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This is a survey of numismatic research on Punic coinage in Italy conducted in the twenty years. The Carthaginian series in Sicily, in the islands of the Strait of Sicily, in Sardinia and the Italian Peninsula date from the end of the 5th century B.C. to 211 B.C. They begin with the coins of Phoenician tradition minted by Motya, Panormos ans Solus and end with the series that circulated during Hannibal’s campaing in Italy. This review has made it possible to reexamine topics that are still open to investigation, including, in particular, the identification of Italian and island mints in relation to the monetary policy of the Carthaginian motherland.

The aim of this paper is to outline a short history of the ancient Numismatics studies in the 20th century and in the contury and in the context of the various ideologies. Special attention is given to the scholars influenced by the propaganda of the totalitarian regimes.

The Etruscan numismatics, with the exception of general catalogues (HN, EC, and ICC), is a research topic that has been mainly dealt with by italian scholars. After the international symposium organized in 1975 by the Centro Internazionale di Studi Numismatici, which saw the partecipation of outstading foreign scholars, the Etruscan numismatics became a theme mainly faces by italian researches, enough not to deserve a mention in the recent ‘Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage’. This article presents an overview of past research on Etruscan numismatics carried out over the last half century.

The new discovery of a coin hoard in a rural area of eastern Veneto's region, turned on the spotlight on an area that in ancient times must have been of considerable importance. The characteristics of the find point out significant interpretative elements and connote interesting implications that contribute to review the approach with which we have so far dealt with the study of the economic and monetary history of Roman Venetia, suggesting an overhaul of the acquired convictions.

This paper offers overview of the Italian contributions to the field of Arabic Numismatics and of the history of collecting Arabic coins in Italy since 1871 to date. It ends with some thoughts on the future of the studies of Arabic Numismatics in Italy. Divided in four chronological sections – 1871-1922; 1922-1945; 1945-1999; 2000-2020 – the article records both the creation (and dispersal) of private and public collections of Arabic coins and Italian schoarly contributions to this field, as well as the studies of numismatic evidence found in Italy. Through this, it is possible to get a first glimpse on the history of this specific branch of the Numismatic studies during the period taken into account.

Recensione dell'importante II volume della serie RPC che tratta della monetazione provinciale romana da Vespasiano a Domiziano.

The authors present the “CAIE” project, carried out at the Istituto per l'archeologia etrusco-italica of the Italian CNR. The aim of the project is the computerisation of the Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae, with the use of an Information Retrieval System, and the association between texts and archaeological and epigraphical information, such as place and way of finding, support object, technical characteristics, chronology and bibliographical references. The choice of the program FUL/TEXT, implemented for IBM PC, is related to the facility of organising the data both in fixed fields, useful for recording archaeological and epigraphical information, and in free format, useful for recording texts. A personalisation of the program was also implemented, above all for solving the problems presented by the Etruscan language. Data bank consultation is foreseen and will allow interrogations to be made also by unspecialised users.

The CAIE project aims to create a database collecting all the Etruscan monuments with inscriptions and to give, at the same time, critical importance not only at the text but also at the extra-linguistic context (i.e. elements regarding the origin and characteristics of the inscribed object, graphic peculiarities etc.). The purpose is a new and complex collection of Etruscan texts which, taking advantage of the power of computer databases, can deal at the same time with both information about the monument and its inscriptions; therefore, the program FUL/TEXT has been chosen, as an Information Retrieval System, duly adapted to the graphic particularities of the Etruscan language. At present about 5000 out of 10,000 so far known documents have been already recorded on file.

This paper deals with the theoretical aspects of the manufacturing of study models through computer database programs for the instrumentum domesticum, especially in the field of Roman amphora stamps epigraphy. The stamps from the Dressel 20 amphora (Spanish olive-oil typology), of which we have thousands of examples spread principally over Rome and Western Europe, have been used as documentary information to compose the theoretical criteria. The proposed concepts for the study of stamps are the following: the "concept structure", which serves to codify and group the stamps according to their graphical image; the "concept codex" aims to codify and analyse the present elements on every stamp; the "concept family of stamps" allows to relate family groups of stamps (like variants of individuals, a workshop, or a production region). The proposed model can be used for every type of amphora stamp. We, however, recommend to principally use it on the information obtained from workshop regions, the only site from which we can decipher the complex meaning of the stamp text.