News

ImagNum at the “Diagram” workshop as part of the series “Basic Concepts in Archaeology” at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.

New Github repository published: GraphRAG-Driven Agentic Reasoning: A Research Prototype using ADK, MCP, and Neo4j

ImagNum is also represented at the DHd in Vienna.

The ImagNum project invites applications from interested students.

Today marked the start of our Academy Lecture Series at schools in Berlin and Brandenburg. The opening event took place at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Königs Wusterhausen, where the 90-minute lecture entitled “Pecunia non olet. The Birth of Money and the Coin as a Source in Classical Studies” was delivered.

We have published the blueprint for our future graph architecture for describing depictions on coins and modeling uncertainty.

The Imagines Nummorum team wishes you a joyful and peaceful Holiday season and a happy, healthy, and successful New Year.

The third edition of the international conference “BULGARIAN NUMISMATIC READINGS” will take place in Plovdiv between 25 and 27 June 2026. The Call for Paper has been extended until December 20.

This year as well, ImagNum is once again participating in the Digital Classicist Seminar: The ACCSN Initiative: Discovering the Potential of Digital Methods by facing their Limits

The Academy project Disecta membra is hosting an interesting conference: »Teil und Ganzes: Wissenschaftliche Zugänge zu zerstreuten Dingen«.

Our colleague, Paul Seyfried, M.A., speaks about ‘The Coinage of Lampsakos. Continuities and Phenomena from 800 Years of Local Coinage’.

Prof. Dr Hartwin Brandt (University of Bamberg) talks about ‘Contingency and communication. The Roman emperors and their coins.’

"Engraving Universal Values: Prometheus Symposium on Digital Epigraphy and Heritage Representation, Belgrade"

An exciting program at the international conference in Kraków: ImagNum will be there.

A warm welcome to all participants in Deultum for a week on "Ancient Coinages: Theory and Practice (Thrace and the Black Sea Region)"

On November 7–8, 2025, the established TAN will take place in Münster. Applications for contributions should be submitted now.

DIGITAL CLASSICIST SEMINAR BERLIN: CALL FOR PAPERS 2025/26

Aleksander Bursche was honored with the prestigious Reimar Lüst Prize for international science and culture communication.

Under the heading “Texts and Images on Greek Coins between Paratextuality and Parapictoriality,” Annette Haug and Ulrike Peter will present initial ideas for Module 4, “Coins as Iconotexts,” based on material from the current first module of ImagNum at an international conference at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.

Imagines Nummorum looks forward to welcoming interested guests.

First Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer Lecture in Winterthur

This year's DARIAH-EU meeting will take place in Göttingen from June 17 to 21 under the title “The Past.”

In close cooperation with Bulgarian colleagues, the CN team is recording modern forgeries of ancient Greek and Roman coins from the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium.

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is hosting a major conference on the future of collections. ImagNum has been invited to present its work.

There are two events that will attract digitally engaged numismatists to Athens in early May: the annual meeting of Nomisma.org at the École française d'Athènes and the Computer and Archaeology Conference “Digital Horizons: Embracing heritage in an evolving world” at the University of West Attica.

Our colleague, Dr. Michał Halamus, from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, who is spending six months conducting research on our project, presents an exciting part of his work. We cordially invite you to the Lise Meitner Hall.

We cordially invite you to the ceremonial launch of our academy project Imagines Nummorum.

The second Sofia Numismatic School will take place from September 10 to 14, 2025 at the Archaeological Research Base of the Roman Colony of Deultum. The application deadline is April 4, 2025.

The team at Imagines Nummorum is looking for support!

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Bartosz Awianowicz from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń to Berlin.

Visit Our Project Booth at the Salon Sophie Charlotte

ImagNum = “IMAGINES NVMMORVM: Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum Online (ThING)” is the title of an Academy project that will commence on January 1, 2025, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities with a planned duration of 25 years.

The BBAW's complete collection of digitized plaster casts of ancient coins are now accessible through both the German Digital Library and Europeana.

At the invitation of the Seminar for Ancient History and Epigraphy at the University of Heidelberg, we had the opportunity to present the results of our work from D4N4 and IKKINUM at their research colloquium and to provide an outlook on ImagNum.

Invitation to a lecture -- As part of the Digital Classicists Seminar, the fascinating project DigiDeultum will be presented. This project explores whether digital humanities, particularly in the study of Antiquity, have reached the level of synthesizing new research directions, methods, and ultimately, knowledge.

Exciting news: On January 1, 2025, “IMAGINES NVMMORVM: Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum (ThING)”, a new numismatic academy project, will start at the BBAW.

The Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities is holding its annual conference in Bern this time on the topic “Archaeology & Interoperability”

Anna Willi (British Museum London) will speak on the topic “More than words: an object-focused look at Roman wax writing tablets”. You are warmly invited.

CN participates in the Conference on Roman and Late Antique Thrace that will take place from the 10th to the 13th of October 2024 in Greece at the site of ancient Abdera.

Andrew Meadows' ERC project, “CHANGE: The Development of the Monetary Economy of Ancient Anatolia, c. 630-30 BC,” has recently published new databases (https://change.web.ox.ac.uk/home). Scholars were invited to New College, Oxford, to discuss the potential for working with these data.

