Friday, October 31, 2025

Department of Classics at Cologne joins Nomisma

More than 100 Seleucid and Ptolemaic coins from the Department of Classics at the University of Cologne have been integrated into the Hellenistic Royal Coinages platform, the first tranche of a collection consisting of over 12,000 specimens. This is, in fact, the second collection housed at the University of Cologne to join Nomisma, the other associated with the Department of History and part of the NUMID consortium.

A Department of Classics coin among CPE I.2 B126

 

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Princeton University joins Nomisma LOD cloud

The Princeton University numismatic collection has bee integrated into the Nomisma.org Linked Open Data cloud, with almost 3,600 coins linked to coin types in Online Coins of the Roman Empire, Coinage of the Roman Republic Online, and the various portals that fall under Hellenistic Royal Coinages. The majority of the coins have been photographed and are accessible as zoomable IIIF images. Although many coins are from excavations, e.g., Antioch, the contextual information is not yet expressed is LOD to populate geographic visualizations associated with types and Nomisma concepts as this phase. At some point, we should expect to see a large submission of Byzantine coinage from Princeton when the new joint typology project from Princeton-Dumbarton Oaks is ready for publication.

 
 

A Princeton coin among among others of Seleucid Coins (part 2) 2363b