. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. The role of revolutionizing the course of ancient numismaticsâopening new ways and pointing out new perspectives in its researchâfell to two men, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer in the Greek lield and Theodor Monnnsen in the Roman. GREEK NUMISMATICS Imhoof-Blumer's name trails like a comet across the field of Greek numismatics. Born at W'interthur, Switzerland, in 1838 into a family of wealthy indus- trialists, he decided in his midthirties to devote his life to Greek numismatics.'"^ Seldom, if ever, has an "amateur"âif this word coul
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. The role of revolutionizing the course of ancient numismaticsâopening new ways and pointing out new perspectives in its researchâfell to two men, Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer in the Greek lield and Theodor Monnnsen in the Roman. GREEK NUMISMATICS Imhoof-Blumer's name trails like a comet across the field of Greek numismatics. Born at W'interthur, Switzerland, in 1838 into a family of wealthy indus- trialists, he decided in his midthirties to devote his life to Greek numismatics.'"^ Seldom, if ever, has an "amateur"âif this word could ever apply to Imhoof- Blumerâattained such a level of pericction in his research: seldom has a numismatist brought about such significant innovations. The study of Greek numismatics has always a strong attraction on collectors because of the highly esthetic quality of Greek coins and because of the intriguing fact that these coins seldom bear more than the name of a city or a rulerâthereby posing challenging problems of identification. Imhoof-Bhuner started as a collector of Greek coins, but very .soon he began to publish his own observations as he discovered many entirely unknown or erroneously attributed coins. A long scries of articles and publications was the result, of which Monnaies ffrecques (1883), Griechische Miinzen (1890), and hleimsiatische Miinzen (1901-1902) are major works. No problem seemed too difilcult for him to solve. His inquisitive spirit and his critical approach in using documentary and material evidence make most of his publications models of research. Sir George Macdonald rightly has called him // maestro di color che sanno. Impressed by certain die similarities of some staters in the Greek province of Acarnaniaâcoins which previously had been attributed to various cities on the basis of the obverse monogramsâImhoof-Blumer decided to assign them all to the same mint.'-' This recognition of the existence of identical âarising fro
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