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The committee of the XIV
International Numismatic Congress is pleased to announce
that proposals for lectures and poster
presentations are now invited. Please visit
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/inc-congress/papers.htm
for further details
The 2008 Meshorer Numismatic Prize Award Ceremony
On April 3, 2008, the
Ya'akov
Meshorer Numismatic Prize for 2008 was conferred upon Professor Michael
Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of Numismatics at Oxford University at the
Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Professor Metcalf, one of the
world's leading numismatists, was keeper of the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean
Museum in Oxford, former President of the Royal Numismatic Society, and
editor of the Numismatic
Chronicle.
Following the ceremony, held in the presence of the British Ambassador to
Israel, the Hon. Tom Phillips, Professor Metcalf gave a lecture on
"Numismatics for Tomorrow." The Prize is named for Prof. Ya'akov Meshorer
(1935-2004), one of the foremost specialists of ancient Jewish coinage, who
established the Museum's Department of Numismatics in 1969 and stood at its
helm until 1993. Through Meshorer's tireless efforts, the Israel Museum now
holds one of the most important collections of ancient Jewish coins in
the world, as well as an impressive collection of Islamic gold coins and
a significant group of Roman Provincial coins of Palestine.
Professor Metcalf receiving the prize. At left Haim Gitler, president of the
INS; at right James Snyder, director of the Israel Museum.
One day earlier, Michael Metcalf addressed INS members in a
special lecture on The Progress of Crusader Numismatics. In his
introduction of the speaker, Robert Kool of the INS listed all the
guest's achievements in numismatics.
New book
ANCIENT SCALE WEIGHTS and Pre-Coinage Currency
of the Near East
By David Hendin
More than 450 ancient weights and pieces of pre-coinage
currency have been cataloged and described by David Hendin,
author of the bestselling Guide to Biblical Coins,
Not Kosher: Forgeries of Jewish and Biblical Coins,
Collecting Coins, and many other books. No collection of
ancient weights of this breadth and depth has ever been
published in a single volume. It contains more than 100
pages of Hendin's never-before-published material about
weights and pre-coinage currency, based on the examples in
his collection. He consolidates a great deal of relevant
scholarship, with extensive references, and places it in a
context most useful to non-specialists. This book is an
essential reference for curators, field archaeologists,
collectors, biblical historians, and others who would like
to understand the evolution and use of pre-coinage currency
and ancient scale weights of the Near
East. 240 pages, 6 x 9 inch hardcover.
Two years after Prof.
Ya'akov Meshorer passed away, Yad Ben Zvi has published a book
in Hebrew
based on a manuscript on which he worked for many years, especially
during his sabbatical at the Bibliotèque Nationale de France. This
publication is of interest not only to Numismatists
but to anyone who wants to read some fascinating stories about the
history of ancient Israel and unusual stories related to coins from all
periods, stories which Yankele gathered for
more than 40 years and for
which he had a special gift in telling.
We have reached
an agreement with Yad Ben Zvi which will give a significant
discount to the members of the INS, thus instead of the normal
price 150 NIS plus shipping 15 NIS, they will sell the book for
85 NIS including postal charges. This offer is valid until the
end of August. Members who wish to purchase the book should send
an e-mail to the Yad Ben Zvi representatives at:
they should mention
that they are INS members in order to get the special discount
rate.
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