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Numismatist · Scholar · Cataloguer

Anne Destrooper-Georgiades

fl. 1984–2024

Numismatist who identified and published coins from Cypriot excavations and catalogued the coin holdings of the Hubbard and Gunther collections in the Cyprus Museum.

Biography

Anne Destrooper-Georgiades identified and published the coins from excavations at Dali, Nicosia and Nea Paphos and catalogued two coin collections in the Cyprus Museum. In 1984 she re-examined the Larnaca hoard (IGCH 1272) in the Department of Antiquities' Report1, and in 1998 she published with Andreas Symeonides the coins of the Symeonides collection that circulated in Marion6.

Her excavation reports include an overstruck bronze of Ptolemy I or Demetrios Poliorketes found by the University of Arizona at Dali3, a hoard of silver coins from Nikokreontos and Hadjopoulou Streets in Nicosia, published with Despina Pilides in 20087, and the coins of the Australian mission at Fabrika, Nea Paphos9. Pilides thanked her for an autopsy and preliminary identification of the coins from the 1997 excavation on St George's Hill in Nicosia15.

She also catalogued collections now in the Cyprus Museum: the 57 city-kingdom coins of the Hubbard collection8 and the Cypriot coins of the Gunther collection10. For the Gunther collection she traced 67 Archaic and Classical coins in the Cyprus Museum out of 2,286 recorded originally, with about 288 in the American Numismatic Society in New York11. Her Le monnayage des cités-royaumes de Chypre appeared in 20075. In 2020 she contributed an appendix on coins of the S.O.F.I.A. Foundation and Photiades collections to a catalogue by Vassos Karageorghis11.

Life and work

  1. 1984
    Re-examined the Larnaca hoard (IGCH 1272) in RDAC; returned to it in 2009-2011 (New Light on the Larnaca Hoard IGCH 1272).

    LarnacaThe Syllabic Inscriptions of… 2018, p. 29-30Rogge et al. 2019

  2. 1987
    Published La Phénicie et Chypre à l'époque achéménide: témoignages numismatiques, in E. Lipinski (ed.), Phoenicia and the East Mediterranean in the First Millennium B.C. (Louvain).

    Childs et al. 2012

  3. 1990
    Doctoral thesis, Université catholique de Louvain, on the dispersal of Cypriot Archaic and Classical coins.

    LouvainThe Syllabic Inscriptions of… 2018, p. 29

  4. 1995–1998
    Compiled the numismatic bulletin of Transeuphratène (nos. 16 and 18); Karageorghis (CCEC 32) calls the Cypriot bibliography very full but regrets her frequent citation of her own unpublished articles.

    Karageorghis 2002The Syllabic Inscriptions of… 2018, p. 29

  5. 1997
    Gave an autopsy and preliminary identification of the coins from the 1997 excavation on St George's Hill, Nicosia (Despo Pilides' investigation within the Meteorological station), acknowledged in Pilides' chapter.

    NicosiaTatton-Brown 2001, p. 113, n. 5

  6. 1998
    With Andreas Symeonides, published Classical Coins in the Symeonides Collection: the coins circulated in Marion in the 5th and 4th centuries (RDAC 1998, 111-125), cited in the Princeton Marion/Polis catalogue for individual coins.

    MarionChilds et al. 2012Recke 2018

  7. 1998
    Published an overstruck bronze of Ptolemy I / Demetrios Poliorketes found in the University of Arizona excavations at Dali, in Stephanos nomismatikos (Festschrift Edith Schonert-Geiss).

    DaliPapuci-Władyka 2020

  8. 2008
    With Despina Pilides, published a hoard of silver coins from the plot at Nikokreontos and Hadjopoulou Streets (east extension of the Hill of Agios Georgios settlement, Nicosia), RDAC 2008, 307-335.

    NicosiaRogge et al. 2019The Syllabic Inscriptions of… 2018, p. 55

  9. 2010
    Published the 57 coins of the Cypriot city-kingdoms in the Hubbard Collection in the Cyprus Museum (RDAC 2010, 2012, 373-397); the Hubbard collection entered the Cyprus Museum in 1963.

    NicosiaMerrillees 2014Amandry 2015, p. 28

  10. 2013
    Wrote on numismatic research in the collections of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and the formation of the collection (Nom Khron 31).

    NicosiaMarkou, p. 20-21

  11. 2016
    Published the coins from the Australian (Sydney) mission excavations at Fabrika, Nea Paphos, in Balandier (ed.).

