A lecture on Goths given in New York, 10 July 2015

2015.07.14 -

In his lecture “The Roots of Germanic Coinage” given at the 17th Annual Henry Grunthal Meeting of the New York Numismatic Club commemorating the long-standing, eminent curator of the American Numismatic Society, Prof. dr hab. Aleksander Bursche reported on the key outcomes of the MPOV Project. The focus of his lecture were the origins of Germanic coinage attributed to the Gothic groups established in eastern Poland and north-western Ukraine between the second half of the third and the fifth century. Present in the audience were Prof. Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, President of the International Numismatic Council, Harvard University, dr William E. Metcalf Yale University, dr Alan M. Stahl Princeton University, and Peter van Alfanen, dr Ute Wartenberg-Kagan and dr Elena Stolyarik, American Numismatic Society in New York. After the lecture Professor A. Bursche was awarded the Henry Grunthal medal.

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  Photo 1. The venue of New York Numismatic Club

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  Photo 2. After the lecture Prof. Bursche receives the Henry Grunthal medal

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  Photo 3. Obverse of the Henry Grunthal medal

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  Photo 4. Reverse of the Henry Grunthal medal

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  Photo 5. Invitation to the lecture.