OCRE Roman Coins Database Upgraded and Expanded

kaparthy · Feb 7, 2014

The E-Sylum weekly email carried a report about the Online Database of Coinage of the Roman Empire: OCRE, which apparently does not turn stringy and runny when you boil it but does include 50,000 Roman coin types.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 27, 2014
OCRE – Online Database of Coinage of the Roman Empire becomes Bigger, Multi-Contributor and Multi-Lingual

In collaboration with New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the American Numismatic Society ANS) is pleased to announce the release of a new version of OCRE Online Coins of the Roman Empire) numismatics.org/ocre/). The OCRE project is creating a revolutionary new tool designed to help in the identification, cataloguing, and research of the rich and varied coinage of the Roman Empire. It aims to provide a comprehensive online resource encompassing every known Roman Imperial coin type. The end result will be:
• A database of 50,000 coin types
• A resource that collectors can use to identify their coins, estimate their rarity, and discover
unknown varieties.
• An online reference tool for researchers to help in new research on this important series.
• Easy to use, downloadable catalogue entries for the coinage of every Roman Emperor from
Augustus in 31 BC, until the death of Zeno in AD 491.
http://numismatics.org/wikiuploads/NewsEvents/2014_0127_PR_OCRE_.pdf[/QUOTE]

And also an except here from another release note:

The current version provides links to examples present in the ANS collection, the Roman Imperial collection of the Münzkabinett of the State Museum of Berlin and the University of Virginia Art Museum. Between these three collections, OCRE is now able to illustrate 50% of the imperial coin types that it contains. Moving forward, as more collections join the project, it will eventually incorporate and display almost all recorded Roman Imperial coin-types.
http://www.numismatics.org/ocre/
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OCRE also allows users to search in 10 languages other than English, made possible by Nomisma.org'slinked open data technologies.

OCRE can now link to another ANS developed resource, Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic. This enables OCRE to draw on findspot data for some early imperial coin types, and map their distribution.

To get started, use one of the Browse, Search or Maps interfaces via the tool bar above.

OCRE is a Numishare tool based on the stable numismatic identities established by the Nomisma project.
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Bing · Feb 7, 2014

I randomly typed in Trajan with salus reverse and it took me to a listing of all Trajan coins with this reverse. I like this database and have it bookmarked.

TIF · Feb 7, 2014

Are there any such online catalog projects for Roman Provincials, existing or planned? I've seen one but it appears to be limited to A. Pius through Commodus.

chrsmat71 · Feb 7, 2014

cool, thanksf or that.

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