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 ...

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 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, ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...