Project objectives

Publication of the collection

Publication of the ancient Greek coins in the Coin Cabinet, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: It illustrates the object-historical dimension of numismatic iconography. With 110,845 objects, the collection is one of the five most important in the world.

Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum Online

Development of an image thesaurus: The Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum is based on Linked Open Data, uses persistent identifiers and standardized exchange formats and enables a context-related analysis of ancient images.

Digital Infrastructure and AI Tools

These make it possible to link the various communication and contextual levels of the coins and facilitate their analysis.

Scientific image analysis

Exemplary assessment: The collection will be examined with regard to central questions of visual and cultural history.