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The SILVER website is a by-product of the SILVER ERC, led by Francis Albarède (ENS-Lyon)[1] who enthusiastically supported its creation. It has been conceived by Dr. Caroline Carrier[2] under the supervision of François de Callataÿ[3] and developped by Bernhard Krabina[4]. It is hosted at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR).

The SILVER website focuses on two types of numismatic data: die-studies of ancient coinages (DSD) and Greek overstrikes (GOD), with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the production and circulation of money in the Mediterranean basin in the broadest sense. It brings together and makes accessible two databases launched by François de Callataÿ in the 1990s.


Die Studies Database (DSD): 2,809 entries

The Die-Studies Database (DSD) aims to gather and make available all the produced die-studies for the Graeco-Roman world in its broad acceptance from Spain to India. It is intended to offer a key tool for putting monetary productions into perspective and estimating their volumes.

The DSD largely enlarges and improves the c. 630 cases collected and presented by the two Recueils quantitatifs de la production monétaire for the Greek world 1 2. Dr. Caroline Carrier has partly prepared the spreadsheets for some 1,800 coin die-studies. Additional help was provided by interns: Cloé Heemskerk (Brussels, ULB), Marie-Alix Bilgischer (Brussels, ULB), Baptiste Gil y Hurtado (Lyon, ENS), and Anamaria Baltă (Bucharest, University).

Greek Overstrikes Database (GOD): 3,019 entries

The Greek Overstrikes Database (GOD) aims to gather and make available all the known overstrikes for the Greek world in its broad acceptance from Spain to India whatever the metal (but gold overstrikes are rare). Overstrikes are of course a decisive tool for chronologies (what is below is before) but they also prove to be of fundamental importance for the study of coin circulation, especially for the silver flows, hence this development into the frame of the project SILVER.

The various material collected for GOD has been gathered since 2010 by François de Callataÿ with the great help of David MacDonald 3 4. Dr. Caroline Carrier has partly prepared the spreadsheets for some 1,900 overstrikes. Additional help was provided by interns: Sonia Hanczack (Lyon, ENS), Avrile Bigot--Bastian (Lyon, Lyon 2), Corentin Biron (Brussels, ULB), Aikaterini Remma (Thessaloniki, Aristotle University), Vincent-Vieux-Champagne (Lyon, Lyon 2), and Guillaume Wohnrau (Geneva, University).

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References

  1. ^  Callataÿ, François de (1997), Recueil quantitatif des émissions monétaires hellénistiques, Numismatique Romaine, Wetteren, X + 341 p.
  2. ^  Callataÿ, François de (2003), Recueil quantitatif des émissions monétaires archaïques et classiques, Numismatique Romaine, Wetteren, VII + 267 p.
  3. ^  Callataÿ, François de (2017), “Greek Overstrikes Database: a short presentation”, in Maria Caccamo Caltabiano et al. (eds.), XVth International Numismatic Congress. Taormina. Proceedings, I, Messina, 2017, p. 467-470.
  4. ^  MacDonald, David (2009), Overstruck Greek coins: studies in Greek chronology and monetary theory, Whitman Publishing, Atlanta.

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