MONTHLY LECTURE

The study of the coin finds from Olympia: from the 1960s into the digital age

Dr. Simone Killen, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich

The lecture dealt with the thousands of ancient coins found during the excavations in the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. It traced an arc from the beginnings of coin-find research since the 1960s under Peter Robert Franke to current projects aiming at a digital publication of these coin finds.