XVI International Numismatic Congress

Session

S97. COINING TECHNIQUES

S97

16 Sept 2022, 14:00

Old Library - Hall 115-116

Conveners

S97. COINING TECHNIQUES

• Thomas Faucher (Centre D'études Alexandrines, CNRS)

176. From copper to coins: the technological skills of an ancient manufacturing process.

Alexandre Bodet (IRAMAT-CRP2A (Institut de Recherche en ArcheoMATériaux-Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l’Archéologie) - Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

16/09/2022, 14:00

oral presentation

Compared to studies that already have tackled this topic, but only for a specific coinage or period, our sample of coins (more than 150 specimens from around the Mediterranean Sea and struck between 5th c. BC and 3rd c. AD) adds to our understanding of different coin manufacturing processes on a large geographical and chronological scale. These data will help to refine the quantification of...

37. Flan Fabrication and Minting Preparation for Copper Alloy Coins in Antiquity

Jean Hourmouziadis (Münzkabinett Berlin ), Nikolai Ilieff

16/09/2022, 14:20

on-line oral presentation

Traces of working on cast flans for bronze coins were observed at first on Ptolemaic issues of the 3rd – 1st century BC. The traces consist of a centering mark and concentric grooves.
During the late 2nd and the 1st century BC irregular straight grooves appeared on the copper alloy coins of the Pontic Kingdom. Based on experiments made by the authors and other characteristics they were...

94. The slow but steady diffusion of minting presses in the 16th century

Jos Benders (NTNU & KU Leuven )

16/09/2022, 14:40

oral presentation

The literature on the use of early minting presses is highly scattered. The basis for the most recent overview in English is selective (Cooper, 1988), and omits many sources in German. This omission is serious, as minting presses were mainly developed in German-speaking regions. Many of these are included in an overview in German (Meding, 2016), yet this book does not cover the Baltic area....