The CCCRH collection is largely comprised of coins, medals, medallions and tokens, but we also have a large number of manuscripts and other items, including icons, figurines and weapons. We welcome opportunities to make items from our collection available to churches, schools, mosques and other community groups.
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Checklist of Islamic Coins – PDF
The third edition (2011) of Stephen Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins, has now been made available from his website as a free download. Even for those of us with the hard copy, having it in digital form can be quite useful. Stephen Album Rare Coins Download the Third Edition (2011)
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Four new AC&BM articles
Four new articles by Dr Peter Lewis have been added to our publications archive: April 2020 – The Coins of Miletus March 2020 – Coins and Icons February 2020 – Islam December 2019/January 2020 – Coins of Philip the Tetrarch
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Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire
The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire Project is a joint initiative of the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Roman Economy Project. It is the brainchild of Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza and is funded by the Augustus Foundation. It intends to fill a major lacuna in the digital coverage of coin hoards from antiquity. It aims…
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PELLA: Philip II Gold and Silver Coins
After considerable effort by ANS curator Peter van Alfen, the gold and silver coin types of Philip II of Macedon have been published to PELLA. This typology, based on Georges Le Rider’s 1977 Le monnayage d’argent et d’or de Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 à 294, has been numbered 1-382. Le Rider’s corpus…
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Digging for wisdom
Digging for wisdom: Archaeology as a resource in the religion class Date: Friday, 29 May 2020 (from 9.00am) Venue: Old Bishopsbourne, St Francis Theological College, Brisbane The first archaeologists were little more than treasures hunters. Think Indiana Jones. During the past 100 years archaeology has matured to become a multi-disciplinary research project seeking to understand…
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PELLA: Coinage of the kings of Macedonia
As a component of the National Endowment of the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, PELLA is an innovative research tool aiming, among other things, to provide a comprehensive typology and catalogue of the coinages struck by the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (c. 700–310 BC), arguably the most influential coinages of the ancient…