Ancient Mint Maps

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Virgil H:
I am considering attempting to create an overlay(s) for ancient maps on the Pleiades mapping site that I posted about recently to show ancient mints. I decided to search around to see if this has already been done. It appears it has been to a point, but not quite what I have in mind and these are not complete. They are interesting and useful. Here is a link:
http://ancientnomosart.org/exhibits/category/ancient-mints-mapping/

If anyone knows of other maps that identify mints in all or some periods of ancient history, I would love to see them.

Thanks,
Virgil

n.igma:
The ANS series of portals show the mint location and find location of each type of coin under the relevant coin entry ... example attached from Seleucid Coins Online (SCO) http://numismatics.org/sco/

Other portals include:
http://coinhoards.org/ ... shows location of mints that produced coins in a hoard
http://numismatics.org/pella/ ... for Alexander mints
http://numismatics.org/pco/ ... Ptolemaic coinage
http://numismatics.org/agco/ ... Antigonid coinage
http://numismatics.org/hrc/ ... Hellenistic coinages

Each of these has a Maps function that plots the mints on an interactive scalable map. e.g. for Seleucid mints .... http://numismatics.org/sco/maps (see small scale map below)

The ANS MANTIS database has the same functionality for all coinages and times (click on MAPS for the drop down menu) ... (a couple example of MANTIS attached below)

http://numismatics.org/search/department/Greek

Pekka K:

RPC online shows provincial mints on map:

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/map

Pekka K

Altamura:

--- Quote from: n.igma on February 02, 2021, 09:41:43 pm ---... The ANS MANTIS database has the same functionality for all coinages and times (click on MAPS for the drop down menu) ... (a couple example of MANTIS attached below) ...
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But with many wrong and missing mints :(.

Two Greek mints in the UK ???
No coins minted under the Romans in Trier ???

Again there are some severe problems with the data quality in these ANS systems :-\.

Regards

Altamura

Virgil H:
Thank you n.igma, Pekka, and Altamura,

I spent some time with the ANS maps last night, as well as the RPC map some this morning. Not enough time, but to try to get a feel for them. The RPC map is more along the lines of what I was thinking of. That one also shows some mints missing on the ANS maps.

The ANS maps are impressive, but way too complicated and easy to miss things or just get confused :). At least for me. For serious scholars researching specific topics, I can see their usefulness. Also, they seem to be a collaborative effort, so I imagine that missing mints could be added once one fully understands all the filters. I am going to go deeper into both as these are just my initial impressions.

Thanks again, there is no need for me to reinvent the wheel other than create perhaps a specific map for myself that shows what I specifically want to see, but the raw materials for that are already here.

Virgil

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