{{Short description|Austrian numismatist}} {{Infobox person | name = Michael Alram | birth_date = 1956 | birth_place = | education = University of Vienna | occupation = Historian, Numismatist | known_for = Director of the Vienna Coin Cabinet at the Kunsthistorisches Museum | notable_works = | title = Director | awards = | website = }} '''Michael Alram''' (born 1956) is an Austrian historian and a numismatist. He obtained his doctorate in the [[University of Vienna]] in 1982, in Ancient Numismatics and Classical Archaeology.<ref>{{cite web |title=RNS Medallist 2013: Michael Alram |url=https://numismatics.org.uk/2018/07/29/rns-medallist-2013-michael-alram/ |website=The Royal Numismatic Society |date=29 July 2018}}</ref>
He has been Director of the Vienna Coin Cabinet at the [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] since 1982.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alram |first1=Michael |editor1-first=William E |editor1-last=Metcalf |title=The Coinage of the Persian Empire |url=https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195305746.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195305746-e-5 |website=The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage |language=en |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195305746.001.0001 |date=10 February 2012|isbn=978-0-19-530574-6 }}</ref> He is also a member of the Numismatic Commission of the Austrian Academy of Science.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Traina |first1=Giusto|author-link=Giusto Traina|title=428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire |date=25 April 2011 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-3286-6 |page=XIII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_O1KheDl1HMC&pg=PR13 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellerbrock |first1=Uwe |title=The Parthians: The Forgotten Empire |date=25 March 2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-35852-0 |page=186 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=njAXEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT186 |language=en}}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite journal |last1=ALRAM |first1=MICHAEL |title=The Beginning of Sasanian Coinage |journal=Bulletin of the Asia Institute |date=1999 |volume=13 |pages=67–76 |jstor=24048958 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24048958 |issn=0890-4464}} * {{cite journal |last1=WOYTEK |first1=BERNHARD E. |last2=UHLIR |first2=KATHARINA |last3=ALRAM |first3=MICHAEL |last4=SCHREINER |first4=MANFRED |last5=GRIESSER |first5=MARTINA |title=The Denarius under Trajan: New Metallurgical Analyses |journal=The Numismatic Chronicle |date=2007 |volume=167 |pages=147–163 |jstor=42666937 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666937 |issn=0078-2696}} * {{cite journal |last1=ALRAM |first1=MICHAEL |title=From the Sasanians to the Huns New Numismatic Evidence from the Hindu Kush |journal=The Numismatic Chronicle |date=2014 |volume=174 |pages=261–291 |jstor=44710198 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44710198 |issn=0078-2696}} * {{cite journal |last1=ALRAM |first1=MICHAEL |title=Three Hunnic Bullae from Northwest India |journal=Bulletin of the Asia Institute |date=2003 |volume=17 |pages=177–184 |jstor=24049314 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24049314 |issn=0890-4464}} * {{cite book |last1=Alram |first1=Michael |title="The Numismatic Legacy of the Sasanians in the East", in "Sasanian Iran in the Context of Late Antiquity: The Bahari Lecture Series at the University of Oxford" |date=1 February 2021 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-46066-9 |pages=5–21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5AcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 |language=en}} * Michael Alram, “Indo-Parthian and early Kushan chronology: the numismatic evidence,” in Coins, Art, and Chronology: Essays on the Pre-Islamic History of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, eds. * {{cite book |last1=ALRAM |first1=MICHAEL |last2=FILIGENZI |first2=ANNA |last3=KINBERGER |first3=MICHAELA |last4=KRIZ |first4=KAREL |last5=NELL |first5=DANIEL |last6=PFISTERER |first6=MATTHIAS |last7=VONDROVEC |first7=KLAUS |title=Das Antlitz des Fremden: Die Münzprägung der Hunnen und Westtürken in Zentralasien und Indien |date=2016 |publisher=Austrian Academy of Sciences Press |jstor=j.ctt1mtz6qb |isbn=978-3-7001-8047-0 |edition=1 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mtz6qb}}
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