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The Ancient Coins Counterfeits Scientific Network wins an award from DARIAH.EU

Mistakes as a source of knowledge: ACCSN 2.0 is one of the five award winners of the DARIAH Theme Call 2024-2026: Mistakes.

Coordinated by Lily Grozdanova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”), ACCSN 2.0 deals with the challenges of identifying forgeries of ancient numismatic material, requiring as it does practical work and precise analysis of the counterfeits themselves. Currently, there is no digitised collection of such objects to assist specialists in further developing their expertise in production techniques and forgery markers. Hence, the scientific community’s ability to study mistakes and create proactive prevention strategies is severely limited.The project’s central goal will be to digitise the most significant collection of numismatic objects identified as counterfeits which belongs to the Coin cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium. This will include on-site processing of the objects.

Example of a card in the Counterfeits Info Cards Collection: https://accs-network.com

A further goal of the project will be to develop a “standardised identification expertise card” that can be internationally applied. A severe issue is the absence of an internationally standardised expertise procedure for counterfeit identification. Activities are being conducted to define the terminology, including creating the Nomisma.org Counterfeits Working Group to deal with the difficulties of the terminology and ontology in the area. The simultaneous development of the “expertise card” within the frames of the current proposal will be a sound basis for collaboration and coordination of the two processes directly influencing the Digital Numismatics environment.

ACCSN works closely with the DARIAH.EU Digital Numismatics Working Group.

For more information visit the ACCSN website.


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