Conveners
S93. HISTORY OF COLLECTING
- Daniela Williams (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The monastery was founded in 1114 on the site of a Roman camp by Margrave Leopold III of Babenberg and his wife, the Salic Princess Agnes of Waiblingen at their residence in Klosterneuburg.
Right from the very beginning the monastery was a place of scholarship and learning, as is well documented by its sizeable library, and interest taken by the canons in coins and medals. The regularly...
After the publication of ancient coins in this collection, the focus shifted to the treatment of modern coins and medals. The publication in a form valid at the time – that of a printed book - is now almost obsolete, and the internet is becoming the medium of choice. Before that, however, one has to consider how to arrange the objects of the collection in boxes in the first place. We have put...
In the last 200 years significant numismatic collections have been established in Lower Austria. Museums, archives, monasteries and the “Landessammlungen Niederösterreich“ own jointly more than 300,000 objects of different age. In addition to the purchased and donated items there are also coin finds. In spite of this abundance of material it is hardly used in scientific works due to the fact...
Marcel Jungfleisch, a famous numismatist who lived in Cairo in the first half of the 20th century, made an impressive work of collecting data on coin collectors. His work, held by the Institut français d’archéologie orientale in Cairo, consists of 17,461 paper cards representing about 16,000 individuals with information (for part of them) such as their birth and death dates, place of...
