The past few days have been spent planning the changes to the Journal website, additions to our http://imperialcoins.com site and dusting off some of the old tools we had. In particular, we had an excellent “Attribution Assistant” that allowed visitors to search obverse legends of Roman Imperial coins and prior to moving to the new website format we had it developed and added the ability to search for Greek characters, allowing for searches of Roman Provincial coins. We did not get very far with adding provincial legends, but it was tested and worked rather well. Hopefully this will be one of the tools we will “dust off”, have developed further and put back on our site.
So far what we are working on is the “Ancient Resource Library” (translations of ancient texts), Numismatic Library (Books which are no longer protected by Copyright), Attribution Assistant and at some point we will post our collection of modern forgeries of ancient coins (We were very fortunate to have a large black cabinet loaned to us and I am in the process of photographing, cataloging and weighing/measuring over 200 coins)
What tools would YOU find useful?
We have also added a total of 61 new coins to our online inventory over the past month. More than half of these coins are decent “budget” coins.
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