Conveners
S92. COLLECTIONS 2
- Paweł Gołyźniak (Jagiellonian University)
At various times over the years, the American Numismatic Society’s members and leaders have demonstrated an interest in Polish numismatics. One of the ANS’s early presidents built a sizeable collection of Polish coins and medals. It was loaned to the Society after his death but was withdrawn after a few years. For a while, the Polish section of the ANS’s cabinet was developed mostly through...
Coins not only have an ancient history, but a modern one. By the early 20th century, Samuel-Jean Pozzi (1846-1918) and Fenerly Bey (?-1911) had assembled important collections of ancient coins that are now scattered among various museums and private collections. These prominent men were both practitioners and teachers of gynecology and students of numismatics—thus, alike in their vocations and...
Two major trends have determined the work in museums in recent years: digitization and provenance research. Numismatic provenance research is currently mainly carried out by non-numismatists, though. On the one hand, these specialized provenance researchers use methods and sources that numismatists are not very familiar with and therefore may be expected to contribute potentially new insight....
