Category: Coins

A short article by CCCRH researcher, Dr Peter Lewis, on the identification of the coin mentioned in Mark 12:15 has been published in FOCUS, the digital newsletter of the Anglican Church Southern Queensland. Read the article …

  News report from Numishare: More than 500 bronze coin types from Catharine Lorber’s Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire Vol. I, Part II (Ptolemy I – IV) have been published online to Ptolemaic Coins Online. You can access them by selecting Bronze from the material facet in the browse page: http://numismatics.org/pco/results?q=material_facet%3A%22Bronze%22.

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)

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

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… Continue reading Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire

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… Continue reading PELLA: Philip II Gold and Silver Coins

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… Continue reading PELLA: Coinage of the kings of Macedonia

The State Museum of Prehistory Halle (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle) is the latest partner to join the Nomisma.org Linked Open Data cloud through the KENOM portal of German civic museums. Over 300 coins have been added to OCRE and CRRO from the State Museum of Prehistory Halle. In total, KENOM has made more than 10,000… Continue reading KENOM Updates in Nomisma.org Projects

OZeAN: Online Zeitschrift zur Antiken Numismatik, is a new numismatic journal that publishes scientific essays, material templates and reports on novel possibilities for the collection and recording of materials. The first volume (published: 2019-08-29) has these three studies: The Hieromykes on a new coin type of Dion in the Decapolis and the Stygian riverscape of… Continue reading OZeAN: online numismatic journal

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is the newest entrant into the Nomisma.org Linked Open Data cloud, providing data for more than 1,600 Roman Republican and Imperial coins to Coinage of the Roman Republic Online and Online Coins of the Roman Empire. The MFA’s collection is particularly strong with respect to late Roman gold pieces,… Continue reading Museum of Fine Arts Boston joins Numishare