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DOI Artikel:Pelsdonk, Jan: The frontiers in Dutch coin research: Iron Age and Roman Republican coin finds in the Limes-area
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41338#0116
.IAN P ELS DON K
-find database NUMIS to a broad group of potential researchers. This was done
by conducting a smali research project. Included were coin finds (both hoards and
single finds) from the Iron Age (2,309), Roman Republic (989), and the emperor
Augustus (1,586), mostly found by metal detectorists. Not only did the article sum
up the known hoards and describe the new ones, but it also presented the difficulties
involved in dating the objects and determining the moment the hoards and single
finds were deposited. The Roman frontier - the limes - cuts the Netherlands into
two roughly equal parts (Fig. 1). This makes it possible to compare the effect
of the Roman presence on coin finds. The outcomes of the research are presented
in this paper.
PERIPHERAL REGION
Thanks to the finds of hoards and single finds recorded in NUMIS, with
the help of a powerful Computer program to plot coordinates on a map, and thanks to
the palaeographical maps created by the Nationale Onderzoeksagenda Archeologie
(National Archaeological Research Agenda) with data from the Cultural Heritage
Agency of the Netherlands, the coins - even if at first sight unappealing - give
insight into what was happening in the Netherlands in the late Iron Age and early
Roman period.
At the time, the researched area, nowadays known as the Netherlands, only
played a marginal role. The important oppida of the Celts and other Iron Age tribes
were located further south and south-east. Even in the Roman period, this part
of the empire lacked the high level of civilisation that was reached in Romę.
As a result, most of the hoards found in the Netherlands are smali.
The number of single finds is quite large in comparison with other countries,
mainly thanks to their registration in the Dutch coin-find database NUMIS.
Sadly, this database (with over 275,000 numismatic objects found on Dutch
soil) has been neglected over the last years. Previously, the database grew by
about 2-3,000 coins a year, but ever sińce the dissolution of the Geldmuseum
(Money Museum) in Utrecht at the end of 2013, and the transfer of the database
to the Dutch Central Bank, NUMIS has been understaffed. From then until
the end of 2015, the dataset was removed from the internet and remained yirtually
invisible for metal detectorists. The database will gradually come back on-line,
and at the moment of writing this text, 56,063 finds can be viewed at https://nnc.
dnb.n1/dnb-nnc-ontsluiting-frontend/#/numis/.
-find database NUMIS to a broad group of potential researchers. This was done
by conducting a smali research project. Included were coin finds (both hoards and
single finds) from the Iron Age (2,309), Roman Republic (989), and the emperor
Augustus (1,586), mostly found by metal detectorists. Not only did the article sum
up the known hoards and describe the new ones, but it also presented the difficulties
involved in dating the objects and determining the moment the hoards and single
finds were deposited. The Roman frontier - the limes - cuts the Netherlands into
two roughly equal parts (Fig. 1). This makes it possible to compare the effect
of the Roman presence on coin finds. The outcomes of the research are presented
in this paper.
PERIPHERAL REGION
Thanks to the finds of hoards and single finds recorded in NUMIS, with
the help of a powerful Computer program to plot coordinates on a map, and thanks to
the palaeographical maps created by the Nationale Onderzoeksagenda Archeologie
(National Archaeological Research Agenda) with data from the Cultural Heritage
Agency of the Netherlands, the coins - even if at first sight unappealing - give
insight into what was happening in the Netherlands in the late Iron Age and early
Roman period.
At the time, the researched area, nowadays known as the Netherlands, only
played a marginal role. The important oppida of the Celts and other Iron Age tribes
were located further south and south-east. Even in the Roman period, this part
of the empire lacked the high level of civilisation that was reached in Romę.
As a result, most of the hoards found in the Netherlands are smali.
The number of single finds is quite large in comparison with other countries,
mainly thanks to their registration in the Dutch coin-find database NUMIS.
Sadly, this database (with over 275,000 numismatic objects found on Dutch
soil) has been neglected over the last years. Previously, the database grew by
about 2-3,000 coins a year, but ever sińce the dissolution of the Geldmuseum
(Money Museum) in Utrecht at the end of 2013, and the transfer of the database
to the Dutch Central Bank, NUMIS has been understaffed. From then until
the end of 2015, the dataset was removed from the internet and remained yirtually
invisible for metal detectorists. The database will gradually come back on-line,
and at the moment of writing this text, 56,063 finds can be viewed at https://nnc.
dnb.n1/dnb-nnc-ontsluiting-frontend/#/numis/.