The international network of Arthur Löbbecke (1850-1932), banker in Braunschweig and one of the foremost collectors of Greek coins, through his early correspondence with foreigners (1876-1889)

• Autores: F. de Callataÿ, Bernhard Weisser
• Localización: Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, ISSN 0774-5885, Nº. 167, 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • With more than 28,000 carefully selected pieces, Arthur Löbbecke, a rich banker from Braunschweig, built one of the most important collections of Greek coins ever. Purchased by the Berlin coin cabinet in 1906, it still represents more than a quarter of the complete collection for Greek and Roman Provincial coinages. The Berlin coin cabinet also keeps his astonishingly vast correspondence, estimated to comprise more than 6,000 letters, almost all fully devoted to numismatics. This is without known parallel and provides some of the best possible evidence to reconstruct the social network of the 19th-century ‘republic of medals’. This paper focuses on small part of this voluminous correspondence: the letters which were not written in German and sent between 1876 and 1889.