Inheriting Rome: the imperial legacy in coinage and culture

Mar 31

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Inheriting Rome: the imperial legacy in coinage and culture

Barber Institute of Fine Arts, 27 February 2015 – 24 January 2016

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Coin Gallery

As Interim Curator of Coins at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, my position in CESMA is a bit unusual. Unlike most academics, I have a regular working day and my research on things outside the job, about which I hope to blog in future, has to happen in my free time. On the other hand, I get the run of a collection of 16,000 ancient and medieval coins and seals and a gallery and budget in and with which to mount exhibitions! And the latest one of these has very recently opened, curated by yours truly. It’s entitled Inheriting Rome: the imperial legacy in coinage and culture and I’m really very pleased with it. The designer has taken my ideas and content and made…

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About Jack

BRIEF BIO: Jack Gunter is a writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and songs. He is the co-owner of Open Door Communications, a copywriter, an inventor, and a former broker and private investigator. He is a naturalist and an amateur scientist and cryptologist. He likes to compose music and to design and play games and puzzles of all types. He homeschooled his children. He lives in the Upstate of South Carolina with his beautiful wife, talented two daughters, his old friend and Great Dane Sam, and his three Viking Cats.

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