New Portal on Coins of the Ostrogoths
The Münzkabinett Berlin and its partner institutions in Germany, Europe and the United States are pleased to announce the launch of a new digital type catalogue for the coinage of Ostrogoths in Italy in the 6th century.
The establishment of this online catalogue was funded by the Federal Program of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and comes with the kind permission of Spink Books in London and the authors of the printed corpus [Michael Andreas Metlich, The Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy and a stamp study by Theodahad Folles by M. A. Metlich and E. A. Arslan (London 2004)].
The digital type catalogue allows for the first time a freely available presentation of the coins of the migration period kingdom of the Ostrogoths in Italy, which are scattered across German and international museums. In addition to ikmk.net's partner institutions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, there is the American Numismatic Society (which also operates and maintains the servers) and the collection of the British Museum in London. Other collections can assign their holdings using the type links provided here and import them via an API interface.
Of particular importance is the new ability of now authorizing smaller and regional collections (in particular cooperation partners of the Coin Cabinet of the State Museums and members of the IKMK family) to be able to present their own holdings to an international audience here.
The website allows for the use of various search filters, map and object views.
The homepage is written in German and English, the individual type descriptions are in English using standardized concepts from nomisma.org with individual languages represented.
