Numismatics of the Bosporan Kingdom: old riddles and new discoveries

19.07.2017

July 27, 2017, 19:00, Hall 29.

Lecture accompanying the exhibition "Panticapaeum and Phanagoria. The Two Capitals of the Bosporan Kingdom"

"Numismatics of the Bosporan Kingdom: old riddles and new discoveries".

Lecturer Keeper of the Coins-and-Medals Dept. Dr Segei Kovalenko.

Program of lectures accompanying the exhibition “Sveonum monumenta vetusta. The Numismatic Collection of Elias Brenner (1647-1717) and Pavel Grigorievich Demidov (1738-1821)”

11.07.2017

Meetings with Julia Krasnobaeva, the curator of the exhibition, 19:00, hall 31

August 31, 2017
Life and work of Elias Brenner (1647–1717)

September 7, 2017
Elias Brenner as numismatist

September 14, 2017
Pavel Grigorievich Demidov (1738–1821): Life for enlightenment

September 21, 2017
The history of the numismatic collection of Elias Brenner and Pavel Grigorievich Demidov

September 28, 2017
Swedish medal art of the 16^th–18^th centuries

October 5, 2017
Poetry readings

October 12, 2017
Lecture “Sveonum monumenta vetusta”

Sylloge nummorum graecorum. Greek coins of Italy and Sicily. By Sergei A. Kovalenko. Rome: «LʼERMA» di BRETSCHNEIDER, 2017

11.07.2017

This volume is continuation of the series of catalogues describing coin collection of the Pushkin Museum in Sylloge format, which begun with publication of the ancient coins of the Black Sea Region (2011, 2014). The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts possesses the third largest numismatic collection in Russia, after the State Hermitage and Historical Museum (Moscow). It is the only museum institution in Russia today, which provides access to its coin collection for the international scholarly community by publishing it in well-established format giving image and detailed description of every coin. Coins of the Greek cities of Italy and Sicily form noticeable part of the collection of the ancient coins in the Pushkin Museum and comprise 766 specimens. Along with ordinary issues there are among them fine and quite rare pieces, which undoubtedly will attract interested attention of both, scholars and coin collectors.