CHANGE: the development of the monetary economy of ancient Anatolia circa 630 - 30 BC
Electrum stater bearing the legend ‘I am the Seal of Phanes’, perhaps produced in Ephesus in the mid 7th century BC. BNK, G.950. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum
CHANGE is an interdisciplinary project to research the monetary history of ancient Anatolia from the beginning of coinage in the 7th century to the absorption of the region by Rome circa 30 BC. In partnership with the British Museum and the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, researchers based at the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents will gather the epigraphic and numismatic evidence for the monetary history of Anatolia with a view to creating new research tools and a new history of monetary behaviour of the region where coinage was born.
The CHANGE project will gather, for the first time, the evidence for the development of the monetary economy of ancient Anatolia and, using new digital technology, it will organize this evidence to answer major questions concerning the economic history of this region over the longue durée. A new monetary history of Asia Minor will result, encompassing such broad themes as the origins of coinage, the economies of cities, dynasts and empires and the emergence of fiduciarity.
All three datasets are now available for researchers to use. You can find out more about them here.
Futher Details:
Website: https://change.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Project Leader: Professor Andrew Meadows
Project Partners:
Dr Amelia Dowler, The British Museum
Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Research Associates:
Stefanie Baars MA, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für Archäologie
CHANGE (Grant Agreement no 865680) has received frunding from the ERC Horizon 2020 Programme
