Ancient Numismatics

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01010960
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Mandatory attendance

The class will have an introductory theoretical component and a continuous practical component. Existing materials from the Archaeological Institute will be used.

Attendance and participation are required to pass this class.

Learning Outcomes

Students will learn how to classify ancient coins and relate them to the monetary systems they belong to and where they were minted and circulated. They will also learn the potential information that coins from archaeological sites or treasures can provide. Students will also learn to master coin and monetary system vocabulary. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The origin of currency

2. Pre-monetary objects: types and functions

3. Definition of currency

4. Monetary systems

5. The first coins: metrology, metals and characters

6. The manufacturing techniques of coins: smelting and minting

7. Collections and coins

8. Metrology and Characteroscopy

9. Currency in Hispania: geography and metrology

10. The roman coin

10.1. Republican monetary system

10.2. Monetary systems of the Empire

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Conceição Lopes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Grierson Ph., (1976), Monnaies et monnayage. Introduction à la numismatique, Paris.

 

Le Rider G.,(2001), La naissance de la monnaie. Pratiques monétaires de l'Orient ancien, Paris, PUF.

 

RRC = Crawford M.H.,(1974), Roman Republican Coinage. I. Introduction and Catalogue; II. Studies, Plates and Indexes, 2 vol., Cambridge.

 

RIC = Mattingly H., Sydenham E.A., Sutherland C.H.V. [e.a.], (1923-1994), The Roman Imperial Coinage, Londres, 10 t.

 

RPC I = BURNETT, Andrew; AMANDRY, Michel; RIPOLLÈS ALEGRE, Pere Pau (1992) - Roman Provincial Coinage, I: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69). London: British Museum Press; Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale.

 

CNH = VILLARONGA, L. (1994), Corpus nummum Hispaniae ante Augusti aetatem. Madrid: José A. Herrero, S. A.

 

RIPOLLÈS ALEGRE, Pere Pau ( 2010),  Las acuñaciones provinciales romanas de Hispania (Bibliotheca Numismatica Hispana; 8). Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia,. ISBN 978-84-96849-99-0.