!!!Numismatik

Numismatics, one of the first eminent collectors of coins in Austria 
was Emperor Maximilian I, and the later Habsburgs acquired further 
precious items for their coin collections. Emperor Karl VI set up the 
"Muenz- und Antikenkabinett" (Collection of Coins and Antiques) in 
Vienna (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum). In the 16%%sup th/%  
century first attempts at scientific numismatic research, to which 
Austria contributed considerably, were begun by W.  Lazius, L. 
Heyperger and C. Tanstetter and continued by C. A. Fernberger in 
the 17%%sup th/%  century and by K. G. Heraeus, C. Garelli, E. 
Froehlich and J. Khell von Khellburg in the 18%%sup th/% century. 
J. H.  Eckhel was the founder of strictly scholarly numismatics 
in Austria and compiled a first system of classification. Another 
important numismatologist was F. Neumann, who connected numismatics 
with archaeology, which still very much concentrated on classical 
numismatics in the 19%%sup th/%  century. Famous 19%%sup th/%  century 
numismatologists were J.  Brettauer, K.  Domanig, J. v. Arnetz, 
J.  Bergmann, in the 20%%sup th/%  century A.  Luschin-Ebengreuth, A.  
Loehr and B. Saria. In 1870 the Numismatic Association in Vienna 
("Numismatische Gesellschaft in Wien") was founded. Since 1947 it has 
been called the Austrian Numismatic Association ("Oesterreichische 
Numismatische Gesellschaft"); it owns a library, the Richter 
Collection (classical coins), publishes the magazine "Numismatische 
Zeitschrift" and issues reports.

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Numismatics helped to have coins acknowledged as historical sources 
and thus became one of the first exact historical disciplines in 
Austria. The large collections in Vienna contributed to this 
successful development.


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