A spectacular discovery in Spain: The Tomares Hoard
On the morning of 27 April, during maintenance works in a pipeline that runs underneath El Zaudín municipal park, in Tomares (Seville), the…
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Proceedings of conference on monetary circulation in Medieval period published
The proceedings of the international conference dedicated to the monetary circulation between the Swiss and Italian regions in the high Middle Ages have…
The Past Has a Future! 2021 – Faculty of Archaeology UW
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, SOFIA, BULGARIA, 10TH-12TH NOVEMBER 2020
BULLION TRADE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE, 15-16 October 2020
International Numismatic Council postpones the International Numismatic Congress to 2022
CALL FOR PAPERS – ‘The social production of money: archaeological perspectives’.
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University of Vienna seeking Professor of Numismatics & the History of Money
Open to new ideas. Since 1365. As a research university with high international visibility and a wide range of degree programmes, the University of…
Faces of Power-Call for Participants
Course contentLook at a coin in your hand, and you may see the face of a person. On modern euro coins, this person…
Doctoral Research Fellowship in Money and its use in the Middle Ages
A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) on the subject Money and its uses in Medieval Northern Europe (c.950-1350) is available at the Museum of…
The Institute for Classical Archaeology of the University of Erlangen and IHAC present the trilingual online numismatic exhibition “Scenarios of Power”
Bilder und Texte auf Münzen zeigen in erster Linie deren Echtheit und Prägeautorität an: Sie schützen vor Fälschungen. Zugleich sind sie weitaus mehr…
Online Zeitschrift zur Antiken Numismatik
Today communication and intellectual exchange take place digitally – and increasingly online. The number of museums and research institutes which display their holdings…
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SYLLOGE NUMMORUM GRAECORUM NETHERLANDS
Coins as a financial and economic phenomenon first appeared in the late 7thcentury BCE in Lydia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey), but it was…
Il fondo Varisco del Medagliere Vaticano, Medagliere della Biblioteca Vaticana IX.
Giampiccolo, Il fondo Varisco del Medagliere Vaticano, Medagliere della Biblioteca Vaticana IX. ISBN: 978-88-210-1015-6 Publisher: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Date of edition: 2018 Number of pages: 202 full…
The Vatican Medagliere is pleased to announce the publication of Historia Mundi, issue 8.
HISTORIA MUNDI. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. 2019 issue 8, 240 pp. full color ill. ISBN: 978-88-210-1022-4 It includes the following articles G. Alteri, Storia…
Der Rostocker Gelehrte Oluf Gerhard Tychsen
Rafael Arnold, Michael Busch, Hans-Uwe Lammel und Hillard von iessen (Hg.) 304 Seiten, Hardcover ISBN: 978–3–86525–699–7 29 Price: 50 € Oluf Gerhard Tychsen…
Second Edition of The Early Dated Coins of Europe, 1234-1500 by Robert A. Levinson
(Williston, Vermont) – The appearance of a date on a coin is something so obvious to the layman that it is taken for…
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Maria Radnoti-Alföldi (6.6.1926 – 7.5.2022)
On May 7th, 2022 Maria Radnoti-Alföldi peacefully passed away at home in Frankfurt, just short of her 96th birthday. Born in Budapest in…
University of Vienna seeking Professor of Numismatics & the History of Money
Anchoring Coins: Reframing the Coin Introduction of Ptolemaic Dynasty (PhD)
Associate Professor in Numismatics
Change at the British Museum: Philip Attwood retires after 41 years
Der Rostocker Gelehrte Oluf Gerhard Tychsen
A Life’s Work: The Rainer Opitz Collection “Reformatio in Nummis”
ANS Seeks Assistant Curator, American Dept.
Position Available at The Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1391 at the University of Tübingen
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University of Vienna seeking Professor of Numismatics & the History of Money
Open to new ideas. Since 1365. As a research university with high international visibility and a wide range of degree programmes, the University of…
NUMISMATISCHES SOMMERSEMINAR
Ein numismatischer Sommer in Wien 11. NUMISMATISCHES SOMMERSEMINAR am Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien 1.–12. August 2022 Das Institut für Numismatik…
Faces of Power-Call for Participants
Course contentLook at a coin in your hand, and you may see the face of a person. On modern euro coins, this person…
Doctoral Research Fellowship in Money and its use in the Middle Ages
A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) on the subject Money and its uses in Medieval Northern Europe (c.950-1350) is available at the Museum of…
The Institute for Classical Archaeology of the University of Erlangen and IHAC present the trilingual online numismatic exhibition “Scenarios of Power”
Bilder und Texte auf Münzen zeigen in erster Linie deren Echtheit und Prägeautorität an: Sie schützen vor Fälschungen. Zugleich sind sie weitaus mehr…
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University of Vienna seeking Professor of Numismatics & the History of Money
Open to new ideas. Since 1365. As a research university with high international visibility and a wide range of degree programmes, the University of…
Change at the British Museum: Philip Attwood retires after 41 years
Philip Attwood is leaving the British Museum on 1st May after forty-one years in the Department of Coins and Medals, including ten years…
The Bibliothèque nationale de France reports missing Roman gold jewels.
The Bibliothèque nationale de France has reported three missing Roman gold jewels made of aurei of Postumus in gold mounts. They are part…
Bruschi Foundation inaugurates Numismatic Section
Arezzo, 21 giugno 2019 – Da oggi è aperto al pubblico il nuovo e originale allestimento della sezione numismatica della Fondazione Ivan Bruschi,…
Alchemical Gold Coin Back in Weimar
In an official celebration, Ulrich Künker returned an unpublished specimen of the golden so-called “Alchemistentaler” to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The coin had…