Numismatic eTexts

ColinCMR

Does anyone else save up collecting-related documents on their computer?

I have some tables of coin weights and names (especially for ancients) some other stuff like info on date conversions, alphabets of other languages and maps.

spoon

I'm currently working (slowly!) on a Wikipedia-styled site for coins, Numispedia. Once I clean up the backend hopefully we can get some good contributors and make an online reference for all.

elverno

I'm working, slowly, on a couple of projects to bring the standard Napoleonic era medal references online.

IronmanDuke

My library actually let me check out a copy of

HEATH’S GREATLY IMPROVED AND ENLARGED INFALLIBLE
GOVERNMENT COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR, AT SIGHT.

It's a very cool old book.

I took it home and transcribed the whole thing into a word document and scanned in all 17 plates. (Each one is 32 MB).

I was thinking of making it available, but suspect it violates copywrite laws... even if it's 140 years ago.

JZrarities

Since it is 100 years old it should be Public Domain.

This is a site that reproduced Barclay Head's book: Digital Historia Numorum

GDJMSP

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You bet - too many times I have found info I wanted to keep and just saved a link - only to find later that the web page or site was no longer available. So now - if I find something I want to keep - I copy the text & pics and save it on my hard drive.

In some cases this is not possible or practical - there is just too much. So about all I can do is save the link and pray !!

Here's a few links that some may find useful -

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

i-numis

Project Gutenberg