Numismatic Conference Moscow 2005
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We
owe our thanks to Prof.
Bogomil Nikolov (Sofia, Bulgaria), who gave at this conference a lecture
about the Bulgarian Modern Medals, sending us the following article:
The
13th Russian Annual Conference on Numismatics
The annual Russian and international
Conference was held in Moscow from the 11th to the 15th of April this year.
Reports of the results of the scientific, expositional, informational
and collecting activities carried out by Russian specialists in the field of numismatics
and other accessory branches were presented.
The Conference was carried out
under the auspices of the Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
and with the participation of the Council of the International Numismatic Commission,
the Russian Council on Numismatics, the Centre of Comparative Research on Ancient
Civilizations, The Institute of History with the Russian Academy of Sciences and
Moscow State University "Lomonossov".
The program included plenary
sessions and discussions on Ancient and mediaeval numismatics, modern and present-day
numismatics, bonistics, phaleristics and medallic art.
The opening of the
Conference has held in the Italian Courtyard of the Pushkin Museum under the chairmanship
of
I. A. Antonova, Director of the Museum. Speeches were delivered also by
Professor V. L. Yanin, Academian of the Russian Academy of Sciences, G. V. Vilinbahov,
Deputy Director of the State Hermitage of Sanct-Peterburg;
Prof. G. M. Bounhart-
Levin, Academian of the RAS, Prof. Michel Amandrie, Director of the Department
for Coins and Medals at the National Library of Paris, President of the International
Commission on Numismatics and others.
Pictures:
1 Medal made
on the occasion of the 13th Numismatic Conference.
2 The Director of the Pushkin
Museum I. A. Antonova opens the Conference.
3, 4 Prof. B. Nikolov delivers
his report
5. The cocktail party after the ceremony.
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