Category: Coins

  • 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.

  • Three new articles posted

    Three recent articles by CCCRH Research Associate, Dr Peter Lewis, in the Australasian Coin and Banknote magazine have been added to the CCCRH webste:

    September – A Medallion of St Catherine of Alexandria
    August – Worn Coins
    July – An Interesting Family – Carus and his Sons

    SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons
  • MK Berlin fully linked to Antigonid Coins Online

    Online tools for numismatic research just keep getting better.

    Now Karsten Dahmen at the Münzkabinett Berlin has fully catalogued all of their coins of Demetrius Poliorcetes with the newly-published URIs from Antigonid Coins Online, which is based on Edward T. Newell’s 1927 corpus. There are 119 in total from Berlin, accompanying more than 400 coins from 10 other museums. One of the most diversely represented types is Demetrius 22, which is linked to eight specimens in five museums, including three coins from Berlin.

    See the example below:

    MK Berlin sample view

    SOURCE: Numishare Blogspot

  • Corpus Nummorum Online

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    Corpus Nummorum Online is a web portal devoted to the ancient coins of lower Moesia, Thrace, Mysia and the Troad. This is a pilot project for assembling ancient Greek coinage by region and mint for the various purposes of research and cultural heritage preservation. The research database is based primarily on Berlin collections, which include coins from approximately 104 mints from the aforementioned regions in the Münzkabinett Berlin, as well as an extensive collection of plaster casts that were made from coins in various collections worldwide and deposited at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). These datasets will be further supplemented by digital museum catalogues and material from other sources. In line with the concept of public science, the portal also offers the possibility of augmenting the database by registering coins externally. The database makes it possible to sort individual coins systematically and group them by mints and types, as well as by dies that were used in the minting process. If needed, types can also be subdivided or arranged into larger groups, such as series or issues. All coins in the portal are scientifically described in both German and English. Standardised criteria for the description of coin images, both for coin types and individual specimens, have been developed (for the description guidelines, click here or use the Help button). As a collective endeavour of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, and the Big Data Lab of Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, the portal is being developed in close collaboration with other international initiatives for the typological presentation of Greek coins in the Semantic Web, such as the Online Greek Coinage project, which is under the patronage of the International Numismatic Council (https://www.greekcoinage.org/). All relevant database fields are linked to stable Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) of numismatic concepts (http://nomisma.org). Because the portal is funded through various external-grant projects, there is variation in the scope of the data and the depth of coverage, but the overarching goal remains consistent: to create type catalogues for each respective coinage.

    SOURCE: https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/about

  • 126 BnF coins integrated into Antigonid Coins Online

    BnF Antigonid Coins Online

    One hundred twenty-six coins from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, recently cataloged by Julien Olivier, have been incorporated into the newly-released Antigonid Coins Online (AGCO), which so far includes the coinage of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Roughly a dozen of these coins were already accessible through AGCO upon its launch since a handful of the coins of Demetrius are cross-linked with posthumous issues in the name of Alexander the Great in PELLA (related specimens are displayed in Numishare when they link directly to a type URI or implied to be the same via skos:exactMatch).

    There are now 433 total specimens connected to the 182 types of Demetrius Poliorcetes. Two-thirds of the types are connected to at least one physical specimens, and about 40% (77 types) of the corpus links to at least one photographed coin. This number will grow, as the majority of the ANS’ coins of Demetrius have not been photographed yet.

    SOURCE: https://numishare.blogspot.com/2020/07/126-bnf-coins-integrated-into-antigonid.html

  • CCCRH Online

    CCCRH Online

    We are preparing to move our database of coins and other artefacts online and you can get a sneak preview here: