Sep 11 – 16, 2022
University of Warsaw
Europe/Warsaw timezone

The coins of Nicopolis ad Istrum kept the Medagliere of the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Sep 13, 2022, 2:00 PM
1h
University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw

Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 Warsaw

Speakers

Eleonora Giampiccolo (Vatican Apostolic Library) Giancarlo Alteri (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana)

Description

The coin Medagliere cabinet of the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan opened its doors to scholars on 3rd November 2015. Its collection includes more than 50,000 coins and medals. The opening marked the start of the work on cataloguing all the coins and medals of the Cabinet. The poster presents the core of the corpus of Roman Provincial coins of Nicopolis ad Istrum, a collection made unique not only by its quality, but also, and above all, by the quantity of this material which numbers almost a thousand pieces.

Primary authors

Eleonora Giampiccolo (Vatican Apostolic Library) Giancarlo Alteri (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana)

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