XIII Annual Meeting of ICOMON, Frankfurt 2006

Culture, Politics and Crime in the History of Money

Frankfurt, Germany, September 4 - 8, 2006

Monday September 04

8:00 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:45 Opening Representatives of Bundesbank and ICOM
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Keynote Speech: Ian Wishehn: Culture, Politics and Crime – How do Money Museums deal with bigger issues?
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Politics and its impact on money museums I
Catherine Eagleton, British Museum: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and money museums
Angelina Araujo: Politics and the money museum in Bogata: Colombian numismatics and the One Thousand Day`s War
Keith Sugden/ Phyllis Stoddart, Manchester Museum: Empire and its coinage: a contribution to the debate on colonialism
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Politics and its impact on money museums II
Janis Motivans, Bank of Latvia: Power in the Mirror of Money: National History at the Money Museum
19:00 - 21:00 Reception Money Museum

Tuesday September 05

9:30 - 11:00 Politics and its effect on banknotes and coins I
Takashi Uemura, Insatsu Choyokai Foundation, Influence of Politics on Banknote Design

11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 Politics and its effect on banknotes and coins II
Marianella Guevara Zerlin, Banco Central de Venezuela: The Foreign Cash Flow in Venezuela During the XIX Century – Background and Consequences
Fan Weihong, Kiangsu Numismatics Society: The Currency Design Reproduction and its Copyright Protection in China
Mohamed Elhadri, University of Lyon: Religion and mysticism on post-almohade coins: the example of the Marinads in Western North Africa (13th – 15th centuries)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Politics and ist effect on banknotes and coins III
Gerd Dethlefs, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster: Problems of the Copyright of Coins and Medals – An exhibition concept for German museums
Noriko Fujii, Bank of Japan: Japanese Advanced Techniques to Avoid Forgery of Paper Money in the 17th – 19th Century (Pre-Modern Era)
Rosanna Agard, Central Bank of Suriname: Suriname´s emergency money
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Culture, politics and crime on medals
Ulf Dräger
Medals: a source in economic history
Dirk Schaal
Dagmar-Beatrice Gaedtke-Eckardt, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover: "Art to touch - Medals as part of the museological idea"
18:15 Visit Municipal Archives of Frankfurt finished by a visit of a traditional “apple wine location”

Wednesday September 06

9:30 - 11:00 Cultural Development and the History of Money I
Dagmar Sommer, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden: "Architectura in nummis" – Building as a symbol of supremacy on Saxon commemorative coins and medals
Lucia Travaini, Università degli Studi di Milano: Gold Italian Coins and their Imitations 1252-1535
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 Cultural Development and the History of Money II
Carlos Iza Téran, Central Bank of Ecuador: Ecuardian Symbolism Coins
Vedat Keles, Erzurum Atatürk Üniversitesi Fen: Finings in Parion four Golden Objects
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 New Projects
Emanuela Ercolani, Luciana Prati, Carlo Poggi, Dipartimento di Storia Antica, Bologna/Pinacoteca e Musei, Forli: Numismatic Collections and historical knowledge, the Forli´project
Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser, City of hall in Austria, Social History in a mint museum? The concept of an exhibition in the mint museum in Tyrol
Gudrun Noll, Municipal Museum Erfurt: Money Exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Erfurt
Dr. Monika Lücke: Old Mint of Stolberg
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 ICOMON General Assembly
18:15 Historical Museum Frankfurt
20:00 Farewell Dinner

Thursday September 07

Excursion to the Rhine Valley (incl. Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim)
alternative Taunus Hills (incl. Saalburg)

Friday September 08