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Clare Rowan talking at the Royal Numismatic Society
Location: Warburg Institute London
Clare will be speaking on the topic:
From Walter Benjamin’s age of reproduction until the advent of new media in the present day, scholars of visual culture and media have developed techniques for approaching mass-produced, circulating objects and images. These disciplines often draw terminology and inspiration from coinage (mass-produced objects/images that existed before the industrial revolution) but numismatics has been little influenced by the methodological insights offered by these fields. This paper uses the iconography of Roman Republican provincial coinage to begin a discussion about how we might view, analyse and interpret coin imagery within an interdisciplinary context in the modern age.