“Filling in the Blanks: Increasing the Representation of Late Antique and Early Medieval Coin Finds from Greece and Türkiye”

FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and Medieval Economy) is a digital numismatic project, based in Princeton University’s Firestone Library, which brings together an international team of scholars working on the minting and circulation of coinage in the period 325-750 CE in Afro-Eurasia. This workshop represents the culmination of its Heartlands Project, funded by a Humanities Council Magic Grant. It brings together four PhD students from Greece and Türkiye, who have spent the past year attempting to discover and digitize published and unpublished coin finds from their respective countries. The workshop is meant to expose the Princeton community to the challenges and opportunities for the discovery, digitization, and use of numismatic data for further understanding the economic transition between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

This workshop, as well as the entirety of the FLAME Heartland Project, was sponsored through the generous support of a Magic Grant from Princeton University’s Humanities Council. Magic Grants support new faculty-led projects that reimagine how the humanities are conceived or taught. They encourage bold, status-quo-defying intellectual work in the humanities that foster interdisciplinary collaborations and team-teaching, expand the curriculum with new modes of thought, and provide unique educational experiences to students.

A light reception will be offered following the workshop

Image: Mapping of distribution of Byzantine-era coin finds containing 40-nummi coins of Justinian I (527-565), FLAME Project Circulation Module