In Verona, numismatic collecting had its premises in the fourteenth century. In the Renaissance, Mario Bevilacqua surpassed his fellow citizens for the value of his collection, including several hundred high quality coins. In the circle of followers of Scipione Maffei we find Giuseppe Venturi, Leonardo Targa, Jacopo Muselli and Jacopo Verità. From their master they received, among other things, the pleasure of collecting coins and arranging them into chronological series and classes, with clearly defined categories. Some unpublished letters, sent by Muselli to Francois Séguier, illustrate the attempts to distribute its catalogs in France and to receive coins through that channel. Among antiquarians and numismatists, Jacopo Muselli was the only one who pursued a systematic numismatic classification based on the same criteria as the major numismatists of his time.
