About Us
The coin collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Regensburg originates from the private collection of the engineer and architect Franz Langlotz (born in Regensburg, 1876-1953). Due to his personal interest and passion he had collected several objects of ancient art – including Attic and southern Italian painted ceramics, 42 (mostly Roman) glass vessels, small bronze objects, Hellenistic terracotta statuettes – and 25 coins (mainly Roman denarii). Born in Regensburg, Langlotz bequeathed half of this collection, including the coins, to his former school, the Humanistisches Gymnasium, now the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium. From 1991 to 1994, on the initiative of Prof Dr Dieter Salzmann, over 800 ancient coins were added, mainly as donations from various German auction houses and coin cabinets as well as permanent loans from the Historisches Museum Regensburg. Designed as a study collection, it now covers all the important historical regions and Roman provinces of the Mediterranean and beyond, organised chronologically from the Greek Archaic period to the Byzantine era.
Bibliography: M. Bentz (ed.), Antike Kunst in Regensburg. Die Sammlungen Langlotz, Lippold und Winzinger (Regensburg 1999) pp. 7-10.
Project management: Christian Kunze
Academic Staff and responsibilities: Lorenzo Cigaina
Photography: Lorenzo Cigaina
With collaboration of Katrin Dorfner and Natalia Meling
Coin composition on the Homepage: © Bettina Springer-Ferazin
Programming: Jürgen Freundel, Ilmenau
Layout: Goldland Media
Maps: Goldland Media, Dr. Jürgen Freundel
This project is in cooperation with the Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin: Coin database and online catalogue based on ikmk.smb.museum with shared data administration for the NUMiD-network and the semantic web.
