National audience; Située sur la rive sud-ouest du lac Qaroun, l’ancienne cité gréco-romaine de Dionysias (actuelle Qaṣr-Qārūn) est célèbre pour son temple dédié au dieu crocodile Sobek. C’est là que furent découverts en 1948 quelque 15 000 moules en argile pour couler ...

This is a contribution relating to Celtic Numismatics in Europe with a reference to the main problems which arouse these mainly imitative emissions: chronological ones, the attribution of emissions to a given population, problems relating to technical and metallurgical ...

The paper tries to illustrate the development of studies on Roman Imperial Coinage in the Italian context in the last decades, in relation also to what happens in the same field in the international context. The most interesting contributions concern the edition and ana...

This article aims at presenting an overview of recent research on Numismatics of Magna Graecia. It is based on a critical reading of major themes and approaches to Greek coinage trough a wide range of contextual studies. The available quantity of data is increasing dail...

In difficult times for the humanities – and in particular for the antiquities – it is intended to present a reasoned note on the contribution that the study of coins brings today to historical and archaeological knowledge and on the situation, the critical points and th...

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 b...

With reference to the Italian scientific research the Author presents the development of studies on Sicilian numismatics starting from the pre-monetal phases to the early Roman-imperial age. The fil rouge of this data presentation largely coincides with the chronology o...

Medieval jettons or tessere mercantili are a class of material with still many aspects to be clarified, despite being studied since the 18th century. The lack of documentary sources and the still limited number of findings in archaeological contexts, in fact, make it di...