Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History Foundation

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  • Open Art Images

    Open Art Images

    The website Open Art Images offers a broad scope of images including many images on Islamic Art. These images can be used freely in presentations but also on websites. OAI is a SEARCH AND VISUALIZATION ENGINE FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES OF ARTWORKS – from all around the world and from every period in history – that belong to the public domain or to a type of Creative Commons license which allows their reuse. All Images come with detailed information, relevant to the understanding of their historical and cultural context and which informs the user about their current location, source and license.

    OAI respects the privacy of its users by adopting completely anonymous tracking technologies.

  • Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

    Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

    HMML Authority File (HAF) is an open access database that shares lists of authorities used in HMML’s Reading Room and Museum. Metadata in HAF is submitted to the Library of Congress’s Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) as part of HMML’s partnership in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging. The HMML Authority File is part of the Resources for Description of Manuscripts from Understudied Christian and Islamic Traditions project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities that will help build the scholarly infrastructure to create access to endangered manuscripts digitized by the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. HAF is a living authority file improved over time. Some authorities may begin as sparse records but grow in detail as additional information is uncovered.

  • Islamic Manuscripts

    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 more details of collections which are available for local exhibition.

  • 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

  • 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 Ostrogoth
    March 2020 – An Interesting Elephant Coin from the Roman Republic
    February 2021 – The Middle Ages: An Exhibition of Coins and Other Objects

  • 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 thereafter minted locally, remaining in circulation even after Roman occupation.

    Iron Age Coins in Britain (IACB) is now available as a digital research tool that provides access to an edited ABC online. IACB is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. IACB is built on the numbering system created by the Ancient British Coins (ABC) series published in 2010 (available to purchase here). On the IACB website, some aspects of this typology have been changed (e.g. descriptions, spellings), therefore this website is not the responsibility of the publishers of ABC.

    Details about the fields and their data are given on the IACB Info page.

    Details about the digitisation project are given on the site’s About page.