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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Recent articles in Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine
We have recently published online three more articles by Dr Peter Lewis in the Australasian Coin & Banknote Magazine: February 2019 – The Coins of Tarsus, Part 1 December 2018 / January 2019 – An Interesting Byzantine Coin from the 11th Century November 2018 – Griffins
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Travelling exhibitions
The Centre for Coins, Culture and Religious History has several curated sets of historical material that are available for loan to schools, churches and community groups. Exhibition sets that are currently available include the following, and more sets will be created over time: The coins of Ephesus 34 coins from the seventh century BCE to the…
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Searchable Coin Auction Database Upgrade
The ancient coin search service (acsearch) has recently announced a significant upgrade to the scope of its database. acsearch.info is an auction database containing numismatic auctions from various renowned international auction houses. The database in part goes back more than 17 years and contains pictures, descriptions and realized prices in several currencies. The official announcement reads…
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PCO: Ptolemaic Coins Online
The American Numismatic Society (ANS) has announced the release of a new web-based research tool: Ptolemaic Coins Online (PCO). As part of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, PCO is a new research tool intended to provide wide access to the coins listed in the print volumes of Coins of the…
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Three new coin studies
The following articles that first appeared in the Australasian Coin and Banknote Magazine have now been added to our online archives: October 2018 – The Remarkable Coins of King Offa September 2018 – Pulcheria – Woman of Influence August 2018 – A New Coin of Tiberius
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Seleucid Coins Online update
Seleucid Coins Online is [mostly] complete and published From the Numishare blog … After a few months of continuous work on normalizing data and fixing some type numbering issues, Seleucid Coins Online has been updated and completed (with the exception of some typos or missing type/subtype records we might invariably find). There are now 2,519…