. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. interesting to note thai, as early as tiic 187()s, an American nuniismalist, Sylvester S. Clrosbyâccr- tainh nnaware ol' hnhcjof-Bknner's new metliodsâ had tried, in his work The Eurly Coins of America (1875). to establish a chront)lonical arrangement in early American coins liv studyino; their die combina- tions. At the present time, die-studies are the common procedure in Greek numismatics and attempts have been made recently to apply it to Roman as well as modern coinatjes. Inspired by Thcodor Mommsen's idea of creating an extensive work
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. interesting to note thai, as early as tiic 187()s, an American nuniismalist, Sylvester S. Clrosbyâccr- tainh nnaware ol' hnhcjof-Bknner's new metliodsâ had tried, in his work The Eurly Coins of America (1875). to establish a chront)lonical arrangement in early American coins liv studyino; their die combina- tions. At the present time, die-studies are the common procedure in Greek numismatics and attempts have been made recently to apply it to Roman as well as modern coinatjes. Inspired by Thcodor Mommsen's idea of creating an extensive work on Greek coins as a companion to the "C:orpus of Latin Inscriptions," the Prussian .\cadeniy of Sciences in Berlin assiirned to Imhoof- I51umer the direction of Die Aniiken Nnrd- (hiechenhitids. .Such a corpus was intended to super- sede all publications on the subject by describing every known coin t\ pe of each city or province within a chronological .sequence, with full attention given to all av<iilahle source material. 'I'his dream of a corpus of all ancient Greek coins .seems to have haunted numismatists since the early 16th century, when Wolfgang La/ius first proposed such a work. But it pro\ed too ambitious e\cn for the late 18()0s, and despite competent scholars, this gigantic German work progressed very slowly imtil it Inially came to a halt in the late 1930s.'-'' In 1939 new plans were made to proceed on a basis of international coopcrati(jn. Under the direc- tion of Prof. Gerhard Rodenwaldt, scholars such as Paul ]M. Strack. .Xchim Hundt, Theodor GerassiniolT, and Madimir C^lain-Stefanelli were assigned to con- tinue the work, biu the enterprise died out during World War II. At the turn of the century France began producing noteworthy numismatic works. .Almost edly, Ernest Babelon (lS54-l')24),'-'< director of the Gabinet des Medailles in Paris and author of many authoritative works on Greek numismatics, under- took the task
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