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Coin collectors and museum donors. Contextualizing Delfino Trucchi and Antonino Salinas in early post-Unification Sicily (1868–73)
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Crisa, Antonino (2014) Coin collectors and museum donors. Contextualizing Delfino Trucchi and Antonino Salinas in early post-Unification Sicily (1868–73). Journal of the History of Collections, 26 (2). pp. 277-286. doi:10.1093/jhc/fht043
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fht043
Abstract
The main scope of this paper is the presentation of two little-known sets of archival records, kept at the Central State Archive of Rome and crucial for knowledge of the history of Sicilian collections in the early post-Unification period. In particular, they detail two donations of coins and antiquarian objects to the Museum of Palermo by the collector Delfino Trucchi (1868) and by the Director Antonino Salinas (1873).
The Ministry of Public Education, the main state authority for museum management and supervision, was appreciative of these actions. Records, transcribed in an online Appendix, form the core of this paper and offer fresh data to help contextualize these episodes in terms of the history of Sicilian archaeology. Last but not least, observations on the political significance of these donations will be provided, as well as remarks on the role of Salinas as both skilful numismatist and ‘clever’ donor of approximately 6,600 finds.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | A General Works > AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General) C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the History of Collections | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2014 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 26 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 277-286 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/jhc/fht043 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Copyright Holders: | The Author | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 August 2018 |
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