Many congratulations to PIerre-Marie Guihard and his colleagues on the launch of a new version the online coin find database NUMMUS, covering ancient, medieval and modern coin finds.

Inventaire des trouvailles monétaires des périodes antique, médiévale et moderne

Initiated by the service de numismatique du Centre Michel de Boüard-CRAHAM (UMR CNRS 6273) de l’Université de Caen Normandie, Nummus 2 was developed together with the pôle Document numérique de la MRSH de Caen.

Members of the team are Pierre-Yves Buard MRSH, CNRS), Thibault Cardon (CRAHAM, CNRS), Vincent Geneviève (INRAP), Pierre-Marie Guihard, Jérôme Jambu, Guillaume Sarah (IRAMAT, CNRS), Pasupathy Subha-Sree, Anne Goloubkoff (MRSH, Université de Caen).

The NUMMUS online database is available here.

The Centre d’Études Alexandrines (CEAlex) has now published an online resource of the coins from excavations by the Centre: https://coins.cealex.org/.

At present the coins from the CEAlex excavations 1994-1997 at the Cricket Ground are online. More excavation sites will be added soon.

The 11th meeting of the European Coin Find Network (ECFN) will take place at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands on November 6th-8th.

Thank you Jan Pelsdonk for the invitation and agreeing to host the meeting!

The meeting itself will take place on November 6th-7th in the museum, with two full days of papers and posters.
There will be an optional excursion on November 8th.

The Call for Papers has now been published.

Registration will open soon

Information on accommodation and travel.

There are several hotels in Haarlem (see https://www.ebooking.com/gb/c/b-hotels-haarlem/) and the town is only 15 minutes by train from Amsterdam Central.

Haarlem is close to Schiphol Airport.
Taxis cost some 45,- € for a single trip,
There are direct buses to Haarlem train station (bus line 300, Connexxion Rnet, bus stops B8-B10). The bus stops are situated at Schiphol Plaza, right outside the arrivals hall. Price: about 5,50 € for a single trip. Duration: c. 40 minutes.
Fares are paid with credit card (coins and banknotes are not accepted). You tap in with the card on boarding, and tap out again when you leave the bus.
There is a frequent train service operating until late. It is easiest to travel via Leiden Central to Haarlem. At Leiden you change to an Intercity train to Amsterdam Central getting off at Haarlem. Price: about 8,10 € for a single trip. Duration c. 40 minutes
Tickets for the trains can be bought at machines close to the entrances to the platforms.

There will be a hybrid meeting of the Digital Numismatics Working Group at the DARIAH-EU Annual Event, Lisbon, Portugal.

16:00 – 17:30 on June 18, 2024

More details will follow.

The DARIAH Annual Events combine different forms of encounter and exchange between DARIAH researchers and the wider cultural heritage, arts and humanities, as well as computer, information and data science communities. This year’s event will explore the topic of workflows in the context of arts and humanities research from a technical, methodological, infrastructural and conceptual point of view.

For more details of the Annual Event visit the Event website.

We are delighted to announce that the location and date of the 2024 meeting has now been confirmed!

The meeting will take place at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands on November 6th-7th. An excursion is planned for the 8th.

Thank you Jan Pelsdonk for the invitation and agreeing to host the meeting!

The Call for Papers will follow soon.