Zdenka Nemeškalová-Jiroudková
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Zdenka Nemeškalová-Jiroudková is a
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numismatist A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...
and archaeologist. She was born in
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on 9 April 1928.


Career

During her career she studied Czech coin finds, including those of thirteenth-century Venetian coins at
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and coin finds from Vízmburk. She has worked on national and international numismatic collections, including at Copenhagen Museum, as well as the finds of Roman coins in
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Museum. She specialises in the study of Celtic coinages and has public widely on the subject, including the coin treasure from
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. She has also studied the metallurgy of the gold in Celtic staters. She was a pioneer of assessing Czech coin finds within their archaeological contexts. Particular studies have included coins found in West Bohemia.


Publications

* 1960, ''Nález mince v románské bazilice v Teplicích'' * 1961, ''K současným úkolům numismatiky doby římské'' * 1963, ''Římské mince v Čechách a jejich dějinný význam'' * 1986, ''Nález mincí tolarového údobí v Chlečicích, o. Strakonice: (tab. I - IV)'' * 1993, ''Numismatický sborník'' * 1998, ''Keltský poklad ze Starého Kolína''


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