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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Thousands of coins added to SCO
Seleucid Coins Online (SCO) has received a major new a set of data for around 6,500 coins in the Bibliothèque nationale de France collection. The information is connected to URIs defined in PELLA and SCO. This latest data set includes 4,450 coins from the Seleucid Empire. This nearly doubles the number of specimens available in SCO. The American Numismatic Society has…
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Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards
The original Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards (IGCH), edited by Margaret Thompson of the ANS, Otto Mørkholm of the Danish cabinet in Copenhagen and Coin Kraay of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, was published in 1973 by the ANS for the International Numismatic Commission. The work contains inventory listings of 2387…
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ARCHER: American Numismatic Society Archives
In 2004 the ANS established a centralized archive when it was preparing to move to its location in Lower Manhattan. The mission of the Archives is to serve as a centralized resource for historical information about the Society. The ANS Archives fulfills this mission by: collecting, preserving, and making accessible the historical records of the…
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Recent articles in Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine
We have recently published online three more articles by Dr Peter Lewis in the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine: February 2019 – The Coins of Tarsus, Part 1 December 2018 / January 2019 – An Interesting Byzantine Coin from the 11th Century November 2018 – Griffins
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Travelling exhibitions
The Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History has several curated sets of historical material that are available for loan to schools, churches and community groups. Exhibition sets that are currently available include the following, and more sets will be created over time: The coins of Ephesus 34 coins from the seventh century BCE to the…
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Searchable Coin Auction Database Upgrade
The ancient coin search service (acsearch) has recently announced a significant upgrade to the scope of its database. acsearch.info is an auction database containing numismatic auctions from various renowned international auction houses. The database in part goes back more than 17 years and contains pictures, descriptions and realized prices in several currencies. The official announcement reads…