The Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium, known in Dutch as the Koninklijk Belgisch Genootschap voor Numismatiek and in French as the Société Royale de Numismatique de Belgique, is a society focusing on the field of
numismatics
Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.
Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also includ ...
.
About the Society
The Society was founded on 28 November 1841. It celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1991, when a history of the society was written. It is a non-profit organization under the High Protection of the King of the Belgians.
Publications
The Society publishes the journal ''Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie'' and an annual bibliography of numismatics (since 1988).
Prizes
The Society awards two prizes: Prix de la Société Royale de Numismatique de Belgique and the Prix Hubertus Goltzius.
Prix de la Société Royale de Numismatique de Belgique
Awarded every four years. Inaugurated in 1976, and first awarded in 1981.
* 2014
Lyce Jankowski
Lyce Jankowski (born 1982) is a numismatist, specialising in East Asia, and an art historian, specialising in Chinese material culture.
Career
Jankowski graduated in Classics (Licence and Maitrise at the Université Paris-Sorbonne), in Chinese ( ...
- on Chinese numismatics
* 200
Christophe Flament* 1998 François de Callataÿ
* 1981 M.-Th. Rath - on the medals of Charles VI
[Revue de la SRNB, 1981 p. 166.]
Prix
Hubertus Goltzius
Hubert Goltz or Goltzius (30 October 1526 – 24 March 1583) was a Renaissance painter, engraver, and printer from the Southern Netherlands. He is not to be confused with the much more famous Hendrik Goltzius, who was his cousin, once remov ...
Awarded every three years. To be awarded for the first time in 2019.
References
The website of the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium
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Awards for numismatics
Numismatic associations