THE “PRESVEIS” PROJECT: One Currency for Europe
COMMON COINAGE
FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MODERN AGE
A Project sponsored by
the EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Directorate General X
(RAPHAEL PROGRAMME
1996-1998)
& by
the HELLENIC MINISTRY OF CULTURE
PARTNERS
Numismatic Museum, Athens (GREECE)
British Museum - Department of Coins & Medals, London (UK)
Technical support & development of web site content
Nootropia Multimedia Ltd, Athens (GREECE)
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC TEAM
NUMISMATIC MUSEUM, ATHENS (GREECE) [Project leader]
BRITISH MUSEUM - DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS, LONDON (UK)
AUTHORS
Ioannis Touratsoglou
Head supervisor of the “PRESVEIS” Project
Director of the Numismatic Museum, Athens (GREECE)
PhD in Ancient History, Numismatist - Archaeologist
Author of the text of the Project’s Introduction
Co-author of the texts of the following Choroi:
The coinage of Alexander the Great
Imperial coinages in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Co-author of the entries of the Reference
& Glossary Links
General editorship of the web site’s
content
Ute Wartenberg
Supervisor of the “PRESVEIS” Project for the British Museum
formerly Curator in the British Museum - Department of Coins & Medals,
London (UK)
PhD in Papyrology, Historian - Numismatist
Executive Director of the American Numismatic Society, New York (USA)
Co-author of the text of the following Choros:
Money before Coinage and the invention of
Coinage
Co-author of the entries of the Reference
& Glossary Links
Vasso Penna
Supervisor of the “PRESVEIS” Project for the Numismatic Museum,
Athens
formerly Deputy Director in the Numismatic Museum, Athens (GREECE)
PhD in Numismatics, Numismatist - Archaeologist
Co-author of the text of the following Choros:
The coinage of the Byzantine Empire
Kenneth Sheedy
Curator in the British Museum - Department of Coins & Medals, London
(UK)
PhD in Numismatics, Numismatist
Author of the texts of the following Choroi:
Common Coinages from Antiquity to the Modern
Age: An introduction
The coinage of Aegina
Coinage and Colony in Antiquity: The coinage of Corinth
The coinage of Athens
The impact of Athens’ coinage in the East
The coinage of Philip II
The impact of Philip II’s coinage in the N Balkans
Modern International Money
Author of the text: A Single European Currency: the Euro
Co-author of the text of the following Choros:
Money before Coinage and the invention of Coinage
Author of the coins’ captions in the
Choroi edited by the British Museum
Selection of bibliography for the Choroi
edited by the British Museum
Yannis Stoyas
Assistant Curator in the Numismatic Museum, Athens (GREECE)
BA in Archaeology, Archaeologist - Numismatist
Author of the text of the Project’s
Prelude
Author of the texts of the following Choroi:
International coinages in Antiquity
The impact of Alexander the Great’s coinage in the E and N Balkans
The impact of Alexander the Great’s coinage in E Arabia
Federations and alliances in Antiquity
The coinage of the Achaean League
Ancient coinages in an international financial system
Hellenic coinages under Roman control
The impact of Roman-controlled Hellenic coinages in the Balkans
The internationalization of the Roman Republican denarii
The coinage of the Roman Tetrarchy
The impact of the Byzantine coinage in the West
The impact of the Byzantine coinage in the North
The impact of the Byzantine coinage in the East
Co-author of the texts of the following
Choroi:
The coinage of Alexander the Great
Imperial coinages in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
The coinage of the Byzantine Empire
Author of the coins’ captions in the
Choroi
edited by the Numismatic Museum, Athens,
as well as of all the photos’ captions
Author of the texts of the following Links:
Ancient Hellenic world - Historical diagram
Roman world - Historical diagram
Byzantium - Historical diagram
Materials for coining, techniques and coin
production
(with the assistance of Constantina Vlachou,
Conservator in the Numismatic Museum, Athens)
Coin Names
Monetary systems - Weight standards and
denominations
Society & Economy
Selection of bibliography for the Choroi
edited by the Numismatic Museum, Athens
TECHNICAL TEAM
Tasos Bellas
Design and Programming
Database development
HTML page design
Map design
Webmaster
Image processing
Konstantin Tsimas
Technical support
Supplies and Finance support
Line & contracts support
Giorgos Moundoufaris
Image Processing
HTML Page design
Hyperlinks control
Haris Tzannis
Coin scanning
Image processing
Technical support
©1999
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Numismatic Museum, Athens, GREECE
The British Museum, London, UK