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11th Annual Meeting of the European Coin Find Network 6th-8th November 2024

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.

Meeting of the Digital Numismatics Working Group, DARIAH-EU

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.

Thank you Sofia!

Thank you to Dilyana Boteva, Julia Tzvetkova, Lily Grozdanova, Ilya Prokopov and Valentina Grigorova-Gencheva, and all the team from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” for hosting us – physically and virtually – for four days of excellent papers and networking, and an amazing trip to Heraclea Sintica.

Dilyana Boteva opens the meeting
Dilyana Boteva opens the meeting in the magnificent Aula of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

You made the 10th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org, and the 2nd Bulgarian Numismatic Readings a great success!
59 presentations, 29 posters and 3 workshops!

The programme and book of abstracts are available here

Photo gallery

CELTIC COIN INDEX DIGITAL (CCID) goes live!

The School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, is pleased to announce the launch of the website: Celtic Coin Index Digital (CCID). The CCID is an online archive that provides access to one of the world’s largest datasets of Iron Age coins in Britain: the Celtic Coin Index (CCI). The CCI has been housed in the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford since 1964. The paper card index now holds nearly 85,000 records of around 68,000 specimens of Iron Age coins – these cards and their related images and data are now available on the CCID website.

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