NO VACANCIES! The Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia organizes this course to spread the bases of the documentation of the ancient numismatics. The course has a duration of 15 hours divided in 5 sessions. In the first class will be explained the methodological bases of the discipline like, for example, the production of cards of coins or how it is necessary to interpret the monetary exchequers. The three other meetings consist of two parts: theoretical lessons concerning the Greek numismatics, roman republican, Hispanic Roman and imperial Roman, and practical meetings of identification and classification of each one of these monetary series from the original pieces and the library of the Cabinet. The last session is an theoretical approach and practical of analysis not destructive of metals with X-rays. 

PROGRAMME OF THE COURSE

Coordinator: Albert Estrada-Rius, Curator of the Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia

Tuesday on March 29: Questions of methodology

Tuesday on April 5: The Greek currency and the Roman republican

Tuesday on April 12: The currency of Hispania

Tuesday on April 19: The currency of the Roman Empire

Tuesday on April 26: The metal of the currency, identification for the analysis not destructive of X-rays

TEACHING STAFF

Dra. Marta Campo, Ex curator of the Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia

Dra. Maria Clua, Assistant of conservation of the Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia 

Dr. Ignasi Queralt, Investigative Scientist. Laboratory of Analytical Applications of X-rays - ICTJA/CSIC. Council of Cientific Research

Sr. Joan Pujol, Bachelor of Chemical Sciencies. Technical director, Fischer Instruments SA
 

With the collaboration of