A conference organized by the AvH Foundation and the Humboldt Union Bulgaria: CN is also represented.

In the winter term 2024/25 the seminar series organized by the “Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in cooperation with the “Berliner Antike-Kolleg” has the theme "Make data visible!". You are cordially invited to submit your contributions.

Visit the Corpus Nummorum! This year, the Academy invites you to the Long Night of the Sciences in the Academy Wing on Unter den Linden 8.

The 6th International RaLATh Conference, titled "Town and Country in Roman and Late Antique Thrace," will be held from October 10-13, 2024, in Abdera, Greece.

11th annual meeting of the European Coin Find Network 2024 will take place at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands, on November 6th-7th. Apply now!

We are delighted to have been invited to the series of ancient studies events at the University of Vienna.

CN is participating in the annual Workshop on Ancient Numismatics in Toruń.

Our sponsor and distinguished expert in ancient coins, particularly those from the Black Sea region, Prof. Dr. Ing. Jean Hourmouziadis, will give a lecture titled "Numbers in Numismatics - Definitions, Experiments, Evaluation, Presentation". The webinar will be held in hybrid format on May 29, 2024, from 13.00 to 14.30 CEST (Berlin).

Lectures in Berlin and online

Exciting days: Methodology conference and collection recording

On the invitation of Sofia University, Bulgaria, we have the opportunity to participate in the international interdisciplinary conference "Researches of Ancient Thrace between Traditionality and Modernity: Theoretical Aspects and Scientific Methodology."

CN takes part in the Third International Congress on the History of Money and Numismatics in Antalya

If you missed our presentations at CAA 2023 in Amsterdam or want to test your own machine learning models on our coins, click here.

CN was presented at an international conference of the Biblissima+ project.

We would like to thank once again all participants of our international workshop at the end of November. It was two very intense days of exchange about the progress achieved within the framework of the D4N4 project in applying AI methods in numismatics.

1) The 'Coin of the Month' for January 2024 is presented for the first time by a colleague and collector, Bartosz Awianowicz. 2) Our Bulgarian colleagues received an award for organizing the 1st Bulgarian Numismatic School, in which we also participated. 3) The second issue of the first volume of the new online "Bulgarian Numismatic Journal" was published on time at the end of 2023.

Happy New Year!

For the first time a round Table of the Ancient Coins Counterfeits Scientific Network will take place in Berlin.

In connection with our projects „Data quality for Numismatic based on Natural language processing and Neural Networks – D4N4“ and "Iconography and AI methods in numismatics" we organize a workshop.

Martin Langner will discuss "Dimensions, Patterns, Models: Computer-Aided Image Analysis in Classical Archaeology"

The project " Classifications and Representations for Networks. From types and characteristics to linked open data for Celtic coinages," with which we are closely associated through collaboration, is organizing its concluding workshop.

A showcase of the special exhibition "Street, Houses, People" is dedicated to the former head of the Griechisches Münzwerk, Edith Schönert-Geiß.

The winning teams of the Data Challenge Seminar in the summer term 2023 at the Goethe University Frankfurt won a two-day trip to Berlin.

At the invitation of the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade, Ulrike Peter and Vladimir Stolba visited the impressive archaeological site of Viminacium (Moesia Superior) near present-day Kostolac, near Požarevac. It was elevated to a Roman colony by Gordian III and granted the right to mint coins.

For the first time, a Numismatic Summer School is taking place in Sofia, in which 15 participants from four different countries take part. It is dedicated to the ancient numismatics of Thrace and the Black Sea region.

Now all published coin types of the CN portal are directly accessible also via the nomisma.org website.

Join us for a great event: From June 19th to 23rd, 2023, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” will host the International conference “10th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org & the 2nd Bulgarian Numismatic Readings TOGETHER”.

In the frame of the DiGi Thrace Project, the First Numismatic School entitled "Ancient Coinages: Theory and Practice (focusing on Thrace and the Black Sea Region)" will take place in Sofia next September (12-16 Sept. 2023) .

Please join us for an introduction to the ARCH portal, which is creating a typology of Ancient Greek Coinage. It is a hybrid event which will take place at the BnF in Paris, but you can also participate remotely via Zoom.

Exchanging our experiences in using Artificial Intelligence for numismatics.

An exciting program for everyone at the 10th joint meeting of the European Coin Find Network and Nomisma.org, which this time will be held together with the 2nd Bulgarian Numismatic Readings in Sofia. Online participation is also possible.

We are very grateful for the opportunity to gain insight into the coin collections of four major museums in Switzerland.

CN takes part in the conference ‘Computer and Archeology 2023 – 50 Years of Synergy’ with a poster and oral presentations.

Ulrike Peter gives guest lectures at the Swiss National Museum, Zurich, and the Basel Historical Museum.

Applications for the 4th Summer School of Ancient Greek and Roman Numismatics in Athens are open. || For the 2nd time, the American Numismatic Society is pleased to accept applications for the Collier Prize, which recognizes an outstanding publication in ancient numismatics.

Our portal Corpus Nummorum continuously increases its number of users. While in 2020 9,780 researchers and interested parties used our portal, in 2022 their number increased to 15,000.

The Corpus Nummorum receives numismatic literature from the library of late Prof. Maria R.-Alföldi.

The Corpus Nummorum team thanks you very much for your support of our project in 2022!

