For the fourth time, FLAME sponsored a panel covering its current work at Kalamazoo. FLAME’s director Lee Mordechai (SESYNC and Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presented on “Economy and Environment in Late Antiquity: Coin Circulation and Destructive Disasters”; Merle Eisenberg (Princeton … Continued
We are glad to announce that FLAME has imported Peter Philps’ dataset of Early Islamic coins, which included c. 150 coin finds and c. 3,000 coins, significantly improving the project’s coverage in the Near East. A brief description of the … Continued
FLAME’s director Lee Mordechai has recently presented the project at Hofstra’s University’s Eleventh annual Seminar in Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics, in a presentation entitled “The FLAME Project: Late Antique Coin Circulation in Western Eurasia”, speaking about the second … Continued
We are glad to announce that FLAME has imported 112,035 coins in 689 coin finds (all hoards) from the CHRE, another open access digital numismatics project. Although the data required some tweaking to conform to FLAME’s internal structure, the relative … Continued
FLAME’s director Lee Mordechai presented FLAME at the 1,319th consecutive meeting of the New York Numismatic Club. The presentation, entitled “The FLAME Project: Ancient Coins, New Technology” covered the project’s context, past development, and current status, emphasizing how FLAME is … Continued