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Im Auge des Löwen: ikonologische Beobachtungen an frontalen Löwendarstellungen auf antiken Münzen

open access: yesGephyra, 2023
This article provides an overview of the most important coin types depicting frontal lions from the Greek Archaic period to the first century BC. The spear-biting lions are not included in this paper as they form the subject of a separate study. Starting
Florian Haymann
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 119-127, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has
Suchintan Das
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking the Tradition. The Exceptional Coinage in the Name of Claudius Hestiaios and its Relationship to the first Neocorate of Cyzicus

open access: yesGephyra, 2020
No name of the officials mentioned on the coins of Cyzicus in Roman imperial period caused such problems in research as that of Claudius Hestiaios: Thus, three different issues can be identified for this name, which, roughly dated, fall within a possible
David Hack
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
wiley   +1 more source

Coin hoard from the rescue archaeological excavations at site 11Б — Chukovezer village Dragoman municipality. Comparative analysis with coin hoards from the region of the Southwestern Bulgaria

open access: yesМатериалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2020
This paper focuses on coin hoard found in a ceramic vessel during rescue archeological excavations in Chukovezer village, Dragoman municipality, Sofia district.
Borislavov Borislav   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
wiley   +1 more source

Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 203-226, October 2025.
How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
André de Melo Araújo
wiley   +1 more source

Ad Memoriam A. G. Mukhamadiev (1933–2018)

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2018
In obituary the main milestones of scientific creativity of Azgar Gataullovich Mukhamadiev – Dr. habil., honored Professor of Kazan University, Сorresponding Ьember of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, prominent numismatist, archaeologist, historian are
Nedashkovsky Leonard F.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coins in the Classroom – Teaching Group Work with Roman Coins

open access: yesThe Journal of Classics Teaching, 2020
It can be challenging to bring material culture to life in the classroom when the cultures that produced those materials are separated from the students by time and space.
Gwynaeth McIntyre   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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