Roman medallions in Croatian museums
The exhibition is opened from December 15th 2004 till February 7th 2005
The organizer of the exhibition is the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split in the cooperation with the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek.
The author of the exhibition is Tomislav Separovic, a curator in the Split Museum, with the participation of Zdenka Dukat from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb and Hermina Göricke Lukic from the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek.
The exhibition displays the material from the numismatic collections of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split and the Museum of Slavonia in Osijek. Exhibited are all known bronze and silver coin medallions, together with two chosen specimens of contorniates from Late Antiquity - altogether 18 items. By far the largest number of the displayed pieces comes from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. This is not surprising in the least, considering the fact that the Numismatic collection of this Museum ranks among the most important in Europe. Some of the exhibited medallions can be considered unique in the world terms, and the quality of their workmanship, their beauty and harmony, make these real masterpieces of the engraving art, with hardly a rival in the entire Classical numismatics. Although rather small in terms of the number of exhibits, the exhibition displays monuments of outstanding value, which count as the first-class and indispensable source for the research of the Roman history and religion.