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 ...

This paper focuses on the most recent essays on the first roman silver coinage, especially on the volume by F. Coarelli Argentum signatum and the debate about the same topic, among him and other scholars. After a brief ...

The main objective of this essay is to comment upon the modes of production and the datings of the 5th century BC non-fractional silver coinage bearing the Greek legend ΠΑΝΟΡΜΟΣ (and variants) and the Punic legend ṣyṣ. The ...

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 importane. The characteristics of the find point out ...

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 aim of this paper is to outline a short history of the Italian Numismatic studies from the end of the Second World War to the eighties. The research lines of the discipline are investigated, and the historical-economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...