Monetary CHANGE in Ancient Anatolia 630-30 BC - an international conference at the Pera Museum, Istanbul 8-9 January 2026

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 has 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) which 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 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 has now  been 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) compiled by Marcus Chin, 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. 

Details of the conference programme will be made available in the Autumn.