Giovanni Dattari
Giovanni Dattari (born April 19, 1853 in Livorno , † February 18, 1923 in Cairo ) was an Italian coin and antique dealer and numismatist .
life and work
After his father's death, Dattari's family moved to Egypt in 1875, where he was successful as an antique dealer and coin dealer in Cairo. Between 1891 and 1903 Dattari amassed a coin collection of over 25,000 ancient coins. His collection of 6,411 coins from the Alexandria Mint, which Dattari in 1901 in his Numi Augg work, was significant. Alexandrini. documented. In 1920 Dattari donated large parts of his collection to the Museo Nazionale Romano . After his death, the rest of the collection went on sale. Dattari was married and had two children.
When the Abukir medallions were found in 1902 and five of them were acquired by the Berlin Münzkabinett , Dattari questioned the authenticity of the medallions, which Heinrich Dressel , director of the Münzkabinett, rejected.
Dattari made of all his Alexandrian coins pencil Abpausungen, which exist today and 2007 by Adriano Savio published
collection
- Monete imperiali greche. Numi Augg. Alexandrini , Cairo, 1901.
Web links
- Obituary at the Italian Numismatic Society (Italian)
- Some objects traded by Giovanni Dattari that are now all in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore are
Individual evidence
- ^ Review in Swiss Numismatic Review , Volume 81, 2002
- ↑ The Abukir medallion in the Berlin Museum Bode
- ↑ I venti medaglioni d'Aboukir .. , Milano, 1908
- ^ Journal of Numismatics , Volume 27, 1909, Errata Corrige.
- ↑ Catalogo della collezione Dattari, Numi Augg. Alexandrini , Adriano Savio, Trieste, 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dattari, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian numismatist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livorno |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1923 |
| Place of death | Cairo |