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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24830374, member: 26430"]Very good! I keep close track of any publication whatsoever of my coins, including "digital plate coins" (or "virtual plate coins" as Sulla called them above). I'm always more excited to find a coin published in a new book or article in print, but you could make a case that the wildwinds coins have much more total exposure and educational impact. I think I may have only ever submitted a single coin of my own to wildwinds. In 2013, and for a long time after, it was the only specimen photographed:[ATTACH=full]1590018[/ATTACH] I look up all my new coins on Wildwinds to see if they're illustrated. I've found maybe 10, give or take. On several occasions they've included additional background information that was new to me (in the text link). For the coin below, finding it on wildwinds led me to several more links in the chain of prior collections (and several more websites & online references): [ATTACH=full]1590020[/ATTACH] Incidentally, I keep a folder for screenshots of all these finds and record the URLs in my provenance file so I won't lose track. I use them to construct the individual "object biography" for each coin. If you really want to understand a topic (like ancient coins), I think it's important pay close attention to how the "data" is organized, where and between whom it flows, which audiences use which references, who contributes, how different references are related (e.g., whether die-studies draw data from sources like Wildwinds and private collections, or rely on museum collections, etc.)... Each little bit of "object biography" plays only a small role, but it all adds up.[/QUOTE]

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