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.
Category: News
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Bronze types from Ptolemy I – IV published to PCO
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.
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Checklist of Islamic Coins – PDF
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. -
Four new AC&BM articles
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 -
Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire
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 to collect information about hoards of all coinages in use in the Roman Empire between approximately 30 BC and AD 400. Imperial Coinage forms the main focus of the project, but Iron Age and Roman Provincial coinages in circulation within this period are also included to give a complete picture of the monetary systems of both the West and the East. In 2019 the scope of the Project was extended to include hoards of Roman coins from outside the Empire. The intention of the Project is to provide the foundations for a systematic Empire-wide study of hoarding and to promote the integration of numismatic data into broader research on the Roman Economy.
Visit the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire site now …
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PELLA: Philip II Gold and Silver Coins
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 is actually a die study, and the numbering system is based on die combinations rather than types. As such, there are about 2,200 or so die combinations that correspond to the 382 types. These types were given a new numbering scheme, pella.philip_ii.1 to 382, but all of the Le Rider numbers are also URIs in order to establish a concordance between Le Rider and the new scheme so that collections that cataloged their coins with Le Rider numbers can submit their RDF with those URIs or map the Le Rider to the PELLA type number.