Digital casts and 3D models: new ways of looking at Roman Emperors on coins

Lire ce billet en français : Moulages numériques et modèles 3D : de nouvelles façons de visualiser les empereurs romains sur les monnaies The peculiar nature of coins as small, portable and serially produced metal objects has always presented unique challenges to scholars and museum curators, who face the task of cataloguing and studying sheer numbers of collection entries as well as of old and new finds, while striving to make them accessible to as many people as possible. Coins are also am...