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Das Fach Numismatik und Geldgeschichte
Universität Wien, Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte
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- Numismatics and monetary history deal with coins, medals, monetary tokens, and coin-like objects, as well as the related political, economic, social, and cultural-scientific questions (Numismatik und Geldgeschichte befasst sich mit Münzen, Medaillen, Geldzeichen und geldähnlichen Formen sowie den damit verbundenen politischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen).
- The scope ranges from antiquity to the present and from the Orient to the Occident (von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart und vom Orient bis in den Okzident).
- Three research areas: economic history (function as money), iconography (medium of visual communication), and find coins (documentation and analysis of Fundmünzen; a methodologically distinct third major area).
- Vienna School (Wiener Schule): Reconstruction and analysis of minting plans (Prägepläne).
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