Teacher
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MOLINARI MARIA CRISTINA
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The course aims at illustrating the methodologies of the discipline as a historical-archaeological source, while providing students with a historical outline of both the ancient pre-coinage and Greek and Roman coinage.
1. The numismatic source as a historical and archaeological discipline. Numismatic studies: from scholarly studies to modern numismatics. • The 14th -15th century: Petrarch, A. Fulvio, Budé, F. Orsini, Augustìn, Vico; observations on the collections of the 15th and 16th centuries. • The 17th and 18th centuries: the Roman great collectors (Gottifredi, Christina of Sweden, di Carpegna, Massimo) and the birth of the Vatican Coin Cabinet. The researches of Holste, Gottifredi, Patin, Vaillant, Bellori: the discovery of autoptical analysis. The cataloguing system before and after Eckhel. • The 19th and 20th centuries: Borghesi, Mommsen and Cavedoni: the definition of a coin dating method. The Roman collections of the Unification of Italy. The studies of the end of the century and the new reference catalogues (RIC, RRC, SNG, RPC). 2. Ancient coin production technique: casting and minting. 3. Monetary types and the importance of their significance. 4. The notion of propaganda: the various theories on the subject (Jones, Crawford, Sutherland, Zehnacker, Burnett, Hölscher). 5. Artistic aspects of the coins. 6. Coin weight and its implications. 7. Legal aspects of coin issues. 8. The mint of Rome. 9. Criteria for a monetary chronology. 10. Coin circulation. 11. Coin and stratigraphic excavation. 12. The fundamental steps in the historical evolution of money: • The preparatory stages of ancient currencies: notes on primitive and archaic economies. • The birth of the coin. • Elements of Greek numismatics. • Elements of Roman numismatics. 13. Numismatic material cataloguing training course.
In addition to regular lectures held in university classes, the course will include guided tours to the two public Coin & Medal Departments in Rome (Capitoline Museum and Roman National Museum), to the area under the church of St. Clement, where the mint of the imperial age is believed to have been located, and to the Biblioteca Angelica in order to examine some volumes and manuscripts related to the development of coin collecting and the numismatic antiquarian history.
The exam will consist of an oral test focused on questions, an indicative list of which will be provided to the students.
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