François de Callataÿ

François de Callataÿ (born 1961) is a Belgian ancient historian, professor at the École pratique des hautes études (Paris/Sorbonne), who has written significant studies of coinage and finance in the ancient Mediterranean world.

[2] He was educated at the Collège Saint-Pierre (Uccle) [fr], and went on to study Archaeology and Art History at the Université catholique de Louvain.

He went on to specialise in the study of ancient Greek money, presenting a doctoral dissertation in 1988.

In 2006 he was appointed over-all head of the patrimonial collection of the Royal Library (including manuscripts rare books, prints, maps, coins, medals and music).

In 1995 and 2003 he was visiting professor of the Summer Seminar of the American Numismatic Society.