Career
He became custodian of the Cabinet of Coins and Antiquities in Vienna, and director of that institution in 1840, in which capacity he rendered very valuable services to the department of numismatics. Among his more important works are:
Synopsis Numorum Grœcorum (1837)
Synopsis Numorum Romanorum (1842)
Das k. k. Münzund Antikenkabinett (1845)
Die antiken Kameen des k. k.
Munzund Antikenkabinetts (1849)
Die Cinque-Cento-Kameen und Arbeiten des Benvenuto Cellini und seiner Zeitgenossen (1858)
He was the father of Alfred von Arneth.
