Kulturarvsstyrelsens landsdækkende database med oplysninger om over 150.000 kulturhistoriske lokaliteter
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'Coin finds databases'
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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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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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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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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