International Numismatic Libraries' Network
The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s database holds records of artefacts and coins found by the public, whilst pursuing a wide range of activities (the majority from metal detecting). The records are made available with differing levels of information, depending on the user account level. The Scheme is very willing to give research access to bona fide researchers.
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The EMC is a project to gather together into a single database all of the single finds of coins minted between 410-1180 and found in the British Isles. There are several thousand such coins, mostly Anglo-Saxon and Norman, but with a smattering of Frankish, Byzantine, even Arabic, and hundreds more are found every year.
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Prompted by calls from the Swiss Numismatic Society and the Swiss Association for Roman Studies to launch a national information centre, a commission was appointed in 1988, which led to the founding of SICF in 1992 as a scientific service according to the ‘Federal Act on Research’ of 1983.
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NUMIS, the NUMismatic Information System, is a database containing single finds and coin hoards in the Netherlands. The database not only contains coins, it also contains other numismatic items like medals and coin-weights.
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Yossi Dotan has just published the second volume in the three-volume Watercraft on World Coins series, the first ever to narrate history through the medium of ships featured on coins. The first volume described coins from Europe over the period 1800-2005, and the third volume will be on Africa and Oceania, 1800-2011.
Eastbourne : The Alpha Press, 2010. XIII, 346 p., ill. ISBN: 978-1-898595-50-2
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Posern-Klett, Carl Friedrich von: Sachsens Münzen im Mittelalter, Teil 1: Münzstätten und Münzen der Städte und geistlichen Sifter, Leipzig 1846.
URL: http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn320732738
The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS) was established at Macquarie University in 1999, as the result of an important endowment from Mr and Mrs W.L. Gale. The Centre has been placed within the Division of the Humanities. It has a board, as defined by the Centre’s constitution, of six members. The director (from 2000) is Dr Kenneth Sheedy. Each year ACANS appoints one senior research fellow and two junior fellows. It also annually appoints the Gale Distinguished Lecturer in Numismatics.