Exploring the numismatic collection of the Tekirdağ Museum

The CN-team studies the numismatic collection of the Edirne Museum.

The CN-team explores the numismatic collection of the Kırklareli Museum.

Prof. Dr. Dr. sc. Dilyana Boteva-Bojanova and her former student and now a colleague, Dr. Lily Grozdanova, were awarded the Grand Prize of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". The entire CN-team congratulates warmly them on this occasion.

We cordially invite you to the lecture by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Friederike Fless, President of the German Archaeological Institute, on the topic "Über das Heben von Schätzen: Archäologie in Archiven".

10th Joint ECFN and Nomisma.org Meeting & 2nd Bulgarian Numismatic Readings will take place in Sofia, June 19-23, 2023.

Our colleague Chrisowalandis Deligio from the Big Data Lab at the University of Frankfurt am Main will give the first lecture of the Digital Classicists seminar this semester.

The International Numismatic Congress, which takes place once every six years, will be, for the first time, held in Warsaw. Almost the entire CN team will be on site presenting the portal and own research.

The 16th Day of Ancient Numismatics in Münster is already planned for the end of October: You can still submit presentations and posters from all areas of ancient numismatics until August 28th.

There is a new call for papers for the eighth series of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin.

CN takes part in an international conference in ancient Aigai, the royal metropolis of Macedon.

CN partakes in the 2nd Erfurt Numismatic Talks "City and Money through the Ages".

On May 7, 2022, Professor Dr. Maria Radnoti-Alföldi passed away. We commemorate with great gratitude the project director of the "Griechisches Münzwerk".

The Corpus Nummorum is a scientific cooperation partner of two international projects based in Bulgaria: The project "Measuring Ancient Thrace. Re-valuating Antiquity in Digital Age”, funded by Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF), and the “Ancient Coins Counterfeits Scientific Network”, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

CN takes part at the session COINAGE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE ILLYRICUM AND THE DANUBIAN PROVINCES: NEW THOUGHTS AND PERSPECTIVES.

We congratulate our colleague Hristina Ivanova-Anaplioti very warmly on the successful disputatio of her doctoral thesis on the coinage of Apollonia Pontike at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

At the annual conference of the Digital Humanities in German-speaking countries, CN is represented with a poster contribution.

Our coin the month features an electrum coin of Cyzicus. One of the most important collections of these coins—including the famous Orlovka hoard, discovered in 1967—is in the Odessa Archaeological Museum, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

CN is part of an international scientific network on ancient coin forgeries. The network's new website illustrates well its current extent and scope.

CN takes part in an International conference at the Museum of the International Numismatic Club, Moscow.

We would like to thank you for your continued contributions to and support for our Corpus Nummorum project.

A Turkish-German collaborative project on over 1,500 Thracian and Moesian coins from the museums of Ankara, Edirne, Kırklareli, Tekirdağ, and Troy (Çanakkale), as well as selected Turkish private collections.

On 26 November 2021, an online workshop took place between CN and the project "Measuring Ancient Thrace. Re-evaluating Antiquity in Digital Age" (project № КП-06-Н50/3 of 30.11.2020)".

Open Meeting of the DARIAH-EU Digital Numismatics Working Group. Catch the essentials of digital numismatics in 90 minutes.

CN will be there. Join in!

We cordially invite you to the first event, the Roundtable on 3D Digitization in Classical Studies.

organized by "Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum" and "Corpus Nummorum". We invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Rebenich (Bern) entitled “<Ich habe versucht alle meine Kräfte daranzusetzen>. Heinrich Dressel und der Großbetrieb der Altertumswissenschaften an der Berliner Akademie”.

Originally planned for April 2020, the annual meeting of the European Coin Find Networks and nomisma.org had to be postponed because of the Coronavirus. Now, it will take place as a hybrid event.

The CN team cordially invites you to a presentation in which we will be introducing the launch of our new project.

The call for papers is still open. We look forward to receiving your abtract by midnight on 31 July 2021!

The BBAW, the Berlin Münzkabinett, and the Big Data Lab of the University of Frankfurt a. M. can continue their cooperation in the field of ancient Greek coinage and the application of digital methodologies for data collection and coin research.

The Berlin Münzkabinett invites you to the annual celebration of the IKMK.

The month of May invites you to many exciting numismatic events online. On Monday, May 17, a round table about the history of coin collections will be held on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum’s coin cabinet in Moscow.

Vladimir Stolba's ongoing data entry of the coins of the Troad led to a reassignment of a specimen in the Berlin Münzkabinett.

Thanks to funding by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the coins of the university collections in Germany could be published and can now be researched online across collections (https://www.numid.online/home?lang=en).

Something new in numismatics: As an entry for the young talent competition "Kleine-Fächer: Sichtbar innovativ!" of the German Rectors' Conference, our colleagues from the University of Tübingen have submitted a project (https://www.hrk.de/themen/hochschulsystem/kleine-faecher/kleine-faecher-sichtbar-innovativ/numismatik-und-medieninformatik/) to post short videos on YouTube.

Professor Dr. Bernhard Weisser has been elected chairman of the Numismatic Commission of the States in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Numismatic Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A new numismatic award from the American Numismatic Society: The substantial monetary prize will be awarded biennially to the best single or multi-authored book, catalogue, or online digital work in the field of ancient numismatics (650 BCE to 300 CE).

