Monetary CHANGE in Ancient Anatolia 630-30 BC
We are immensely grateful to Yavuz Selim Güler, the Supervisor of Collections of the Pera Museum, for generously offering to host the conference at the Museum 8-9 January 2026.
'Monetary CHANGE in Ancient Anatolia 630-30 BC' is the concluding conference of the CHANGE project, grant agreement no: 865680 which has received funding from the ERC Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. An international cohort of specialists have been invited to make use of the project's new digital resources as they prepare their research papers. These include:
1. The Typology ( https://greekcoinage.org/iris/results) The Typology has recently benefitted from a proof-read by one of our postdoctoral researchers, Oliver Clarke. One of our Doctoral students, Fiona Phillips, has added coin legends for numerous areas. You will find areas such as Caria and Lycia now well-provided for (see e.g. https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/telmessus_hoff_2017_m300). She will be completing that work in the Autumn.
2. The Excavation Coins database (https://change.csad.ox.ac.uk/sitefinds/) now contains references to over 11000 coins. The full list of publications and dissertations incorporated can be found in the Zotero Library here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5615864/change_project_site_finds_database/library In addition, we have now exported this data to Nomisma, which means that excavation findspots turn up also in the typology (see e.g. https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/sardes_hochard_2020_4.11).
3. The first section of hoard data on coinhoards.org http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1244. The first section of the hoard material organised by Leah Lazar, covering hoards in IGCH has been updated, tagged with IRIS types, and with the help of Ethan Gruber at the ANS now uploaded to Coinhoards.org. This also means that hoard provenances are also appearing in the IRIS typology (see e.g. https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/side_leschhorn_1989_1-23). One of our doctoral students, Finn Conway, is now working to complete the data from Coin Hoards volumes, and we hope to have this ready by October.
4. The database of inscriptions TEMEA (https://change.csad.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions). This provides a searchable inventory of epigraphic testimony for monetary use and activity in the Anatolian peninsula and its offshore islands from the 7th to 1st centuries BCE, spanning the origins of coinage to the onset of the Roman imperial period. It is a compilation of 11,000 inscriptions from this region and period.
5. Collections. We have now completed the cataloguing of the Collections in London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and Oxford. The majority of coins in Paris, Berlin and London now appear in IRIS. Oxford and Copenhagen are currently in spreadsheet format, but hopefully will be uploaded shortly.
Programme
Day 1. Thursday, 8th of January
8.45- 9.00: Registration
9.00-9.05, Welcome: Yavuz Selim Güler, Pera Museum.
Session 1. The big picture | Chair, Oğuz Tekin (Koç University, Istanbul)
9.05-9.45, Andrew Meadows (University of Oxford): 'The view from 30,000 feet: coin production in Ancient Anatolia'.
9.45- 10.15, François de Callataÿ (Bibliothèque royale de Belgique): 'The CHANGE and SILVER databases: comparing the numbers'.
10.15-10.45, Alain Bresson & Walter Shandruk (University of Chicago): 'A network analysis of monetary circulation in fourth century Asia Minor (before Alexander’s conquest)'.
10.45-11.15: Coffee
Session 2. Archaic and Classical coinages | Chair, Bernhard Weisser (State Museum Berlin)
11.15-11.45, Peter van Alfen (American Numismatic Society, New York): 'The weight standards and denominations of the Archaic silver coinages of Asia Minor: a global approach'.
11.45-12.15, Oliver Clarke ( University of Oxford): 'Small CHANGE: early low denomination silver from the Maeander valley'.
12.15-12.45, Jarosław Bodzek, (Jagiellonian University,Kraków): 'The CHANGE project database and a classification of early Tarsian coinage'.
12.45-13.15: Discussion
13.15- 14.00: Lunch
Session 3. The epigraphic evidence | Chair, Alain Bresson (University of Chicago)
14.00-14.30, Charlotte Van Regenmortel (University of Liverpool) 'Monetary modalities in the Anatolian epigraphic habit: the view from TEMEA (The Epigraphy of the Monetary Economy of Anatolia)'
14.30-15.00, Marcus Chin ( University of Oxford): 'Public building and the scale of the monetary economy'.
15.00-15.30, Helmut Lotz (University of Vienna): 'Some numismatic problems in the Hellenistic inscriptions from Didyma'.
15.30-16.00: Discussion and Tea
Session 4. Regional views: the coast | Chair, Andrew Meadows (Oxford)
16.00-16.30, Finn Conway ( University of Oxford): 'The scale of monetary production in Ionia: a case study'.
16.30-17.00, Aliye Erol (Istanbul University): 'Coin circulation in and from Pamhylia: evidence from excavation and hoard data'.
17.00-17.30: Discussion
Day 2 | Friday 9th Jan
Session 5. Regional views: inland | Chair, Ulrike Peter (BBAW Berlin)
9.00-9.30, Ahmet Tolga Tek (Anadolu University): 'Pushing boundaries: the cases of Kleonnaia and Toriaion'.
9.30-10.00, Hüseyin Köker (Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta): 'A comparison of CHANGE and Turkish museums' datasets: a case study on Pisidian coins (4th-1st century BC)'.
10.00-10.30, Noah Kaye (Michigan State University): 'The politicization of Pisidia: museum coins as a proxy for urban change'.
10.30-11.00: Coffee
Session 6. Bronze | Chair, Frédérique Duyrat (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
11.00-11.30, Leah Lazar (University of Manchester): 'The use of bronze coinage in Classical and early Hellenistic Asia Minor'.
11.30-12.00, Selene Psoma (University of Athens): 'Bronze denominations: from the Classical to the Hellenistic period'.
12.00-12.30, Aneurin Ellis-Evans (University of Oxford): 'Monetisation and Hellenisation in inland Asia Minor from the peace of Apamea to Augustus'.
12.30-13.00, Lucia Carbone (ANS, New York): 'The transition from “Strabonian regions” to conventus in the Provincia Asia as seen through bronze civic coinage (133 BCE – first century CE)'.
13.00-13.30: Discussion
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.00: Wrap up.
15.00-16.00: Tour of the Pera Museum's Anatolian weights and measures gallery, with Yavuz Güler
16.00-17.00: Advisory Board Meeting
