The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 6, February 6, 2005, Article 21

PETER PAUL REUBENS, NUMISMATIST

In the past, we've discussed famous numismatists.
Arthur Shippee pointed out a brief (ok, VERY brief)
mention in a recent New Yorker article that Old Master
artist Peter Paul Reubens was a numismatist. Can
anyone confirm this? What did Reubens study or collect?
Is there any more information available on his numismatic
interests?

"As an adroit diplomat for the Spanish Netherlands,
fluent in five languages, Rubens worked to reconcile
kingdoms riven by religious wars; he also found time to
be, among other things, a courtier, a scholar, an architect,
a pageant master, a family man, an art collector, and a
numismatist."

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