Institutions and Individuals: The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9780367651831 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Krmnicek, Stefan

Opis

This second part of the 2 volume collection compromises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on 19th century academia and trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

Spis treści

1. Institutions and individuals—the numismatic world in the long 19th century: An introduction. 2. The coin collector Baron von Schellersheim (1752–1836). 3. Collectors and their coins—the sale of coins and medals at public auctions: The role that the Messrs. Christie played in the numismatic world in the early part of the ‘long 19th century’ (1766–1831). 4. Giacomo Verità, collector of coins and gems. 5. Domenico Promis (1804–1874), the Turin Royal Coin Cabinet and the birth of archaeological numismatics in Piedmont. 6. General Charles Richard Fox (1796–1873), coin collector. 7. From private collection to public museum—Nicola Bottacin (1805–1875), his numismatic collection and the birth of the Museo Bottacin of Padua (1865). 8. Western collectors of East Asian coins in the 19th century. 9. Chen Jieqi (1813–1884), a coin collector in 19th-century China. 10. A Collector at the periphery of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Ormós Zsigmond (1813–1894). 11. Jan Pieter Six, a numismatist revisited. 12. Franciszek Piekosiński (1844–1906), his collection of ancient coins, the National Museum and 19th-century Krakow. 13. Greek and Swiss coins: Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer’s networks in two scientific communities. 14. The Spöttl collection in the Vienna Museum. 15. August Numismatist—Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia (1863—1919): Fate and legacy. 16. Collector and dealer at the end of the long 19th century: Calouste Gulbenkian and Jacob Hirsch.