"Von, für und mit Menschen." Presentation of the new publication on the history of the Münzkabinett Berlin with the participation of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Professor Dr. Hermann Parzinger.

The international conference "History and Society in Numismatic Perspectives", where members of our CN team take part, will take place on 10th-12th November 2020, at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

The Seminar will start next Tuesday, 3rd of November, for the winter term and runs on a fortnightly basis at the Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at 4 pm.

Next week the Fourth International Conference "Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (RaLATh) will take place in Burgas, Bulgaria, devoted this time to "Conflicts and Catastrophes".

Thanks to our IT expert, Claus Franke, a map, which displays the mints, hoards and findspots, is now added to the portal’s menu.

The call for papers for the seventh series of the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin is open until July, 31st. The seminar will run during the winter term of the 2020/21 academic year and is organised by the "Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt" of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities together with the Berliner Antike Kolleg.

The conference "History and Society in Numismatic Perspectives" will be hosted by Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in October 2020. The registration deadline is extended until 12.07.2020.

It is a first preliminary version and covers all provincial coinages issued under Gordian I, Gordian II, Balbinus, Pupienus, and Gordian III (AD 238-244), except for the province of Asia which had been previously published as RPC volume VII.1 by Marguerite Spoerri.

Our colleague, Angela Berthold, gave a talk on the coin typology of Maroneia.

Join the lecture by Yannis Stoyas. It is the last lecture of the Numismatic webinar series organized by our colleagues in Sofia within the frames of the project "Cult and Religion in Ancient Thrace”.

Join the webinar on Sunday at 10 am by Prof. Dr. sc. Ilya Prokopov and Dr. Valentina Grigorova-Gencheva.

Webinar lecture by Ulrike Peter on coins as communication media in Thrace and Moesia Inferior in the third century AD

New project positions at the Münzkabinett Berlin will be available from September 1, 2020. The aim of this subproject is to record in the interactive catalogue of the Münzkabinett (ikmk.smb.museum) approx. 12,000 coins minted in Asia Minor prior to the Roman domination.

Join the lecture of Dr. Thomas Faucher on Saturday at 10 am "The Ptolemaic Coinage of Egypt".

Join the lecture of Prof. Dr. François de Callataÿ in the webinar series as part of the project on cult and religion in ancient Thrace.

A new project on cult and religion in ancient Thrace is being launched at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. An EU-funded international numismatic seminar series will take place in May / June.

Our colleagues, Lily Grozdanova and Karsten Tolle, will give a seminar this Thursday at 5 pm.

The menu navigation in our portal is now available in even more languages.

The CN team has been actively working from home and was able to add new functionalities to our portal: The layout of the website is now viewable in Bulgarian and Russian.

Thanks to our IT team, the Corpus Nummorum portal is now finally searchable in German, as was our plan from the beginning of the project.

On February 27, 2020, Vladimir Stolba and Ulrike Peter will give a talk on typology of Abydos’ autonomous and Roman provincial coinage in a broader context of the Troad and adjacent regions.

The Fourth International Conference “Roman and Late Antique Thrace” (RaLATh) will take place in Burgas, Bulgaria from 12–16 October 2020. The topic is “Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace.”

On February 1st, 2020, Claus Franke joint our team in order to support the IT needs of our database.

Dr. Lily Grozdanova, who is studying the coinage of Pautalia, was awarded the “Best Young Scholar of SU St. Kliment Ohridski” prize for 2019, founded and supported by the Sofia Municipality.

Karsten Tolle and Sebastian Gampe from our team in Frankfurt will present a paper titled “Nomisma.org und Corpus Nummorum - Einfluss digitaler Methoden.”

We are pleased to announce that on January 1, 2020, Jan Köster took over the role of IT support for our web-portal.

From January 2020, our practice of choosing the coin of the month will change.

Dear colleagues and friends, The CN-team wishes you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and successful New Year.

The second international “Visual Languages of Ancient Coins” (VLAC) conference, organized by the NUMiD Project, will take place in Frankfurt.

The Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz is organizing a one day conference on the so called “small disciplines” of the German research system.

The École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques – Equipe AnHiMA, is hosting a one-day workshop on the Roman Provincial coinage of the Troad organized by Antony Hostein, Directeur d’études at CNRS.

Join our CN colleagues and visit the 14. Tag der antiken Numismatik in Münster. As always, this numismatic meeting offers an interesting programme with numerous project presentations and the exciting results of new research.

The e-Forschungsberichte of the German Archaeological Institute have just been published. There you will find the above mentioned article which summaries the results of a workshop in October 2018. Two members of our team took part.

There is still time to applicate! The Corpus Nummorum Project is currently seeking a new specialist in IT and Digital Humanities, who would develop and enhance the project’s database, as well as manage its numismatic web-portal. We look forward to you!!!

There will be a new series of seminars at the Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Professor Reinhard Förtsch, IT-director of the German Archaeological Institute, will give the first lecture this Wednesday. He is asking “Is Digital Archaeology part of Digital Classics or just "Classics without the Language Thing"?” “

The Corpus Nummorum is currently seeking a new specialist in IT and Digital Humanities, who would develop and enhance our database, as well as manage our web-portal.

