Melbourne 1998

Proceedings of the ICOMON meetings, held in conjunction with the ICOM Conference, Melbourne (Australia, 10-16 October, 1998), ed. by Peter Lane and John Sharples. Melbourne, Numismatic Association of Australia, Inc, 2000.
Table of contents

Foreword and Preface

Richard Doty
Ophir reconsidered: the influence of precious-metal discoveries on numismatics and banking

Takashi Okubo
Mining frontiers and their impact on money: from the viewpoint of Japanese monetary history

William Bischoff
Gold rush: the first ten millennia

Trevor Hart
Banking in a new world: the beginnings of the ANZ Bank

Wang Dan
Exhibition on special subjects of Chinese money

Rasanubari Asmaramah Hj Baharum
The nature and underlying philosophy of the Bank Negara Malaysia Money Museum collection

Robert Hoge
Chinese numismatics in American museums

Roger McNeice
The circulation of the sicca rupee in Van Diemen’s Land

Elsa Lizalde Chávez
From pre-Columbian mediums of exchange in Mesoamerica to the first mintage in the New World

Eddie Butler-Bowdon
Bird of paradise iconography and Papua New Guinean national identity

Hortensia Von Roten
The creation of the Swiss franc

Thomas Lautz
Traditional money and cultural diversity: continuity and change in the Pacific region

Rafael Feria
Navigating the net: the Museo Casa de la Moneda experience

Gareth Williams
The “World of Money” CD-ROM

Marianne Danneel
Presenting the Euro to the museum public

Michael Alram
The numismatic project “Carnuntum”

Guenther Dembski
Security in numismatic collections & exhibitions

John Sharples
Numismatic iconography: creating a nation or future eating?