New Web Project about classical roman and greek coins

[abramo.pavan]

Dear all,
I have just started a project to create an online catalogue of roman coins and references to articles and websites about classical coins.

www.nummusantiqua.com

What do you think about that? Any suggestion will be helpfull!

[areich]

Hi Abramo, one thing that would be good in my opinion would be to have separate Italian and English versions of the site, instead of the bilingual site. It would make things easier to read and you would have more information on each page.

The 'our collection' part of the site only has single pictures. I think that one picture that shows obverse and reverse and a description of the coin would be better.

Andreas

[abramo.pavan]

Hi Andreas,
thank you for your kind help! I will evaluate changes you suggested me.

Best regards

Abramo

[Andrew McCabe]

It is a nice site with nice coins.

I suggest you think carefully about the objectives of the site. Most of the best coin sites specialise in something. You have about 4 coins of each emperor but each are in fabulous condition. If you really want to make an online catalogue you will need maybe 500 coins of each emperor and most will be not so nice. I don't think you want to do that. Other sites have tried the same thing e.g. Wildwinds and Coinproject. You do not want to compete with those sites.

So you should consider making the purpose of your site to show a representative selection of the portraits and the obverse types of each emperor using very nice quality coins. That way, already with 4 coins per emperor, you have achieved your objective. Then gradually you could expand to include all the obverse types and over  time a selection of reverses.

Since you have started with high quality coins I advise you to continue with high quality coins. It is also better, if you can, to illustrate coins that are not found on other sites. There is little point of all the coins can already be found on CNG or acsearch.

I think it is a great start. You should think carefully about your objectives and purpose.

[abramo.pavan]

Dear all,
I have just added new coins to the free online coins catalogue of roman coins

Hadrian (5 new) http://www.nummusantiqua.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=455

Caracalla (5 new) http://www.nummusantiqua.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=761

What do you think about that?

Abramo

[areich]

What system do you use for sorting the coins? It looks like the coins under each emperor are displayed in a random order. You have your own number "Pavan XXX" but there seems to be no system behind it.

[abramo.pavan]

I always put on the top of the page the newest coin, so when somebody goes into the page will see last updates for each emperor.

[areich]

As Andrew said, you have to think what the purpose of the site is and what the user may want to use the site for. For identification, just to look at nice coins, something else? I don't think the current sorting or the Pavan number is useful to a visitor of the site.