The CHANGE team to travel to Kraków September 2025 to attend a major conference: 'In the cradle of coinage. The ancient coins of Asia Minor'
Day 1 (Thursday) - 25th September
9:00-9:10 - Welcome - Stanisław Sroka, Dean of the Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University
9:10-9:20 - opening of the conference - Jarosław Bodzek, Director of the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University
Session I
9:20-9:40 - Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, “Remarks on Archaic Electrum Coinages”
9:40-10:00 - Peter van Alfen, “Transitional Troubles? From Electrum to Silver Coinage in Archaic Asia Minor”
10:00-10:20 - Ute Wartenberg-Kagan, “The Milesian Weight Standard in the Archaic Period”
10:20-10:40 - Mariusz Mielczarek, “Cyzicene electrum coinage in the Northern Black Sea region, once more”
10:40-11:00 - Discussion
11:00-11:20 - Coffee break
Session II
11:20-11:40 - Jonathan H. Kagan, “Numismatic Implications for Northwestern Asia Minor of the Failure in 427 of the Mytilenean Revolt”
11:40-12:00 - Helmut Lotz, “New Research on Dynastic Lycian Coinage”
12:00-12:20 - Andrew Meadows, “Isolationism and Interaction. The Weight Standards of Archaic and Classical Lycia”
12:20-12:40 - Koray Konuk, “Back to Kasolaba”
12:40-13:00 - Discussion
13:00-14:20 - Lunch
Session III
14:20-14:40 - Jarosław Bodzek, Paweł Gołyźniak, “The Koiné of Achaemenian and Graeco-Persian Gems and Coins?”
14:40-15:00 - Paul Seyfried, “Iconographic Continuities in Northwest Asia Minor: The Transformation of Priapus and the ‘Winged-Horse Protome’ on Lampsacene Coins (6th Century BC – 3rd Century AD)”
15:00-15:20 - Andrea Gorys, Bernhard Weisser, “Imagines Nummorum: The serpents of Asclepius”
15:20-15:40 - Discussion
15:40-16:00 - Coffee break
Session IV
16:00-16:20 - Leah Lazar, “Coin Hoards in Hellenistic Asia Minor”
16:20-16:40 - Selene Psoma, “Hellenistic Asia Minor: between coins and epigraphic documents”
16:40-17:00 - François de Callataÿ, “The Copper Alloy Mithridatic Coinages: Possibly the Largest Issues ever Produced for the Greek World”
17:00-17:20 - Aneurin Ellis-Evans, “The Introduction of Brass Coinage in Asia Minor in the 1st Century BC”
17:20-17:40 - Fran Stroobants, “From Hellenistic to Roman? The Breakthrough of Civic Coin Production at Sagalassos and Pisidia”
17:40-18:00 - Discussion & Closing of the first day of the conference
19:30 - Dinner
Day 2 (Friday) - 26th September
Session I
9:00-9:20 - Daniela Williams, “The Lure of the Coins of Prusias I of Bithynia and two unrelated Groups of Modern Forgeries”
9:20-9:40 - Ulrike Peter, “Iconographic Patterns in Roman Provincial Coinage in Northwestern Asia Minor”
9:40-10:00 - Andrew Burnett, “Reflections on the Severan coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia”
10:00-10:20 - Michel Amandry, “Severan Coinage in Pontus and Paphlagonia: Chronology, Production and Purpose”
10:20-10.40 - Discussion
10:40-11:00 - Coffee break
Session II
11:00-11:20 - Christopher Howgego, “Coin Hoards in Roman Imperial Asia Minor”
11:20-11.40 - Marguerite Spoerri-Butcher, “Contextualising a Hoard of Provincial Coins of Hierapolis (Phrygia) without Provenance”
11:40-12:00 - Kevin Butcher, “Gross, Disgusting and Ugly: The Materiality of Small Change”
12:00-12:20 - Aleksander Bursche, Kirylo Myzgin, “Gold Coins of Alexandria Troas Once More. Insights into the Asian Mint Activity in the mid-3rd Century AD”
12:20-12:40 - Discussion
12:40-14.00 - Lunch
Session III
14:00-14:20 - Marguerite Spoerri-Butcher, “Recent Developments of the RPC Online Project: How to Use AI to Translate and Edit more than 140,000 Coin Legends”
14:20-14:40 - Barbara Zając, “Roman Provincial Coins and New Technologies”
14:40-15:00 - Johannes Nolle, “City Coins from the Roman Empire (Greek Imperials): The RPC, City Corpora, and Old and New Research Goals”
15:00-15:20 - Haim Gitler, “Asia Minor Coins of the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Periods found at Controlled Archaeological Excavations in Israel”
15.20-15.40 - Discussion
15:40-16:00 - Summary & Closing of the conference
19:00 - Dinner
List of abstracts provided here:
https://asia-minor-coinage.confer.uj.edu.pl/speakers-abstracts
Download the Conference Programme in pdf: CONFERENCE PROGRAMME.
