8000 coins from the BnF have been added to OCRE

More than 8,000 Roman Imperial coins from the Bibliothèque nationale de France have been integrated into Online Coins of the Roman Empire. This is a significant addition to the project, but does not represent the fully body of the BnF's material. The import includes the issues from Augustus to Trajan, a portion of the Hadrianic collection, and later coins from Carus to Diocletian.

This represents the BnF's first contribution to OCRE after providing large amounts of Roman Republican and Hellenistic coinage and a modest number of British Iron Age coinage to Iron Age Coins in Britain. Presently, the Bibliothèque nationale has made nearly 40,000 coins available in the numismatic Linked Open Data cloud.

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Thanks @Roman Collector for the notification. I use OCRE and CRRO not enough and I should use it more. When browsing through CRRO just now (yes, I had a few minutes to spare during making dinner for the family!) I noted that our national financial supervisory authority has an extensive coin collection. I did not know that! And some of the specimens are amazing. I've just seen the first few pages, and some of the aureii are beautiful, and rare, such as an aureus with Plotina and Matidia on obverse and reverse respectively.