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The Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (Brussels) organizes
a symposium on:
"The Transport of Coins through the Ages"
Friday May 20th 2005
Lucien de Hirsch conference room
The topic of this one-day conference shall be: "Transport
of coins through the ages". This looks as a neglected
albeit important question for which we aim to provide a diachronic
view inviting a panel of scholars, each one for a different period.
To quote some of the issues involved by this topic, it deals
with transport costs (how protected were such convoys ? how frequent ?),
the nature of mints (fixed or itinerant ?), the purpose of coinages
(commercial or military ?), or the economic rationality of
past societies.
The hope is to build, beyond anecdotes, a frame as
intelligible as we may for this truly historical phenomenon.
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Contact :
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François de Callataÿ
Royal Library of Belgium - Coin Cabinet -
Boulevard de l'Empereur 4, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium)
Tel.: ++/32/2/519.56.03 - Fax:++/32/2/519.56.02 -
francois.de.callatay@kbr.be
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Johan van Heesch
Royal Library of Belgium - Coin Cabinet -
Boulevard de l'Empereur 4, B-1000 Brussels (Belgium)
Tel.: ++/32/2/519.56.08 - Fax:++/32/2/519.56.02 -
johan.vanheesch@kbr.be
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Program
| 09:30 |
Welcome
in the Lucien de Hirsch conference room |
| 09.45 |
Introduction (F. de
Callataÿ and J. van Heesch)
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| 10:00 |
Le
transport des monnaies dans le monde grec
F. de Callataÿ (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) |
| 10:30 |
Geldtransport und Modelle
für den Geldumlauf von der Römischen Republik
bis zur Kaiserzeit: Das Zeugnis der schriftlichen Quellen
Reinhard Wolters (University of Tübingen)
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| 11:00 |
Coffee break
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| 11:30 |
Transport of coins during the Late Roman
Empire
Johan van Heesch (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) |
| 12:00 |
Coins and communications in the Byzantine
world: the merchants' tale
Eurydice Georganteli (Museum of Birmingham)
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| 12:30 |
Lunch
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| 14:30 |
Voyageurs, convoyeurs et réseaux
financiers à la fin du Moyen Age, autour de quelques
exemples français
Marc Bompaire (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) |
| 14:00 |
Moving money around the world in the 18th
century. The example of the Dutch East-India Company
Arent Pol (Geld en Bankmuseum, Utrecht) |
| 15:30 |
The Transport of coins in China
Helen Wang (British Museum) |
| 16:00 |
Les transports
de fonds entre la Belgique et l'Etat Indépendant
du Congo au XIXe siècle… Quels fonds ?
Jacques Schoonheyt (Société royale de Numismatique
de Belgique)
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| 16:30 |
Coffee break
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| 17:00 |
Discussion
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The participation at this event is free of charge
but it is necessary to register as the Lucien de Hirsch conference
room is not too large.
If you want to take part at the official lunch with the speakers, we
would also appreciate it if you could let us know (since the number of
places is limited). Otherwise, the cafetaria of the Royal Library of
Belgium is a large self-service which affords different possibilities.
You may also be interested to know that the monthly meeting of
the Belgian Royal Numismatic Society shall be held the
day after our meeting on May 21th at 2.30 p.m. (in the
Lucien de Hirsch conference room as well).
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