Numismatics
Links of interest
Numismatics
DIANA: Digital Iconographic Atlas of Numismatics in Antiquity
The research project "Digital Iconographic Atlas of Numismatics in Antiquity" (DIANA) is a web application that provides analysis of ancient coins considering their iconography, chronology, and the geographical location of their mints. Currently, more than 1000 iconographic types are available for search.
Numismatics
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO)
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO) harnesses Linked Open Data to provide links across digital projects in Roman numismatics and beyond. At its launch CRRO provides access to six online collections containing over 20,000 specimens of Republican coinage.
The description of coin types provided here is based on Michael Crawford's 1974 publication Roman Republican Coinage (RRC), which is still the primary typology used for the identification of Roman Republican coin types.
Numismatics
PELLA: Coinage of the kings of Macedonia
PELLA is a new research tool cataloguing the individual coin types of the Argead kings from Alexander I (ruled 498–454 BC), the first of the Macedonian kings to strike coins, down to Philip III Arrhidaeus (ruled 323–317 BC), the last of the titular kings to do so. Included as well as are the numerous posthumous civic and successor coinages struck in the names of the kings.
Numismatics
Historia Numorum Online aims to record and publish all types and varieties of the coins minted before the Roman period (c. 650-30 BCE).
Numismatics
Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, Heberden Coin Room
In the Ashmolean Musem in Oxford, the Heberden Coin Room contains one of the most important coin collections in the world, that comprises of coins from all chronological periods. The full digitisation of the coin collection is currently ongoing.
Numismatics
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques
The collection of Greek coins is very important - it includes almost 122,000 objects - and very varied both chronologically and geographically.