rNumis

Hi everyone, I just joined here this morning and did say hello in an existing general thread. I mentioned there that I run rNumis.com. I have a couple of projects I've been working on for some time...resources that you may find interesting. One is a database of historical numismatic auctions (more ancient focused), often with links to online catalogs. The other is a provenance explorer - currently just for Ancient Greek Italy/Sicily, but that can be expanded. There is still a huge amount of work to be done with both projects, but I think there's enough information and functionality there for people to try it out now. Some of you - thanks @dougsmit and @Sulla80 - have already made some good observations and suggestions. Anticipating further conversation, I'm starting this dedicated thread so we can continue. Finally, thanks to @DonnaML, from whose post elsewhere I learned about this site. Cheers, Steve

Thank you, Doug, for the kind words and for checking out the website. It's a definitely a work in progress and I hope will improve as people try it and make suggestions. Those pre-war sales do tend to be overly heavy in certain types. Syracuse Tetradrachms for example. I already need to add some secondary filtering for those. There are just too many. I suspect that's what sold back then, and other interesting coins just didn't get photographed so much given the prevailing cost and catalog space considerations. At some point I'll probably start a standalone thread on the project and hopefully have a fuller discussion. Perhaps even along the lines of turning it into something more collaborative - that would be great for getting Italy/Sicily done more quickly, as well as expanding to other Ancient Greek regions, Roman, etc. Steve

Hi everyone - Steve Moulding here. I run rNumis.com. I've just joined and want to say hello. Thanks to @DonnaML for alerting external folks to this place and to @Restitutor for putting this together. It looks great. I look forward to being part of the community. Cheers, Steve