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6 hours ago, FitzNigel said:

Sounds good!  By the way, thanks for setting this up @Restitutor!  I just had a thought though - would it be worth having a separate forum/topic for numismatic books?  I was thinking about migrating my book reviews over here…

A Numismatic Literature forum sounds like a great idea to me 👍

Hi Ryro and thank you!  The main (black) bar at the top of each rnumis page should show an EXPLORE menu. There you should see a link to Ancient Greek Coin Provenance.

Let me know if you have any issues! Thanks!

Cheers,

Steve

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

1 hour ago, dougsmit said:

Glad to see you here.  I was unaware of your page and database but look forward to examining it more fully.  First visit displayed a few hundred coins that match the general search parameters I inserted (under 2g, Sicily) but failed to match the types I was seeking.  I suspect a lot of this is that old collections tended to avoid the smaller coins I collect.  It is easier to find a dekadrachm than a hemiobol.  I hope you will become an active participant here.

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