Academia and Trade

The Numismatic World in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

Stefan Krmnicek, Hadrien Rambach

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000843118
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century.

In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of the 19th-century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient, medieval, and modern numismatics, and on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political, cultural, economic, and social changes of the era, this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics' contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century.

This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th -century history and the history of coins.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• 1 Academia and Trade—The numismatic world in the long 19th century: An introduction
• 2 Parva Burghesia: Two unpublished numismatic manuscripts by Bartolomeo Borghesi
• 3 Numismatics and collections in Southern Italy: Some case studies
• 4 Churchill Babington (1821–1889) and the Cambridge coin collection
• 5 Eugène Hucher (1814–1889), ‘hoards historian’
• 6 The beginnings of collecting and research into Byzantine coinage in 19th-century Italy
• 7 The small world of Byzantine coins at Parisian auction: Agents, collectors and value
• 8 Numismatics in Bulgaria during the 19th century
• 9 Collecting, learning and connecting: A case from 19th-century Sweden
• 10 The Delhaes collection: Relation between Vienna and Budapest
• 11 Dattàri and Egyptian numismatics
• 12 Reconstructing the provenance of the Chinese coin collection at KBR: A story of 19th-century collectors and gift-giving
• 13 Russian medallic art of the 19th century: Back to the national roots
• 14 Vercingetorix and national identity in 19th-century France
• 15 G. N. Olcott and the didactic importance of ancient coin collections
• 16 Evolution and revolution: Four sculptors and the 19th amendment
• Index