Faces of Power: Roman Gold Coins from the Victor A. Adda Collection

By: GITLER, HaimContributor(s): GAMBASH, GilMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Jerusalem The Israel Museum / Numismatica Ars Classica 2017 Edition: 1stISBN: 97888942200Subject(s): Coins, Roman | Gold coins--Rome | Gold coins--Rome--Exhibitions
Contents:
Table of Contents 7Contributors 9 Ayelet Shiloh Tamir Foreword 10 Haim Gitler Pre-Face 16 Arturo Russo The Victor A. Adda Collection - One of the Great Roman Gold Coin Collections of the Twentieth Century18 Giovanna Adda Coen The Victor A. Adda Collection - a Family Gift as a Token of Admiration and Friendship for the Israel Museum 24Selected Pages from Victor A. Adda's 1960 Handwritten Catalogue 40 Haim Gitler and Gil Gambash Introduction: the Aureus 46 Bernhard E. Woytek How it all Began: Roman Gold Coinage in the Republican Period, during the Dictatorship of Julius Caesar and in the Civil Wars 56 Rodolfo Martini Imperator Caesar Divi F. Avgvstvs - Tiberivs Clavdivs Caesar Avgvstvs Germanicvs: from the Period ofimperatores to the Age ofImperator 64 Andrew Burnett Claudius and Nero: the End of an Era 70 Gil Gambash and Haim Gitler Flavian Ambivalence 76 Bernhard E. Woytek Trajan's Gold Coinage: Some Points of Note 86 Richard Abdy Coins of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius in the Victor A. Adda Collection 98 Johan van Heesch Marcus Aurelius and Commodus: the Empire in the Face of Serious Challenges 108 Achim Lichtenberger and Markus Peter A New Dynasty: Septimius Severus and his Family 124 Michel Amandry The Creation of Gold Multiples in the Third Century under Severus Alexander128 Roger Bland Maximinus to Aemilian (235-253 CE): the End of the Augustan Coinage System 138 Jerome Mairat Crisis and Transition, 253-285 CE148 Cristian Ga?zdac The Tetrarchy: Do We All Look the Same? 156 Aleksander Bursche Medallions164 Matti Fischer Identity and Value: Interpreting Portraits on Coins from the Victor A. Adda Collection 196 Yaniv Schauer With a contribution by Jonathan Grimaldi Table of Roman Imperial Coins from the Original Victor A. Adda Collection (46 BCE-335 CE)250Scanned Plates of the Original 1986 Christie's Catalogue304Scale Images (2:1) of Coins from the Victor A. Adda Collection at the Israel Museum
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Temporary Exhibition Gallery, Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Archaeology Wing June 2017-June 2018.

Table of Contents 7Contributors 9 Ayelet Shiloh Tamir Foreword 10 Haim Gitler Pre-Face 16 Arturo Russo The Victor A. Adda Collection - One of the Great Roman Gold Coin Collections of the Twentieth Century18 Giovanna Adda Coen The Victor A. Adda Collection - a Family Gift as a Token of Admiration and Friendship for the Israel Museum 24Selected Pages from Victor A. Adda's 1960 Handwritten Catalogue 40 Haim Gitler and Gil Gambash Introduction: the Aureus 46 Bernhard E. Woytek How it all Began: Roman Gold Coinage in the Republican Period, during the Dictatorship of Julius Caesar and in the Civil Wars 56 Rodolfo Martini Imperator Caesar Divi F. Avgvstvs - Tiberivs Clavdivs Caesar Avgvstvs Germanicvs: from the Period ofimperatores to the Age ofImperator 64 Andrew Burnett Claudius and Nero: the End of an Era 70 Gil Gambash and Haim Gitler Flavian Ambivalence 76 Bernhard E. Woytek Trajan's Gold Coinage: Some Points of Note 86 Richard Abdy Coins of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius in the Victor A. Adda Collection 98 Johan van Heesch Marcus Aurelius and Commodus: the Empire in the Face of Serious Challenges 108 Achim Lichtenberger and Markus Peter A New Dynasty: Septimius Severus and his Family 124 Michel Amandry The Creation of Gold Multiples in the Third Century under Severus Alexander128 Roger Bland Maximinus to Aemilian (235-253 CE): the End of the Augustan Coinage System 138 Jerome Mairat Crisis and Transition, 253-285 CE148 Cristian Ga?zdac The Tetrarchy: Do We All Look the Same? 156 Aleksander Bursche Medallions164 Matti Fischer Identity and Value: Interpreting Portraits on Coins from the Victor A. Adda Collection 196 Yaniv Schauer With a contribution by Jonathan Grimaldi Table of Roman Imperial Coins from the Original Victor A. Adda Collection (46 BCE-335 CE)250Scanned Plates of the Original 1986 Christie's Catalogue304Scale Images (2:1) of Coins from the Victor A. Adda Collection at the Israel Museum