A View from a Coin Room: the COINS project and numismatic study

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A View from a Coin Room the COINS project and
numismatic study

• Jonathan Jarrett
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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A View from a Coin Room the COINS project and
numismatic study
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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A View from a Coin Room the COINS project and
numismatic study
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Screenshot from the Fitzwilliam Museums ADLiB
collections database
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Data Inwards databases and standards of record
Coin cataloguing, database design
Coins requiring different cataloguing approaches!
Left, an Austrian silver florin of Emperor
Franz-Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, 1890,
Fitzwilliam Museum CM.QC.4207-R right, a copper
Arab-Byzantine type fals of Hims, late
seventh-century, Fitzwilliam Museum PG.18950
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Coin and die-axis protractor
Obverse of coin aligned with orientation marker
Reverse of coin read off from counter (here
approx. 20)
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Coins of confused authority
Gold aureus of Emperor Vespasian in the name of
his son Titus, 75 C.E., Fitzwilliam Museum
CM.YG.1247-R
Silver denarius of Emperor Titus in the name of
his father Vespasian, 80-81 C.E., Fitzwilliam
Museum, CM.LS.3957-R
Reverse of 1952 Royal Mint penny in name of Queen
Elizabeth II of Great Britain, machined out and
replaced with a trimmed coin to make a
double-headed gambling piece, Fitzwilliam Museum,
CM.3141-2003
Coins not to scale!
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A screenshot from the Fitzwilliam Museums ADLiB
collections database, above, and a screen capture
of the search screen from the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxfords Roman Provincial Coinage database, right
Database sharing via CIDOC-C. R. M. and eXist-XML
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Silver penny of King Alfred the Great, London,
886-887 C.E., Fitzwilliam Museum, CM.1.3656-1990
Screen capture of search of the EMC database for
coins of Alfred (358 hits)
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The tale of Professor Mathisen
Professor Ralph Mathisen, University of Illinois
(photo from departmental webpage)
A hoard of seventh-century Byzantine gold solidi
found at Bet SheAn, Israel, 1998, and the
eighth-century pot in which they were found
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EVA Vienna 2008
Jonathan Jarrett Fitzwilliam Museum