View all coins from this department. (with images)
The Medieval Department, comprising some 50,000 objects, contains the coinage of Latin Europe from the fall of the Roman Empiredown to the end of hammer-struck coinage during the course of the 17th century.
How to find an object in the ANS database.
If you know the ANS’ unique accession number for the object click the ‘Search’ button in the toolbar above. On the new page thatopens, select ‘RecordId’ on the drop-down menu and enter the accession in the following format: YYYY.nnn.nnn. The '*' wild cardcard is acceptable to gather a group of items, e.g., 1944.100.*
To conduct a free text search click the ‘Search’ button in the toolbar above. On the new page that opens, select ‘Keyword’ on thedrop-down menu and enter the text for which you wish to search.
To the right of these instructions is a list of facets by which the collection may be searched or browsed. Click on a facet and alist of all values held in the database will appear as a scroll-down list. Select the term for which you wish to search andcheck the box next to it. You may choose multiple terms within any facet. For example, if you want to browse the coins of twodifferent mints, find their names in the ‘Mint’ facet and check the boxes next to both.
Then click the ‘Search the Department’ button beneath the facet list.
You may build a complex search by choosing search terms under different facets. When you have finished selecting the terms underone facet, open the other facet(s) by which you want to search and select the relevant terms there too. For example if w at tofind coins struck at a mint in the 17th century, open the ‘Mint’ facet and check the appropriate mint, then open the ‘Century’facet and check ‘17th century’.
Then click the ‘Search the Department’ button beneath the facet list.
If you want to restrict your search to objects with images available in the database, check the ‘Has images’ box beneath thefacets list before clicking the ‘Search’ button.
