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From: "Mike Reynolds" <agelessness@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: A Little-Bit-Off-topic--Ancient thru Renaissance Coins
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--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, John Lupia <jlupia2@...> wrote:
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> Salvete et Valete Micaelis:
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> The design of the search engine was dominated by
> ancient numismatic with virtually no regard for US
> colonial coins. There is Caesarea Cappadocia and
> Caesarea Maritima, Syria, but no Nova Caesarea!
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> Valete,
> Johannes
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> --- Mike Reynolds <agelessness@...> wrote:
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> > Thanks John. Filling in US and copper yields some of
> > their colonials.
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> > http://libweb5.princeton.edu/numismatics/db.aspx
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> > Mike
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> > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, John Lupia
> > <jlupia2@> wrote:
> > >
> > >=20
> > > Good Morning Community:
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> > > I thought most would find this article
> > interesting,
> > > especially in lieu of the fact they mention their
> > U.S.
> > > colonial coin collection.
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> > > John
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> > > Princeton acquires collection of Greek coins
> > > Wednesday, January 16, 2008
> > > BY ROBERT STERN
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> > > http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-
> > 4/1200460265238750.xml&coll=3D5
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> > > PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Princeton University shelled
> > out
> > > hundreds of thousands of dollars in November to
> > get
> > > less than a thousand coins from a London-based
> > > businessman.
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> > > The university's move wasn't some dramatic hedge
> > > against the sinking value of the dollar.
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> > > Rather, it was done to make Princeton the premier
> > > public research repository of Greek coins from the
> > > late Middle Ages, said Alan Stahl, curator of the
> > > university's numismatic collection. (Numismatics
> > is
> > > the
> > > study or collection of coins, tokens and paper
> > money.)
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> > > Princeton made the purchase of the more than 800
> > > medieval Greek coins to help researchers deepen
> > their
> > > knowledge about a period of Middle Age history
> > that
> > > has been little understood by scholars be cause of
> > a
> > > dearth of primary historical accounts from that
> > time,
> > > Stahl said.
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> > > Until now, there has been no specialized
> > collection
> > > of the coins of the Greek lands of the later
> > Middle
> > > Ages -- the 13th and 14th centuries -- available
> > for
> > > study in a public institution anywhere, he said.
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> > > The seller, London businessman Theo Sarmas, had
> > > assembled the collection gradually as a hobby over
> > the
> > > past 20 years or so -- acquiring them mainly from
> > > English dealers and through auctions, Stahl said.
> > Most
> > > of the coins are silver or a silver-copper alloy
> > > called
> > > billon.
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> > > But the collection also includes a few dozen gold
> > > coins -- generally its most valuable pieces --
> > such as
> > > one depicting Dorino Gattilusio, lord of Lesbos
> > and
> > > Ainos from 1400 to 1449, which imitates the
> > popular
> > > gold ducat of Venice.
> > >=20
> > > That coin identifies Gattilusio as "Duke of
> > > Mytilene," kneeling in front of a saint on one
> > side.
> > > The re verse depicts a standing figure of Christ.
> > >=20
> > > The Sarmas specimen is the only known example of
> > the
> > > coin with an "M" beneath the standard, apparently
> > an
> > > identification of the place of its minting, he
> > said.
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> > > The collection is rich in currency that imitates
> > > important trade coins of Italian cities,
> > especially
> > > those of Venice and Naples.
> > > Princeton learned that Sarmas would be willing to
> > > part with his collection for the right price after
> > > Sarmas let a couple of coin dealers know that he
> > would
> > > entertain offers.
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> > > Stahl won't specify how much Princeton paid other
> > than
> > > to describe the purchase as "well in the six
> > figures."
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> > > Princeton's numismatic collection bought the coins
> > > with matching funds from the university's program
> > in
> > > Hellenic studies, which contributed with money
> > from
> > > the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, established
> > at
> > > Princeton to promote the understanding of Greek
> > > culture.
> > >=20
> > > The coins were minted in the lands of the eastern
> > > Mediterranean in the 13th and 14th centuries
> > following
> > > the fall of Constantinople by armies of the Fourth
> > > Crusade.
> > >=20
> > > "This makes Princeton an unrivaled resource for
> > the
> > > study of a coinage about which there are many
> > > unanswered questions," Stahl said.
> > >=20
> > > The largest part of the collection features coins
> > of
> > > the rulers of mainland Greece in the late Middle
> > Ages,
> > > primarily members of the Villehardouin family of
> > > Athens and the Angevin rulers of the Peloponesus.
> > >=20
> > > Princeton's numismatic collection was started in
> > 1849
> > > when friends of the university bought and donated
> > > plaster casts of Greek and Roman coins. Today, it
> > has
> > > vast holdings of ancient Chinese, Greek and Roman
> > > coins and includes others from the Byzantine,
> > Western
> > > medieval and U.S. Colonial eras.
> > >=20
> > > Part of the collection is on display in the
> > > university's Firestone Library as its "Numismatics
> > in
> > > the Renaissance" exhibition, which is on view for
> > free
> > > to the public through July 20 in the library's
> > main
> > > exhibition hall. The Sarmas coins are not part of
> > that
> > > showcase because they are being catalogued for the
> > > university.
> > >=20
> > > But Princeton's numismatic collection is available
> > for
> > > research to the public and scholars at the
> > university.
> > > To view the online data base, visit
> > www.princeton.edu/
> > > rbsc/department/numismatics/.
> > >=20
> > > To make an appointment for viewing specific items
> > from
> > > the collection, including the Sarmas coins,
> > contact
> > > Stahl at astahl@
> > >=20
> > > Contact Robert Stern at rstern@ or (609)
> > 989-5731.
> > >=20
> > > John N. Lupia III
> > > New Jersey, USA; Beirut, Lebanon=20
> > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News/
> > > God Bless Everyone
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> > >=20
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> >
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