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Description: | Coins were issued in Greece from sometime in the late seventh century BC onwards. More perhaps than any other surviving evidence, they form a continuous thousand year narrative of the visual history of the Greeks of the Classical period, their forerunners and their descendants. This coinage has been the object of scholarly study for over 400 years and, as well as providing important evidence of the economic history of individual city states, it shows detailed information regarding development in both two dimensional and three dimensional representations. For Neo-Classical artists of the 18th century, coins, along with ceramics, would have provided some of the most readily available first hand evidence of Greek visual culture. (Morrison, 2002) The collection totals over 7273 coins and the Newnham Davis collection comprises 490 coins which include coins from Asiatic Greece, Syria, Mesopotamia; Babylonia and Egypt.
Super collection: Marischal Museum.
Sub-collection: Newnham Davis collection. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUA:CLD02 | Go to resource |
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