Another fantastic online numismatic resource courtesy of the
ANS who doe their
membership (and others) great service ....
Announcement
http://numismatics.org/pco-pr/ As
part of the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project,
Ptolemaic Coins Online (PCO) is a new research tool that will ultimately provide wide access to the coins listed in the print volumes of Coins of the
Ptolemaic Empire by Catharine C.
Lorber, the first attempt to provide a new, comprehensive
standard typology and
catalogue for the coinage produced by the
Ptolemaic dynasty of
Egypt since Ioannis
Svoronos’s Τα νομίσματα του κράτους των Πτολεμαίων published in 1904–1908. The print volumes of Coins of the
Ptolemaic Empire will eventually appear in four parts: Volume I appeared in 2018 covering the gold and silver coinage (
Part I) and bronze coinage (
Part II) of
Ptolemy I (r. 323–282 BC) through
Ptolemy IV (r. 221–204 BC). Volume II covering the gold and silver coinage (
Part I) and bronze coinage (
Part II) of
Ptolemy V (r. 203–181 BC) through
Cleopatra VII (r. 51–30 BC) is expected to appear in print by 2020. The current version of PCO, released in December 2018, covers the coinage found in Volume I,
Part I of Coins of the
Ptolemaic Empire; in early 2019 PCO will be updated to include the coins found in Volume I,
Part II. Subsequent updates to PCO will occur when Volume II of Coins of the
Ptolemaic Empire is released.
While the
Ptolemaic coins in the
ANS collection (some 3,371 pieces) serve as the core of the searchable
catalogue, an effort will be made to illustrate all
types in the database, ultimately with links to coins in the Bibliothèque nationale de
France, the British Museum, the Münzkabinett der Staatliche Museen zu
Berlin, and other public and private
collections.
Users should note that
catalogue is searchable both by Coins of the
Ptolemaic Empire (CPE)
catalogue numbers and
Svoronos (Sv)
catalogue numbers.
Database
http://numismatics.org/pco/?fbclid=IwAR2sAa31ax3P3vsU_NYTjk5qbxa8S4UcwL9eEAnCTIhj-HyCRsXmylftilU