A new book entitled ‘Advances in Ancient Black Sea Studies. Scholarly Traditions and Preservation of Cultural Heritage’ and edited by our Romanian colleagues has just been published. Fantastic, this is the eighth volume of the series ‘Pontica et Mediterranea’ printed by MEGA Press. The volume is an outcome of an international conference held in Constanţa in August 2018. It contains 24 interesting papers grouped into four sections.

The ninth workshop organized by the German chapter of the international organization "Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology" will take place in Wilhelmshaven from 23rd to 24th September 2019.

OZeAN = Online Zeitschrift zur Antiken Numismatik: Congratulations – the colleagues in Münster have published the first issue of a new journal on ancient numismatics. This is the first German, open access, peer reviewed online numismatic journal with digital enhanced functions. The articles - in English or German - can be supplemented by film and audio documentation, 3D scans and databases.

The Berlin Münzkabinett is seeking a museum assistant (in training) to start in November 2019. The position is open to applicants of all genders and will be limited to a two year period. The application deadline is September 9, 2019.

As of the last few months, our portal has begun to offer the possibility of exploring not only Thracian coins, but also coins minted in Moesia inferior, Mysia, and the Troad. If you have not yet familiarized yourself with the new material and functionalities of our portal, you are welcome to do so now.

There is a new call for papers for the Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin, which will take place for the sixth time during the winter term of the 2019/20 academic year. The seminar is organised by the "Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, together with the "Berliner Antike Kolleg".

The workshop "Ontologies for Linked Data in the Humanities" sponsored by the ADHO LOD SIG will take place on Monday 08th of July in Utrecht prior to the start of Digital Humanities 2019.

A workshop about digital methods in the field of Classical Archaeology will take place at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken.

International Numismatic Symposium: Coin Hoards in Southeastern Europe (1st-6th century AD)

The Director of the Department of Coins and Medals at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow joins the Corpus Nummorum for a working visit.

Professor Antony Hostein, director at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, is a visiting scholar at Corpus Nummorum for five months. On Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 4 pm, he will give a public lecture at our centre “Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Unter den Linden 8, room 07W04. Everybody is warmly welcome.

Victor Cojocaru, a specialist in Black Sea studies, is a senior research fellow (CS I) at the Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy in Iaşi.

In Germany, we have the “Numismatische Kommission der Länder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland,” which was founded in 1950. The commission is a scientific organisation of the federal states for the promotion and processing of coin and monetary history and concerns itself with the collection of information on coin finds. This year, the meeting will take place in Kassel.

The annual meeting of the Europaen Coin Find Network and nomisma.org will be hosted by the University of Messina on May 2–4, 2019.

The 47th Annual Conference "Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology" will take place in Kraków April 23-27, 2019.

Αn international numismatic conference entitled “Monete frazionate. Aspetti economici, questioni cronologiche, quadri regionali” will take place in Milan in September 2019.

Our colleague, Domenic Schäfer, is participating in this conference in Athens.

One of the more perplexing problems we face as students of Archaic and Classical coinage at times is the determination of the precious metal weight standard used to produce a coinage and its denominational structure.

We look forward to welcoming Mirjana Vojvoda from the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade.

Ulrike Peter will give a talk on Monday, March 18th in Warsaw University. You are all warmly invited.

On February 16, 2019, Professor Dr. Bernd Seidensticker celebrates his 80th birthday.

We are extremely sad to announce that Vladilen Afanas‘evich Anochin, an eminent Soviet and Ukrainian numismatist and historian, passed away on January 20, 2019.

The 8th joint meeting of the European Coin finds network and nomisma.org will take place in Messina from May 2nd-4th, 2019, hosted by the Università degli Studi di Messina.

The Team of CN wishes all friends and contributors to our database happy holidays and health and success in the New Year! 2019 starts with a lot of news from us!

CNT takes part in the Pondera online workshop in UCLouvain

First meeting of the ARCH project in Paris

The Münzkabinett Berlin is celebrating its 150th Birthday on November 22nd. We will take part in the celebration festivities and thank the Münzkabinett for the very good collaboration.

Please read our CNT-article on digital numismatics in the Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 5, n°3, 2018.

Corpus nummorum presents a poster. Join the colleagues in Münster! It is always a great event.

Please join the paper of our colleague Domenic Schäfer. He will talk about the coinage of Severus Alexander as medium of imperial self-representation.

Just out: Proceedings of the First International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference “Cities, Territories and Identities” (Plovdiv, 3rd – 7th October 2016)

On Thursday starts the interesting workshop “Ding-Editionen: Vom Artefakt übers Corpus ins Netz” at the Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) of the German Archaeological Institute. Ulrike Peter will give a paper about the history of the Corpus Nummorum; Karsten Tolle about ontologies.

3rd International Conference “Roman and Late Antique Thrace” (RaLATh), 18-21 October 2018 in Komotini. Ulrike Peter will give a talk on "Münzprägung als multimodales Kommunikationssystem" and Lily Grozdanova will present a poster entitled 'Travelling Coin Types - The case of a unique Reverse Design from Pautalia.

At the International Symposium of Propontis and the Surrounding Cultures in Çanakkale from October 15-19 Vladimir Stolba and Ulrike Peter will present a poster on our new project part on Troas, Moesia and Mysia. It is entitled 'Greek Coin Types of the Propontis and the Surrounding Regions'.

