YALE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION GROWS Public Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 20, May 16, 2004, Article 5
YALE NUMISMATIC COLLECTION GROWS
"The acquisition of a collection of 4,100 coins of Greek and
Roman origin by the Yale University Art Gallery has been
announced by Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director,
who stated ?This collection, formed over a lifetime by one of
Europe's most eminent numismatic scholars, will significantly
enhance Yale's holdings of ancient coins and medals, already
one of the largest of any university collection in the country.?The collection was formed over a period of forty years by
Peter R.Franke, formerly Professor of Ancient History and
Numismatics and head of the Institute for Ancient History at
the University of Saarbrucken, Germany. Franke was mentor
to many of the numismatists on staff at various collections
throughout Europe, and taught until recently at the Institut für
Numismatik in Vienna.""The collection of coins at Yale goes back to the early nineteenth
century and as long ago as 1863 there was a publication of the
numismatic holdings. Over the years the collection has grown to
approximately 100,000 objects of all periods, of which roughly
25,000 are of the ancient world. These include not only coins
from Yale?s excavations at Dura-Europos, Syria, and elsewhere,
but donations from friends of Yale. The collection may be
consulted by appointment."To read the full press release, see:
Press Release[So does anyone know just where the Yale collection was
documented in 1863? Was it part of a University publication,
or a stand-alone catalog? -Editor]- 2004-05-16
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