The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 25, June 20, 2004, Article 23

FEATURED WEB SITE

  This week's featured web site is something I've discovered
  a bit late.  It's about a 27 December, 2002 - October, 2003
  at the Hermitage Museum titled "Jacob Reichel: Medallist,
  Collector, Scholar"

  "The new exhibition is dedicated to the acquisition by the
   Hermitage of the numismatic collection of J.J. Reichel, a
  major collector, medallist and designer of the St. Petersburg
  Mint (1760-1856). When the hereditary medallist (his father
  Johann Jacob Reichel was medallist at the Warsaw Mint
  under King Stanislaw August Poniatowski) came to St.
  Petersburg, he was in 1799 admitted to the Medal Class of
  the Academy of Arts.  In 1802 he became student at the St.
  Petersburg Mint and in 1808 was appointed medallist of the
  Mint's Medal Chamber."

  "In the 1820s, Jacob Reichel started to collect Russian and
  West European coins and medals which he purchased at
  international auctions and from famous Russian and West
  European numismatists with many of whom he corresponded.
  Reichel's collection became renowned due to its catalogue in
  nine volumes published by its owner."

  www.hermitagemuseum.org

 Wayne Homren
 Numismatic Bibliomania Society

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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