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Call for Papers: 13th Annual Meeting of the European Coin Find Network (ECFN) and Nomisma.org

The Call for Papers and Posters is now open for the European Coin Find Network sessions on 17-18 September 2026.

The sessions will be dedicated to the presentation of research on coin finds of all periods, with particular attention to digital methodologies, innovative tools for the analysis of numismatic records, and strategies for public communication and outreach. The call is open to all scholars. The preferred language for papers and posters is English, but papers in Italian should be accompanied by a PowerPoint in English.
The proceedings of the ECFN sessions will be published according to modalities that will be communicated during the conference.

Download the Call for Papers (English and Italian) here.

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13th Annual Meeting of the European Coin Find Network and Nomisma.org, Bari, 15th-18th September 2026

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The conference website is now online: https://www.13ecfn-nomisma.org/

We are delighted to announce that the 13th Meeting of the European Coin Find Network (ECFN) and Nomisma.org will take place at the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Department of Humanities Research and Innovation on September 15th-18th 2026.

Thank you Federico Carbone for the invitation and agreeing to host the meeting!

There will be a two-day Nomisma.org workshop on September 15th-16th, followed by a two-day conference of the European Coin Find Network on September 17th-18th

DISCO – Digital Inventory of Swiss Coin Finds

At a workshop on August 28, 2025 in Bern, the new DISCO database – Digital Inventory of Swiss Coin Finds – was presented.

The database will be the central tool of the Inventory of Coin Finds from Switzerland for processing, evaluating and cataloging coin finds from Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and will be available both as linked open research data and in print.

Alejandro Peña (Render SA) presents Dédalo
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Thank you UCL Institute of Archaeology!

… and of course Kris Lockyear for hosting us and Murray Andrews for all his help! We enjoyed two days of excellent papers, inspiring discussions and networking, as well as a wonderful trip to the Roman baths at Welwyn and Verulamium.

Group photo ECN 2025
The participants of the 12th Meeting of ECFN

Thank you also to all the participants. You made the 12th Meeting of ECFN a great success! Now on to Bari next year!

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European Coin Find Network 2025 Meeting – Programme

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This year’s meeting of the European Coin Find Network is taking place at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London on Thursday 4th – Friday 5th September.

The final programme is available here.

Registration is still open!

Register for the meeting here https://form.jotform.com/251975110756359

UCL Institute of Archaeology (Image source: http://www.ucl.ac.uk)

Pre-conference coach trip to Welwyn and Verulamium

Wednesday 3rd September.
Meeting point: 9.30 am, Montague Place (behind the British Museum).
Returning: 5pm and 6pm (depending on traffic!)

Registration is now open for the European Coin Find Network 2025 Meeting!

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This year’s meeting of the European Coin Find Network is taking place at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London on Thursday 4th – Friday 5th September.

The provisional programme is available here.

Register for the meeting here https://form.jotform.com/251975110756359

UCL Institute of Archaeology (Image source: http://www.ucl.ac.uk)

A pre-conference coach trip to Welwyn and Verulamiumwill take place on Wednesday 3rd September.

ECFN 2025 – Call for Papers

The 12th meeting of the European Coin Find Network (ECFN) will be held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London on September 4th-5th 2025.

We invite paper proposals on any aspect of the study of coin finds especially:
· Digital aspects of the recording and analysis of coins, coin collections and coin finds;
· the application of Al to the study of coin finds;
· coins, coin finds and the public.
Papers are invited for longer form (15 + 5 minutes) and in lightning form (5 minutes).
Posters proposals are also welcome.

Registration will be open soon.

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CoinFindsViewer: a new project for the visualisation of Roman coin finds

The CoinFindsViewer project, directed by Stefan Krmnicek, Faculty of Humanities, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, represents the first large-scale visualization of Roman coin find data in southern Germany. It enables users to interactively explore the dataset along the Roman frontier, the Limes, and its hinterland across various historical periods. CoinFindsViewer emerged from a collaboration between the Master’s specialization in Digital Humanities and Project B02 of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391.

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