Greek mint

The Greek Mint was a research company of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , which was dedicated to the collection and edition of the ancient coins of northern Greece from the time between 550 BC. And 250 AD.

history

The Greek Mint was established at the instigation of the historian Theodor Mommsen in the 1880s at what was then the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Since 1888 there were contracts with freelancers who were dedicated to the corpus. Sources of this work were excerpts from catalogs and material collections The head of the project was Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer at Mommsen's suggestion . A full-time position was not established until 1901. Mommsen's claim to cover the entire Greek stock of coins quickly turned out to be impracticable. That is why the Greek Mint concentrates on the provinces of Dacia , Moesia , Thrace , Macedonia and Paionia , since individual published directories were already available from these areas, which enabled further indexing. After the reorganization of the Prussian Academy of Sciences into the German Academy of Sciences , the Greek Mint was assigned to the Institute for Greco-Roman Antiquity in 1956 and supervised by Günther Klaffenbach and Arthur Suhle . In the 1960s, the Berlin Academy worked with the Bulgarian and Romanian Academies on the project. From 1969 until the academy was dissolved in 1991, the Greek Mint was part of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology under the direction of Edith Schönert-Geiß .

After the dissolution of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, the subsequent Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences took over the project and set up a second full-time position in 1992, which was filled by Ulrike Peter . The editorial part of the project ended on December 31, 2003. Most recently, the project manager was Maria Radnoti-Alföldi , and since 1998 she has been the position manager in the successor to Edith Schönert-Geiß Ulrike Peter. A reproduction of the coins as digital copies is currently being prepared.

publication

The publications of parts of the Greek Mint initially appeared under the title The Ancient Coins of Northern Greece .

The ancient coins of Northern Greece , Berlin, Reimer
- Volume 1: The ancient coins of Dacien and Moesien , edited by Behrendt Pick and Kurt Regling
  - Half Volume 1, 1898
  - Half volume 2, section 1 The coins of Odessos and Tomis , 1910
- Volume 2: The ancient coins of Thrace , edited by Friedrich Münzer and Max L. Strack
  - Part 1, Book 1 The coins of the Thracians and the cities of Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos , edited by Max L. Strack, 1912.
- Volume 3: The ancient coins of Makedonia and Paionia , edited by Hugo Gaebler
  - The Macedonian national coins (including Amphaxitis and Bottiaia), provincial money (including Beroia) and coin-like coins of Macedonian origin, panels I – V , 1906
  - Blackboard. I-XL, 1935

The corpus work was not resumed until 1956. Since then the working title has been Greek Mint .

Greek Münzwerk , Berlin, Akademie-Verlag
- Edith Schönert : The coinage of Perinthos , 1965
- Edith Schönert-Geiß: The coinage of Byzantion, Part 1 Autonomous Time , 1970
- Edith Schönert-Geiß: The coinage of Byzantion, Part 2 Imperial Era , 1972
- Jordanka Jurukova : The coinage of Deultum , 1973
- Jordanka Jurukova: The Minting of Bizye , 1981

Edith Schönert-Geiß: Bibliography on ancient numismatics of Thrace and Moesia , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-05-003286-3 .

literature

Hans-Markus von Kaenel , Maria R.-Alföldi , Ulrike Peter u. a. (Ed.): Monetary History vs. Numismatics. Theodor Mommsen and the ancient coin. Colloquium on the occasion of the 100th year of death of Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, 1st – 4th May 2003, organized by Fundmünzen der Antiquity, Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and Greek Mint, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Akademie-Verlag 2004, ISBN 3-05-004042-4

Web links

The Greek Mint