The British School at Athens Graduate Course in Greek Numismatics will run from 10-23 March 2025.
Applications are currently open and will close Thursday 30th November 2024.
Coins are an essential source of primary evidence for all students of the ancient world – historians, archaeologists, and literary scholars alike. This two-week training course provides hands-on experience of working with coins, both for those new to the subject and for those who wish to further their interest.
The course offers a chronological survey of Greek coinage, beginning with a discussion of money before coinage, and incorporating topics that range from the beginnings of the coinage in the seventh century BC up until the production of Greek coinage in the Roman period. The coinages of Greek settlements in various parts of the eastern and western Mediterranean will be studied, and Greek tokens will be discussed as well. There will be sessions on analytical techniques that assist the study of coins, such as describing and cataloguing, the importance of die studies, and the information that can be derived from hoards and site finds, weight standards and metrology, metallurgical analysis, databases.
The course will take place 10-23 March 2025 in Athens Greece, and will be directed by Clare Rowan (Warwick) and Mairi Gkikaki (Warwick). In addition to lectures and seminars led by the course directors, there will be guest lectures on a variety of numismatic topics, and students will engage direct study of numismatic objects. Students will work to identify coins assigned to them and to present the results of their study. The course will utilise the rich range of numismatic resources in and around Athens – museums and other coin collections, archaeological sites, and libraries.
The course fee is £800. This includes BSA one-month membership, housing where self-catering facilities are available, breakfast, meals as specified in the program, required travel within Greece, museum and site fees, one-year museum pass, one-month 24h access to the BSA library. Not included are: international airfare to and from Greece and meals not included in the program. Incidental expenses are the participant’s responsibility.
The course is limited to 12 places, and is open to students pursuing post-graduate degrees. Students are recommended to apply to their universities for financial support; a number of BSA-administered full and partial bursaries are available for students who would otherwise be unable to attend. We are currently seeking further bursary funding for students and will update the course web page as soon as we know if bursaries will be available.
Those interested in participating in the course should e-mail their application to the Assistant Director at assistant.director@bsa.ac.uk by Thursday 30 November 2024, with the title ‘Greek Numismatics course application’. The e-mail should have the following information:
- The full name of the applicant, and university affiliation
- Current degree course, if a student
- If they would like to apply for a course bursary as well as a short statement in support of this request
- Attach a cover letter outlining why they wish to participate in the course.
Further information is available here.