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V20 2017 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 20, Number 34, August 20, 2017, Article 9

Robert H. Thompson of London Borough of Harrow mentions a useful book for numismatists and numismatic bibliophiles alike. Thank you! The title translates to Numismatics and Money History in the Age of Enlightenment. Contributions to the Symposium in the Residenzschloss Dresden, 4th - May 2009. New to us, the book was published in Vienna in 2015. Robert is the librarian of the British and Royal numismatic societies. -Editor

Numismatik und Geldgeschichte im Zeitalter der Aufklärung

The Austrian numismatic society in 2015 published in a splendid double volume of their proceedings of a Dresden symposium on 18th century numismatic literature, with these contributions in English:

Andrew Burnett, ‘The development of numismatics in Britain during the 18th century’, pp.29-41;

François de Callataÿ, ‘Vaillant, Frölich and the others...: the remarkable interest in Seleucid coinages in the 18th century’, pp.43-77;

Marco Callegari, ‘Self-promotion and erudition: numismatic publication in the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia during the 18th century’, pp.79-84;

David W. Dykes, ‘The eighteenth-century British trade token: the contemporary catalogues’, pp.157-92;

Giovanni Gorini, ‘The study of Greek numismatics during the 18th century in Italy’, pp.233-44;

Jørgen Steen Jensen, ‘The development of the Copenhagen cabinet in the middle of the 18th century...’, pp.343-9;

Janjaap Luijt, ‘Nicolas Chevalier (1661-1720), coin dealer and numismatist’, pp.351-63;

Hugh Pagan, ‘The role of the Society of Antiquaries of London in the advancement of numismatic research during the eighteenth century’, pp.365-93;

Robert H. Thompson, ‘Thomas Snelling, senior (1712-1773), and other scholarly coin dealers’, pp.479-99.

There are contributions also in French, German, and Italian to: Numismatik und Geldgeschichte im Zeitalter der Aufklärung: Beiträge zum Symposium im Residenzschloss Dresden, 4.-9. Mai 2009 = Numismatische Zeitschrift 120./121. Band, herausgegeben von Heinz Winter und Bernhard Woytek (Wien, 2015).