Browse Nomisma IDs

Filters
Download CSVAtom Feed
8301 to 8316 of 8316 total results.

Boeotarch

Definition
Boeotarch was the title of the chief officers of the Boeotian Confederacy. The function of the Boeotarchs were roughly equivalent to that of the Athenian strategos, acting as both political leaders and generals in battle. The most famous individuals to hold the office were Epaminondas and Pelopidas, who led Thebes to hegemonic status over Greece in the middle of the 4th century BC.
Type
Role, Concept

Lucius Aelianus

Definition
A fictional Roman usurper portrayed on modern medals. Presumably a mistaken identification of the Gallic Emperor Laelianus.
Type
Person, Concept

Tarraconensis

Definition
This concept reflects the historical region of Tarraconensis in Hispania, roughly corresponding the spatial extent of a Roman province of the same name.
Type
Region, Concept

Ferdinand I

Definition
Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 Alcalá de Henares - 25 July 1564 Vienna) was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1556 to 1564. He became Archduke of Austria in 1521, King of Croatia, Bohemia, and Hungary in 1526, and King of the Romans in 1531.
Type
Person, Concept

House of Habsburg

Definition
The House of Habsburg, also known as the House of Austria, is one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history. It takes its name from Habsburg Castle, a fortress built in the 1020s in present-day Switzerland by Radbot of Klettgau, who named his fortress Habsburg. His grandson Otto II was the first to take the fortress name as his own, adding "Count of Habsburg" to his title. In 1273, Count Radbot's seventh-generation descendant, Rudolph of Habsburg, was elected King of the Romans. Taking advantage of the extinction of the Babenbergs and of his victory over Ottokar II of Bohemia at the battle on the Marchfeld in 1278, he appointed his sons as Dukes of Austria and moved the family's power base to Vienna, where the Habsburg dynasty gained the name of "House of Austria" and ruled until 1918.
Type
Family, Concept

Józef Majnert

Definition
Józef Majnert (1813-1879) was a Polish medalist, engraver, and an employee of the Warsaw state mint. He is also known as a counterfeiter. Lit.: J. Strzałkowski, Słownik medalierów. Warszawa (1982) p. 80.
Type
Person, Concept

Gotfryd Majnert

Definition
Gotfryd Majnert (1767-1847) was a Polish medalist, engraver, and an employee of the Warsaw state mint. Lit.: J. Strzałkowski, Słownik medalierów. Warszawa (1982) p. 80.
Type
Person, Concept

Habsburg-Laufenburg

Definition
In the years between 1232 and 1234, a division of property and administration took place between the brothers Albrecht IV of Habsburg (continuing the older lineage) and Rudolf III of Habsburg (the founder of Habsburg-Laufenburg). The Habsburg-Laufenburg possessions were located in the Frickgau with its seat at Laufenburg Castle, in the Albgau with Hauenstein Castle, in the Aargau with Stein Castle, as well as in Obwalden, eastern Switzerland and in the county of Klettgau.
Type
Family, Concept

Jan Nepomucen Langer

Definition
Jan Langer (1838-1876) was a Polish medalist and engraver. Active in Krakow. Lit.: J. Strzałkowski, Słownik medalierów. Warszawa (1982) p. 73.
Type
Person, Concept

Tournesion

Definition
Palaiologan billon or copper denomination (plural tournesia) struck on the weight and model of the denier tournois that circulated in Frankish Greece at the time. Compare Lit.: Ph. Grierson, Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and the Whittemore Collection V (1999) pp. 31-32, 51-52.
Type
Denomination, Concept

obole

Definition
Medieval and modern denomination with the value of obole, issued in the French speaking area. For the ancient greek denomination, seee the ID obol. For the overarching medieval and modern concept, see medieval_obol.
Type
Denomination, Concept

obol

Definition
Medieval denomination with the value of obol, issued in the German speaking area. For the overarching medieval and modern concept of obol, see medieval_obol. For the ancient greek denomination see obol.
Type
Denomination, Concept

obol

Definition
Medieval denomination with the value of obol, issued in the English speaking area. For the overarching medieval concept of obol, see medieval_obol. For the ancient greek denomination see obol.
Type
Denomination, Concept

1/2 taler

Definition
Denomination with the value of 1/2 taler, issued in the German speaking area. For the overarching concept, see half-taler.
Type
Denomination, Concept

Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

Definition
The Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne was opened in 1974 on the former site of a Roman urban villa just to the south of the cathedral. It was the result of the fusion of two collections owned by the City of Cologne: the Roman collection that, since 1935, had formed the Roman and Germanic Departments of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, and the collection of the Prehistoric Museum, known since 1926 as the Museum of Prehistory and Early History.
Type
Collection, Concept

Salzburg Museum

Definition
Numismatic collection: At the museum’s founding in 1834, the coins and medals of the former independent archiepiscopal foundation of Salzburg were an important part not only of the collection but also of the presentation. The collection grew at a significant rate in the following decades. Its development was especially encouraged by the fact that several curators were simultaneously the foremost numismatists in Salzburg at that time. Above all Karl Roll (1850–1934) made an important contribution to it – the City of Salzburg has even named a street after him. The purchase of the Roll Collection ultimately made the museum collection the most comprehensive of its kind. The inventory suffered a grave and irreplaceable loss shortly after the end of the Second World War. After American soldiers transported the holdings to Hallein in 1945 – they had been salvaged in Dürrnberg – almost half the total inventory of Salzburg coins and medals went missing, among them nearly all rare and unique objects. Since then, a number of important pieces have been bought back. The heart of the collection consists in the Salzburg coins and medals. Coins were minted from the tenth century until 1810 with only few interruptions in Salzburg and several other cities and towns of the archiepiscopal foundation. In the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century, the coins minted here – contingent to the rich precious metal deposits in the Salzburg region – wielded great economic influence far beyond Salzburg. In the Early Modern Age important artists and dye cutters literally "put their stamp” on the appearance of the Salzburg coins and medals. The collection contains an extensive inventory of banknotes and paper money. A focus here is put on the local emergency issue of money after the First World War, some of which was designed by well-known artists, such as Anton Faistauer. More then 500 seal stamps show a spectrum of archiepiscopal seals since the eleventh century, from Salzburg guild seals to those of greatly diverse Salzburg institutions and persons. These are joined by original and later seal impressions and seal marks usual to the nineteenth century. Worthy of mention here from the orders, distinctions of honour and insignia are the insignia of the Salzburg Ruperti Order of Knights, the Chapter Cross of the Salzburg Cathedral Chapter and a great number of Tuscan orders, which the museum received from the Habsburg-Tuscany dynasty. Moreover, the Salzburg Museum also houses the most comprehensive medieval treasury of coins in Austria. In 1978, more than 28,000 silver coins were discovered in the house on Judengasse 10.
Type
Collection, Concept
8301 to 8316 of 8316 total results.