At the conference in Oxford next week Karsten Tolle of CNT will present a paper.

We are looking for a student assistant for CNT in Münzkabinett Berlin.

At the international Symposium “Advances in Ancient Black Sea Studies: Scholarly Traditions & Preservation of Cultural Heritage” which takes place in Constanţa from August 20–24, 2018 Ulrike Peter will present our project with the paper „Perspektiven der vernetzten numismatischen Forschung – die Münzen der westlichen Schwarzmeerküste online“.

We are very pleased to announce that within the call for proposals "Promotion of research and development projects for the digitalization of cultural heritage objects – eHeritage" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) was granted a three-year funding from July, 1st, 2018 for the project "Corpus Nummorum Online – the ancient Greek coins of Moesia inferior, Mysia and the Troad".

On Saturday, November 3, 2018, this year's "Day of Ancient Numismatics" will take place in Münster.

The 7th Joint Meeting of Nomisma.org and ECFN 2018 will take place in Valencia from 3rd to 5th May. Ulrike Peter and Karsten Tolle of the CNT team will have their talks there among many others. Ulrike's talk is about 'Problems of typology within CNT' and Karsten will present 'Data Quality Fingerprints in Nomisma.org Linked Open Data'.

Within Session 33 'Guaranteeing data quality in archeological Linked Open Data' Corpus Nummorum Thracorum was present at the 2018 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) international conference.

The 7th Joint Meeting of Nomisma.org and ECFN 2018 will be hosted by the Museu de Prehistòria de València, Thursday 3rd – Saturday 5th May 2018. The Call for Papers and Registration are now open! The CNT Team is looking forward to the meeting!

The members of the Corpus Nummorum Thracorum (CNT)-team are very glad about the announcement that the project “ARCH: Ancient Coinage as Related Cultural Heritage” will be financed by the European Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage. We send our warmest congratulations to our colleagues in Spain, France and Great Britain and look very much forward to cooperating with them.

The Team of CNT wishes all friends and contributors to our database happy holidays and health and success in the New Year. In 2018 we will start a new series, our Coin of the Month section will change to Type of the Month.

Conference will take place in Perinthos-Herakleia (Tekirdağ/Marmara Ereğlisi) from 27 to 29 October 2017. Of the CNT-Team Ulrike Peter, Hristina Ivanova and Lily Grozdanova will present talks on their studies in Thracian numismatics. Would be great to see you there!

The team of CNT is very happy to announce that we keep going on with CNT for another three years from now on. Thanks to a second funding period granted by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) we are now able to improve our database. Our plan is to develop a type catalogue for the ancient Thracian coins. We look forward to another three years of research on Thracian coins and to cooperation with all of you!

Conference in Krakow from 28 June to 2 July 2017 with participation of Ulrike Peter and Bernhard Weisser of the CNT team. Read here more on the subject of the conference and find the complete programme.

Coinage, Forms and Strategies of Intercultural Commerce on the Black Sea Shore in the Classical and Hellenistic Eras. Workshop in Israel coming soon with participation of CNT team.

CNT takes part in the celebration of the 10th anniversary of IKMK (Interaktiver Katalog des Münzkabinetts Berlin) on May 20th in the Bode Museum Berlin. At 15:45 pm Ulrike Peter will present the progress of Corpus Nummorum Thracorum. A lot of other numismatic digitization projects will be introduced on this occasion. Click here for the detailed program.

Die Akademie sucht für das gemeinsam mit dem Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin durchzuführende und von der DFG geförderte Gemeinschaftsprojekt „Corpus Nummorum Thracorum – Klassifizierung der Münztypen und semantische Vernetzung über Nomisma.org“ zum 1. Mai 2017 eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in (mit Gelegenheit zur Promotion) in Teilzeit 50 % der tariflichen Arbeitszeit und befristet bis zum 30. April 2020.

Das Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften führen gemeinsam das Forschungsprojekt „Corpus Nummorum Thracorum – Klassifizierung der Münztypen und semantische Vernetzung über Nomisma.org“ durch. Im Rahmen dieses Projektes sind am Münzkabinett zwei Teilzeitstellen, befristet auf 36 Monate, zu besetzen.

Dr. habil. Vladimir Stolba (Univ. Aarhus): (Re)constructing civic and regional identities in the Classical and Hellenistic age: Coin typology as a place- and space-determined narrative. Lecture on Thursday, 9th March 2017,at 18.oo in the Study Room of the Coin Cabinet Berlin. We cordially invite you to participate!

The Team of CNT wishes all friends and contributors to our database happy holidays and health and success in the New Year. In 2017 we will start in our Coin of the Month section a new series. Every month someone of the team or of the contributors is going to present in brief his or hers favorite Thracian coin.

MONEY ON THE MARGINS: CONFERENCE ON ANCIENT BLACK SEA TRADE

The coinage minted in silver and bronze has been attributed to the Thracian Chersones and was interpreted as a corporate currency of the inhabitants of the peninsula.

If you haven't seen our exhibition in the Bode-Museum yet, there are just some weeks left to do so. The exhibition will end on October 15th 2016. We are looking forward to your visit!

