodębski Seuls les membres qui sont à jour de leur in command of the Kościuszko Squadron were recounted by Lynne Olson & Stanley Cloud in A Question of Honor cotisation, y compris pour 2015 peuvent (2003; For your Freedom and ours in the UK). Once he voter (Art. 4 de nos Statuts). suffered the indignity of being phoned by some popular radio programme to be congratulated on bearing the

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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 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 2015 after examining the applications in consultation with specialists from the INC or others if necessary.

La bourse annuelle du CIN 2015-2016

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.

Das Reisestipendium des INR 2015-2016

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.

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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.

Beca de estudio anual CIN 2015-2016

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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Editors Sylviane 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.

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