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Developments and Preliminary Release for the Roman Republican Die Project
Richard Schaefer began collecting images of
Roman Republican coins and organizing these images by one die, either obverse or reverse based on which was most distinctive for each type (Figs. 1 and 2).
Figure 1. An image of some of the drawers in Schaefer’s office, containing pre-processed clippings of specimen images.
Figure 2. Digitized pre-processed clippings on Archer (this specimen RRC 348/5).
In Summer 2020, the
Archer) and connected relevant pages to the types in
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO). Then in November, the ANS received a grant for a two-year pilot project to build a database capable of reflecting Schaefer’s die analyses and enabling that work to be expanded in the future by both Schaefer and the ....

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