The team of Corpus Nummorum Thracorum is happy and proud about winning the 2nd place at the Berlin DH Prize 2016. We cordially thank the jury for awarding our project; the prize is encouraging us to continue our work!

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 28.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten überschritten.

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 27.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten überschritten. Wir feiern damit unseren neunten Geburtstag (des IKMK) und den anstehenden Internationen Museumstag am 22. Mai.

Die 107 Münzen der Stadt Sestos aus dem Berliner Münzkabinett sind jetzt online!

On February 13th in the Gobelinsaal of the Bode-Museum our students colloquium on the coinages of Thrace took place. The visitors had also the chance to visit our exhibition 'Thrakien 3.0. Münzprägung im Land des Orpheus'.

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 26.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten überschritten.

Since October 16th you may visit in the Bode Museum on the Berlin Museum Island the Exhibition 'Thrakien 3.0. Münzprägung im Land des Orpheus'. Click here for more information and the press release in Greek, Bulgarian and German.

Did you miss to visit our poster in Taormina? No Problem at all! Here you will find as pdf for download the CNT poster and our flyer with information on the portal. NEU: Flyer jetzt auch auf deutsch!

Im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts sind jetzt sämtliche mit einem Objekt verknüpften (öffentlich zugänglichen) Personendaten sichtbar und werden, soweit vorhanden, mittels Normdaten ausgegeben. So erscheinen jetzt neben den bereits seit dem 18. April 2015 angezeigten Münzherren, Medailleuren, Dargestellte/n und Vorbesitzern sowie Veräußerern z.B. antike, mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche Münzmeister, -wardeine und -beamte, antike Magistrate (Archonten, Strategen u.a.) sowie Stempelschneider und Entwerfer. Auch für das Papiergeld werden Hersteller, Drucker, Unterzeichnende, Graveure und Graphiker usw. ausgegeben. Zudem finden sich unter dem kleinen i-Symbol weitere Informationen zur Person. Als weiterer Service an den Benutzer der Datenbank erscheint der Name des jeweiligen Photographen in der Druckansicht des Objekteintrages.

Dear colleagues and friends, the CNT team is looking forward to the INC in Taormina and to meet all of you so soon!

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 25.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten überschritten.

The "Survey of Numismatic Research" is printed every six years but it covers only the most important publications. Here you will find a more comprehensive list of the publications from 2008-2013 about the ancient Greek coinage in the Balkans and the North-Pontic area. By Vladimir F. Stolba and Ulrike Peter.

The coin issues from the historical territory of Thrace are known for their great diversity. The conference planned to discuss the current state of numismatic research on Thrace and to examine the opportunities offered by a cooperative assemblage of coins in the digital age. The occasion of the conference was to introduce the project CNT – Corpus Nummorum Thracorum – to the specialists for the numismatics of Thrace and especially its new portal www.corpus-nummorum.eu, which is collecting all Thracian coins worldwide and putting them into context.

Prior to the Conference 'Thrace - local coinage and regional identity: Numismatic research in the digital age' a meeting of the curators of Greek coins took place in the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften to report on the status quo of digitization of the several institutions and to discuss options of collaboration in the future.

Abstracts of the talks and program of the conference now online! Conference in Berlin, April 15th to 17th 2015. The coin issues from the historical territory of Thrace are known for their great diversity. In 2013 we began a research project on these various coinages. In our conference we plan to discuss the current state of numismatic research on Thrace and examine the opportunities offered by a cooperative compilation of coins in the digital age. The Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Berlin Coin Cabinet thus cordially invite you to Berlin.

Ulrike Peter, The Numismatic Web Portal for Ancient Coins of Thrace: http://www.corpus-nummorum.eu, in: Kayhan Dörtlük, Oğuz Tekin und Remziye Boyraz Syhan (Hrsg.), First international congress of the anatolian monetary history and numismatics, 25-28 February 2013 (Antalya 2014) 653-668.

Our website shows at the moment the first steps of our web portal on ancient Thracian coins. By now the Quick Search via free search terms, the Identification Search and the Advanced Search as well as a filter to refine your search results are available. More functions will follow soon, e.g. for users there will be a possibility to register and contribute to our work. So keep in touch and have a look at the progress of CNT.

From the 15th October 2015 to the 30th March 2016 there will be an exhibition in the Berlin Bode-Museum on the coinage of Thrace. We invite you to visit the exhibition and see lots of interesting coins from this cultural region.

CNT proudly announces the importing of another 520 Thracian coins of the Münzkabinett Berlin in the web portal. A few more coins from Thracian mints from the belongings of the Münzkabinett are thus visible in CNT, for example Serdika. Here you will find more informations on Serdika.

The Digital Humanities conference is an academic conference for the field of digital humanities. It is hosted by Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and has been held annually since 1990.

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 22.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten überschritten.

Bizye, Sitz des thrakischen Stammes der Asten und der letzten thrakischen Könige, liegt im europäischen Teil der Türkei (heute Vize).

Die 48 Bronzemünzen der Münzstätte Kardia aus den Beständen des Berliner Münzkabinetts sind jetzt online im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) einzusehen.

Mit den Münzen von Byzantion ist einer der größten Bestände (ca. 250 Münzen) einer thrakischen Stadtprägung des Berliner Münzkabinetts nun im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) online. Zusätzlich sind auch die gemeinsamen Prägungen von Byzantion und Kalchedon, das Byzantion auf der asiatischen Seite des Bosporus gegenüberliegt, erfasst.

