Tyll Kroha

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As a German numismatist, Tyll Kroha (* August 12, 1929 ; † April 2, 2015 ) was also a book author, auctioneer and, together with Günther Brockmann, founder and, from 1968 to 2014, head of the Kölner Münzkabinett , a coin dealer in Cologne .

His "Large Lexicon of Numismatics", first published in 1977, has been an important reference work for decades.

Kroha has built up the numismatic collection of the Kreissparkasse Köln for over 30 years since 1954 and directed the famous exhibition Das Fenster here . From 1977 to 1986 he was the second chairman of the Association of German Coin Dealers (VDDM) . Because of his special merits, the German Numismatic Society awarded him the Eligius Prize in 2002 .

Fonts

  • Piggy banks. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1959.
  • Max Miller: Ancient Coins. 2nd edition, revised by Tyll Kroha. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1963.
  • Collect coins. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1968.
  • Max Bernhart : Medals and Plaques. 3rd edition completely revised by Tyll Kroha. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1984.
  • Large encyclopedia of numismatics. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1997, ISBN 3-577-10554-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries of Tyll Kroha . Cologne city indicator . April 11, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  2. ^ The monetary history collection of the Kreissparkasse Cologne . Kreissparkasse Cologne . Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  3. ^ Fritz Rudolf Künker: Tyll Kroha (1929-2015) . CoinsWeekly. April 30, 2015. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kroha, Tyll
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1929
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2015