16-18 September 2024

CHANGE workshop

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.

As part of the CHANGE project, the coin types of Asia Minor will be published. CN will integrate the types from Mysia and the Troad. For the benefit of users of the overarching ARCH portal (https://greekcoinage.org/arch/), it is important to establish the types according to the same criteria.
Within the CHANGE project, these coin types will be enriched with additional information, primarily hoard evidence and coin finds. Two databases have already been published: one on hoards found in Anatolia (or elsewhere but containing Anatolian coins), based on data from the coinhoards.org platform, and another dataset containing approximately 9,500 coins from Turkish excavations, minted between c. 700 and 30 BC (https://change.csad.ox.ac.uk/sitefinds/index.html). Additionally, a corpus of epigraphic material from across Anatolia on the development of money and coinage has been released (https://change.csad.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions).
The invited speakers clearly demonstrated how this newly organized evidence can be used, highlighting the new questions that can now be addressed, as well as those that remain unresolved. There is hope that, in the near future, these valuable sources will become even more interconnected.
We sincerely thank the hosts for their generous invitation and look forward to continued collaboration.

Author: Ulrike Peter