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 21.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten erreicht. Seit dem 5. Juli 2013 ist damit ein weiteres Tausend Datensätze online gestellt worden.

Die in Berlin befindlichen Münzen von Augusta Traiana sind nun im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) dokumentiert.

Mit der Bronzeprägung von Alopekonnesos ist eine weitere Münzstätte der thrakischen Chersones nun im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts erfasst.

Seit heute ist ein virtueller Rundgang durch die vier Dauerausstellungsräume des Münzkabinetts im Bode-Museum möglich. Raumpläne und verschiedene Ansichten der Räume 241-244 ermöglichen einen Gang durch die Ausstellung. Auswählbare Einzelansichten der Vitrinen sind mit dem Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) verknüpft. Eine englischsprachige Benutzeroberfläche sowie eine Hilfe-Funktion sind verfügbar.

Die Stadt Aigospotamoi lag an der Ostküste der thrakischen Chersones und prägte im 4. Jh. v. Chr. einige Bronzemünzen. Die Berliner Exemplare finden sich jetzt im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK).

Am 11. und 12. Oktober 2013 findet in Münster zum achten Mal der „Tag der Antiken Numismatik“ statt. Einzelvorträge am Samstag, den 12. Okt., von 10-18 Uhr, am Vorabend Vortrag um 19 Uhr.

Am Anfang des 2. Jahrhunderts von Traianus gegründet, prägte Traianopolis kleine Bronzeserien von Marcus Aurelius bis Gordianus III.

Die Münzen von Nikopolis ad Mestum finden sich jetzt im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts.

Das Münzkabinett nimmt als eine von mehreren Einrichtungen der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin am Internationalen 'Ask a Curator Day 2013' (18. September 2013) teil.

16. Treffen des Arbeitskreises Experimentelle Numismatik in Berlin. 12. September 2013, Münzkabinett, Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel und 13. September 2013, Rathgen-Forschungslabor, Schlossstraße 1 A.

Zwei thrakische Münzstätten an der Propontis.

Die Bestände des Berliner Münzkabinetts zu den thrakischen Münzstätten Kypsela, Kabyle und Linon sind jetzt im Interaktiven Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) dokumentiert.

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der Interaktive Katalog des Münzkabinetts (IKMK) die Zahl von 20.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten erreicht.

Alle Münzen der thrakischen Münzstätte Krithote aus den Beständen des Münzkabinetts Berlin sind online.

In Menschenjahren bietet ein sechster Geburtstag einen wichtigen Entwicklungsschritt. Das Kind wird schulpflichtig und beginnt, die Grundkompetenzen wie Lesen, Schreiben und Rechnen zu erwerben. Der Online-Bestandskatalog des Münzkabinetts www.smb.museum/ikmk, am 20. Mai 2007 gestartet, feierte am Pfingstmontag 2013 seinen sechsten Geburtstag.

Mit dem heutigen Datum hat der IKMK die Zahl von 19.000 Münzen, Medaillen, Geldscheinen und anderen verwandten Objekten erreicht.

Seit heute stehen den Benutzern des IKMK zu den darin erfassten bisher knapp 1.400 Münzherren von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit Normdaten und weitere biographische Informationen mit Links zur GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek), Wikipedia und Dbpedia zur Verfügung. Vorausgegangen war eine im Jahre 2012 neu erstellte Personenverwaltung für den IKMK und eine Zusammenarbeit mit Wikimedia Deutschland. Hier konnten Autoren von Wikimedia die erforderlichen GND-Nummern einpflegen und so diese neue Ausgabefunktion mit Leben erfüllen.

Antike Münzen stellen bis heute das umfangreichste Quellenmaterial dar, das uns jene Epoche überliefert hat. Sie waren seit jeher ein Informationsmedium par excellence, insbesondere in der Antike, als andere Nachrichtenträger weniger verbreitet waren. In der Epoche der Renaissance wurden Münzen nicht nur bevorzugtes Sammelobjekt, sondern spielten eine wichtige Rolle bei der Wiederentdeckung der antiken Kultur. Die Viten der römischen Kaiser und ihre Bildnisse fanden besondere Aufmerksamkeit.

Am 26. und 27. Oktober 2012 findet in Münster zum siebten Mal der „Tag der Antiken Numismatik“ statt. Vorträge am Samstag, den 27. Okt., von 10-18 Uhr, am Vorabend Festvortrag um 19 Uhr.

Internationales Kolloquium in Athen, gemeinsam veranstaltet durch die Belgische Schule in Athen (EBSA) und die Französische Schule in Athen (EfA). Veranstaltungsort: École française d'Athènes, Didotou 6. Für weitere Informationen siehe unten bzw. unter www.ebsa.info und www.efa.gr.

On 20 May 2007, the Interactive Catalogue of the Numismatic Collection of the State Museums of Berlin was unveiled. The fifth anniversary of this comprehensive online catalogue of now more than 17’500 objects, was the occasion for a meeting of museum curators, who are each responsible for the care of ancient Greek coins. The morning was devoted to presentations on the state of digitization; the afternoon was devoted to discussion arising out of the presentations.