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Journal of Field Archaeology 40.2, 2015
The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) has launched multiple legal challenges aimed at undermining import restrictions on ancient coins into the United States in bilateral agreements with foreign countries. One key component of the ACCG's argument is that the State Department has inappropriately restricted certain types of coins according to where they were made rather than where they are found, as mandated by the 1983 Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act. Although the ACCG has thus far been unsuccessful, it has not been pointed out that existing import restrictions on coins, in fact, have been written to include coins that tended to circulate locally and that are found primarily within the borders of the country with which the bilateral agreement is made. The ACCG's argument is thus on shaky ground. As the ACCG continues to press ahead with new litigation, it is worth drawing attention to realities and probabilities of ancient coin circulation as they pertain to protected coins
2019
We would like to present nine articles by young researchers from Italy, Bulgaria, Austria, Latvia, and Poland concerning particular aspects of numismatics. The present publication is a summary of the Fourth International Numismatic and Economic Conference Pecunia Omnes Vincit held at the Emeryk Hutten-Czapski Museum and Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, 12-13 May 2017. The articles direct the reader’s attention to various issues involving aspects of numismatics such as propaganda, coin finds, circulation, forgery, and economics. The subject matter of this publication focuses mostly on aspects of antiquity, mediaeval and new ages periods.
Working Abstract: There has been considerable interest in the history of numismatics and coin collecting in recent years as evidenced by the publication of significant works on the subject, including The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Island: A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Burnett, 2020) and Ars Critica Numaria: Joseph Eckhel and the Transformation of Ancient Numismatics (Woytek and Williams, eds., 2022). An insufficiently discussed aspect of this history is the role of antiquarians known primarily for their contribution to the study of ancient art to the development of numismatics – in particular Greek numismatics – in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the foundations they laid for subsequent developments which culminated in Barclay V. Head’s Historia numorum (1887). This lecture will discuss aspects of the development of Greek numismatics at the turn of the nineteenth century by focusing on the contribution of some of the most distinguished antiquarians and art connoisseurs of the period, and the way that problems posed by the study of ancient art in turn stimulated important questions and advanced knowledge about Greek coins. Building on the work of François de Callataÿ and Andrew Burnett on the significance of coins to Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), generally regarded as ‘the father of art history and archaeology’, this lecture will shed new light on the contribution to the study of numismatics of antiquarians who followed on his footsteps, including Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751-1818), Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824), and Taylor Combe (1774-1826).
Rethinking Numismatics: the archaeology of coins.
This paper sets out to re-member coins into archaeological discourse. It is argued that coins, as part of material culture, need to be examined within the theoretical framework of historical archaeology and material-culture studies. Through several case studies we demonstrate how coins, through their integration of text, image and existence as material objects, offer profound insights not only into matters of economy and the ‘big history’ of issuers and state organization but also into ‘small histories’, cultural values and the agency of humans and objects. In the formative period of archaeology in the 19th century the study of coins played an important role in the development of new methods and concepts. Today, numismatics is viewed as a field apart. The mutual benefits of our approach to the fields of archaeology and numismatics highlight the need for a new and constructive dialogue between the disciplines. Keywords coins; historical archaeology; material culture; academic discipline; discourse; agency; materiality