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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24708675, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s kind of a summary news story, not the actual archaeological work, so I wouldn&#039;t see that as an indication the archaeologists are ignoring the numismatic evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that gets bagged/documented, then cleaned/conserved, photographed, later cataloged, and eventually is part of the &quot;data analysis.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly after years or maybe sooner for preliminary reports. A lot of excavations keep going for decades (this one since the 1990s, looks like). Big excavation reports usually have chapters (or sometimes even volumes) summarizing the coin finds, sometimes describing and photographing every one, including mostly coins that a collector would consider basically worthless. At some sites they find coins spanning 1,000 years or more in different layers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Archaeologists tend to find coins useful for dating the site (and various contexts within) and sometimes telling about what kind of a site it was (temple, market, etc.) and what the people were up to (merchants, soldiers, tourists).</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, there&#039;s probably a similar post somewhere on the boards for ancient glass collectors and forums for collectors of ancient ceramics, asking why they&#039;re not making a big deal of those!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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