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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Geta as Caesar, AE17, Pessinus, 198–209 CE
This post has brief notes for an unpublished coin that was identified by CCCRH Research Associate, Sebastian Harris. Sebastian has prepared the following notes, in preparation for a future RPC entry. A few months back, CCCRH acquired a bronze coin minted at Pessinus, during the reign of Septimius Severus (193-211 CE), which is not published
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Communion Tokens
The Foundation has a growing collection of Communion tokens. These were especially common in the various Presbyterian churches of Scotland between 1700 and 1900 CE. The CCCRH collection includes a number of Australian Communion tokens, including one from the Creek St Presbyterian Church, Brisbane (see featured photo). View our Communion tokens gallery …
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Public Charity Status Granted
Effective March 6, 2023 the American Friends of CCCRH has been determined to be a public charity under Internal Revenue Code Section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) and we are also now qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under Section 2055, 2106 and 2522 of the IRC. The AF-CCCRH has been established exclusively for charitable
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Latest additions to CCCRH collection
We have just added the details of 37 new acquisitions for the CCCRH collection to our online gallery. For those most part these items have not yet been fully documented, but their basic details are published along with photographs. During February 2024 we are planning to photograph around 1,800 coins and add those images to
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Search the CCCRH collection
Search our Collection The full CCCRH inventory can be browsed or you can search for a specific item. This link provides you with read-only access to selected fields from every record in the database. When using this link for the first time you will be asked to register your email address and name. For each
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Egyptian Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statue, c. 990/70 BCE
The Foundation has recently acquired an Egyptian Ptah-Sokar-Osiris statue, also called a papyrus sheath. It has been dated to 990-970 BCE. It is from the estate of an English military family who believed it was brought from Egypt in the early 1900s. It would have stood in a tomb near the mummy of the deceased.