April 23, 2015 – The Round Table will take place on 28-29 May 2015 in Copenhagen, in cooperation with the National museum of Denmark. This Round Table will focus on the questions of mints, technology, and coin production.
The development in minting techniques and in the demand for coins of good quality was massive through the industrial revolution and during the creation of nation-states and new monetary infrastructures in the 18th-20th centuries. The massive increase in the coin production’s quality and quantity due to the industrialized mints led to new possibilities and were everywhere put to use in the monetary.
Program
Room: Cinema
28 May
09.15-09.30 Opening
Michael Andersen: Welcome
Georges Depeyrot: DAMIN
Michael Märcher: Practical information
09.30-12.00 Chair: Michael Andersen
09.30-10.00 Ivar LEIMUS: International contacts of the Tallinn mint masters in the 16-17th c.
10.00-10.30 Viktors DABOLINS: The curious case of mintmaster of Riga city Jost Haltermann (1660-1663)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.30 Claudia JEFFERIES: Selective adoption of mining and minting technological innovations in Hapsburg Mexico: Centralist policy or exchange rate management strategy?
11.30-12.00 Dennis FLYNN: Monetary Theory versus Credit Theory in Monetary History.
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-16.30 Chair: Line Bjerg
13.00-13.30 Rahel ACKERMANN: Archaeology of an early modern mint: Haldenstein GR, Switzerland
13.30-14.00 Gitte Tarnow INGVARDSON Two 17th Century War Hoards from Todarp (South Sweden)
14.00-14.30 CAO Jin: Mints and Minting in Late Imperial China: Technology, organisation, and problems
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-15.30 Rita MARTIN DE SOUSA: Minting Techniques and the Quality of Coins produced in the Lisbon Mint House (18th-19th centuries)
15.30-16.00 Ursula KAMPMANN: Minting made in Germany, Trends in the Coin Producing Industry of Today
16.00-16.30 Seán KENNY and Jason LENNARD: Monthly Estimates of the Monetary Base in the United Kingdom, 1841-70
Dinner
29 May
09.00-12.00 Chair: Helle W. Horsnæs
09.00-09.30 Hedi SAIDI L’histoire des monnaies en Tunisie: une présence ancienne et variée
09.30-10.00 Ekaterina SVIRINA: Denomination of coins and paper money in the Russian Empire during the end of the 18th – 19th century: some historical peculiarities
10.00-10.30 Jens Christian MOESGAARD: Medieval coining tools from Lund, Scania (present day Sweden)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.30 Matthias MORYS: Latin Monetary Union coinage in South-East Europe between European aspirations and economic reality
11.30-12.00 Katerina BREGIANNI: Classical revivals in contemporary European banknotes and coins; cultural interconnections and monetary homogenization
12.00-12.30 Svein GULLBEKK: Concluding remarks
13.00- Lunch
The proceedings will be published in the Collection Moneta in summer 2015.
Everyone is welcome to attend the presentations in the cinema, but you will need to sign up by mailing Michael Märcher before 20 May 2015.
More information on DAMIN and the topics of the Round Table you may find on the website of DAMIN.