    Nea PaphosPapuci-Władyka 2020

  12. 2017
    Published the Cypriot coins of the Charles Godfrey Gunther collection in the Cyprus Museum (RDAC 2011-2012, 599-638): of 2,286 coins originally, she tracked 67 archaic and classical ones in the Cyprus Museum; about 288 are in the American Numismatic Society, New York. Also published the 19 coins from Alassa excavations and the classical coins from the Department of Antiquities' Kourion excavations.

    NicosiaMarkou, p. 20-21

  13. 2020
    Contributed Appendix I (Cypriot coinage) to Karageorghis (ed.), Cypriote Antiquities in the S.O.F.I.A. Foundation Collection including part of the Photos Photiades Collection V, presenting seven coins.

    NicosiaMarkou, p. 20-21

Connections

9 people
Michael GivenDespina PilidesToby O'Brien HubbardCharles Godfrey GuntherAndreas SymeonidesEvangeline MarkouClaire BalandierKeith RutterMando OeconomidesAnne Destrooper-Georgiades
ScholarshipColleagues

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Cypriot coins (city-kingdoms) of the Hubbard Collection, 57 coins

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia1963Amandry 2015, p. 28

  • Cypriot coins of the Gunther collection (67 archaic/classical coins traced in the Cyprus Museum; about 288 in the ANS)

    Cyprus Museum, Nicosia / American Numismatic SocietyMarkou, p. 20

On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.A. Destrooper-Georgiades (1984). “Le trésor de Larnaca (IGCH 1272) réexaminé”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 140-161.
  2. 2.A. Destrooper-Georgiades (1987). “La Phénicie et Chypre à l'époque achéménide: Témoignages numismatiques”. Phoenicia and the East Mediterranean in the First Millennium B.C., 339-355. Louvain.
  3. 3.A. Destrooper-Georgiades (1998). “Un bronze surfrappé de Ptolémée Ier/Démétrios Poliorcète trouvé dans les fouilles de l'Université d'Arizona à Dali (Chypre)”. Stephanos nomismatikos. Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag, 207-213. Berlin, Akademie Verlag.
  4. 4.Anne Destrooper-Georgiades (2000). “Classical Coins Recently Found in Cyprus. The Coin Circulation in the Island at the End of the Archaic and during the Classical Periods”. Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Cypriote Studies, Nicosia 16-20 April 1996 1, 703-716.
  5. 5.Anne Destrooper-Georgiades (2007). “Le monnayage des cités-royaumes de Chypre: quelques aspects et problèmes”. Annali dell'Istituto Italiano di Numismatica 53, 9-63.
  6. 6.A. Destrooper-Georgiades, A. Symeonides (1998). “Classical Coins in the Symeonides Collection. The Coins Circulated in Marion during the Vth and IVth Centuries”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 111-125.
  7. 7.D. Pilides, A. Destrooper-Georgiades (2008). “A Hoard of Silver Coins from the Plot on the Corner of Nikokreontos and Hadjopoulou Streets (East Extension of the Settlement of the Hill of Agios Georgios, Lefkosia)”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 307-335.
  8. 8.A. Destrooper-Georgiades (2010). “The Cypriot Coins of the City-Kingdoms of the Hubbard Collection in the Cyprus Museum”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2010, 373-397.
  9. 9.A. Destrooper-Georgiades (2016). “Les monnaies des fouilles de la mission australienne à Fabrica, témoins du développement du site de la période hellénistique à l'époque moderne”. 177-188.
  10. 10.A. Destrooper-Georgiades (2017). “The Cypriot Coins of the Gunther Collection in the Cyprus Museum”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2011-2012, 599-638.
  11. 11.E. Markou. “Cyprus”. Numismatic survey (research 2013-2020), 17-21.
  12. 12. (2018). “The Syllabic Inscriptions of Amathous”.
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  14. 14.V. Karageorghis (2002). “Nouvelles archéologiques. Cypriote Antiquities in Foreign Museums”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 32, 3-4.
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  16. 16.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  17. 17.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  18. 18.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2014). “George Basil Palma, Chemist and Collector of Cypriote Antiquities in Famagusta, Cyprus, in the 20th Century A.D.”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44. Online
  19. 19.S. Rogge (ed.), Ch. Ioannou (ed.), Th. Mavrojannis (ed.) (2019). Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from the Earliest Times to Late Antiquity. Münster, Waxmann.
  20. 20.E. Papuci-Władyka (ed.) (2020). Interdisciplinary Research of the Jagiellonian University in Nea Paphos UNESCO World Heritage Site (2011-2015): First Results.