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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London Polyglot
One of the many delights in my role as the Executive Director for the CCCRH Foundation is to see with my eyes and touch with my hands (cf 1 John 1:1) an amazing variety of artefacts from the past. Some, like this leaf from the seventeenth-century London Polyglot Bible edited by Brian Walton, remind us
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Islamic Manuscripts
The Foundation has recently acquired a number of Islamic manuscripts. These beautifully decorated texts are part of the Islamic Coins and Manuscripts collection and are available for exhibition in schools, mosques and other community settings. The image featured in this post is a tenth century Qur’an MS with Sura 34. Visit the Exhibitions page for
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New coin articles uploaded
Three additional articles recently published in the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine have now been added to the CCCRH site: July 2021 – Telephus on Coins June 2021 – Coins of the early Popes May 2021 – The Puteal Scribonianum
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Three new coin studies
The following coin reports have recently been added to the CCCRH site, having been originally published in the Australasian Coins & Banknote Magazine: April 2021 – The Coins of Theoderic the OstrogothMarch 2020 – An Interesting Elephant Coin from the Roman RepublicFebruary 2021 – The Middle Ages: An Exhibition of Coins and Other Objects
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IACB: Iron Age Coins in Britain
Ancient British Coins (ABC) is the most comprehensive reference book for the typology of the Iron Age coins of Britain. ABC catalogues 999 types of coins found in Britain from around the early to mid-2nd century BC through the 1st century AD. The earliest issues were imported to Britain from the Continent, but they were shortly
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Three new coin studies posted
The CCCRH Foundation has recently published three coin studies by CCCRH Research Associate, Dr Peter Lewis: • First-Century Roman Emperors • The Monogram Coins of Theodosius II • The Love Coins of Ancient Rome These studies first appeared in the Australasian Council & Banknote Magazine.