American Numismatic Society joins Iron Age Coins in Britain

The American Numismatic Society has a modest collection 65 coins that have been identified and cataloged with Ancient British Coins numbers published by the Oxford Institute of Archaeology's Iron Age Coins in Britain project. Only a few of these have been photographed so far. Much like the ANS's integration with our only published digital type corpora, MANTIS pulls typological data and associated Nomisma linked open data in real time in order to display more complete and accurate data than our own internal cataloging, making it possible to display maps and use standardized terminologies for rulers, "tribes," denominations, etc. for faceted browsing.

Joined with the modest collections from Berlin and Paris and the massive collections from the British Museum and Portable Antiquities Scheme (which includes part of Oxford's Celtic Coins Index), there are nearly 40,000 individual specimens linked to Iron Age British coin types.