The abstracts for the International Numismatic Congress have just been uploaded. Here they are, as a single PDF
http://www.xvcin.unime.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ABSTRACTS-of-papers-posters-and-Round-Tables-2.pdf
I read through and marked which talks particularly interested me. Some in areas that I know absolutely nothing about (Free bronze currency in Han China, post-war banknote design in Eastern Europe, the significance of the Crab on ancient Greek coinage), and others in areas close to or right in my street. I marked 66 (out of 400+) and will now work up a schedule to bounce me between the 8 simultaneous conference rooms, and the 'poster' sessions area. OK 66 talks isn't going to happen except through a scheduling miracle, but choosing from the menu will be fun.
I guess few will have downloaded this list of abstracts, perhaps partly based on the tone of the discussion above it, but I'll soldier on in attempting to generate interest in this event: From the list of abstracts I've made my own selection of those talks I'm likely to attend, 35 in all - out of 400 odd talks - this ratio being inevitable given there are 9 parallel conference rooms.
Here's my personal list. There are additionally at least a dozen big regrets as I can't be in two places at once. The list is in chronological order, so I won't have to wait long before hitting the
red wine.
Travaini: Mints as Volcanoes: Fire and Technology
McCabe:
Roman Struck Bronze Coinage in South East
Italy during the Second Punic War
Barbato:
Roman Republican coins from modern excavations of the Largo Argentina (
Rome)
Bransbourg: The Currency Rates of the
Roman RepublicRipolles: Unofficial
Roman Republican asses struck in
SpainMartin: Strangers in
Rome? ‘Foreign’ deities and the numismatic evidence
D’Angelo: Un lingotto con il segno del “ramo secco” dalla Pinacoteca Civica di Ascoli Piceno
Frey Kupper:
Historia Numorum,
Sicily and Adjacent Islands
Hoge: Dispersion and Denouement of the Archer Milton Huntington
CollectionKatz: Muttonis Mutunus: Q. Titius and the Case of the
Obverse Head (
RRC 341/1)
Hollstein: Zum Prägeort
des Sicinius/Coponius- Denars (
RRC 444)
Kousoulos: Unbearded
Hercules on the coins of the Sicilian cities in the late 5th c. BC
Moreno Pulido: Influencias sículo púnicas en la amonedación del Fretum Gaditanum
Arnold Biucchi: The meaning of the crab on ancient
Greek coins and its relation to ancient medicine
Berthold: The Horses of
MaroneiaTekin:
Pegasus or Hippalectryon: a creature on the coins of
Mysia and
TroasWolf (
Ulrike): Expressing power relations in the Western Mediterranean 5th to the 1st centuries BCE through coin iconography
Evans: What Archaeology Can Tell Us about the Date of the Opening of the Civic
Mint in
SardisKourempanas: The bronze coinage of the
roman quaestors of
MacedoniaLannin: Transitional
Obverse Die Linkages in
Seleucid Coinage
Vogt: To whom belong the coins?
Jewish coin
collections, the Third Reich and museums of today
Stahl: The
Antioch Excavation Coins Re-excavated
Zapolska: Late
Roman Deposits as a Perceptible Sign of Elusive Goldsmiths
Jankowski: Para-numismatics - Do all the coin related items deserve to be kept in a coin room?
Von Heijne: Spatial analysis as method for studying anonymous
medieval coin
Parisot: Ancient silver coinages between the Rhone and Po rivers: new data from elemental analyses
Ponting: The metallurgy of
Roman silver coinage:
Augustus to
CommodusPafford: Coins from the
Morgantina Thesauros – Reconsidered
Ilkic: South-Liburnian pre-imperial numismatic finds from southern
Italy and
SicilyBracey: How rapid was ancient coin production? The contribution of die studies
Guney: The
Roman Monetary Economy in
Bithynia during the second half of the first century BC
Chowaniec: The
history of ancient town Akrai/Acrae, south-eastern
Sicily, in the light of new numismatic finds
Gargano: Problemi e spunti dai rinvenimenti di monete negli scavi archeologici a Vibo
Valentia Birch: Coinage and development of bullion sources across the Western Mediterranean from the 5th to the 1st centuries BCE
Constantin: Information on silver and gold Dacian “
Koson” coins based on alloys composition
Hobbs: Silver plate as elite currency in the late
Roman Empire Others will have their own, no doubt totally different, lists.
Still, this is what I thought of as interesting. There's also a number of round table events - extended open discussions with some pre-programmed input. I may drop by, in my experience such discussions often prove more compelling than their agendas would suggest.
Andrew