Proceedings of a Theme Day on Early Modern Knowledge on Numismatics at the Gotha Research Centre (University of Erfurt)

Abstract

On January 18^th 2024, the results of current research projects on coins as objects of early modern knowledge were presented at the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt: topics were the coin drawings and descriptions executed by the antiquarian Jacopo Strada in the 16^th century, which have been studied by Volker Heenes and Dirk Jacob Jansen; the impact of numismatics on the research of avantgardistic erudites in the 17^th and 18^th century, which has been investigated by Martin Mulsow; and a polemic scholarly argument about the authenticity of an arguably antique coin, which took place in 18^th century’s Vienna and has been reconstructed by Bernhard Woytek.