Montanistic river gold coinage (3 August 2022 - 16 January 2023)

The University Library's last exhibition in the "old walls" on Agricolastrasse is a particularly high-calibre exhibition - in the truest sense of the word.

It is dedicated to Saxon gold deposits and montanistic gold coinage. Two events were decisive.

Firstly, the completion of a new Kataloges zu Flussgold und montanistischen Goldgeprägen durch Herrn Dr. Lothar Schumacher and secondly the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Gottlieb Bidermann (1705- 1772), who as rector of the Freiberg grammar school compiled and published the first comprehensive, German-language numismatic catalogue of mining coinage "Von Bergwercks-Münzen".