The best evidence for the circulation and use of high-value coins in the ancient world comes from hoards, groups of coins buried for a variety of reasons, including for safe-keeping. Analysing the coins in hoards can tell us about how they moved from one place to another, what other money they were used alongside, and roughly when they were deposited and even produced. A statistical approach to groups of coin hoards can illuminate broader economic patterns over time.
The CHANGE Project has compiled a dataset of coin hoards buried in Anatolia or containing Anatolian coins. The dataset is now integrated into coinhoards.org, a bigger digital resource for the study of Greek coin hoards, hosted by the American Numismatic Society. Some Anatolian hoards published in the 1973 Inventory of Greek Coin Hoards were already published on the site. Finn Conway, CHANGE research assistant, has now linked the coins in these hoards to the ARCH typology (https://greekcoinage.org/arch/). Leah Lazar, CHANGE research associate, has compiled data on around 700 additional hoards listed in the ten volumes of Coin Hoards, supplementing with information from the original publications and archival material. These hoards are now listed in coinhoards.org with CHANGE inventory numbers.
