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The kingdom of the Ostrogoths in Italy, established from 493 AD by King Theodoric, was one of the successful Germanic states founded on the territory of the former Western Roman Empire. The coins issued after the foundation of the kingdom of the Ostrogoths henceforth depicted the ruling kings and no longer the Roman emperor. They represent an important economic, pictorial and ideological testimony to a society that sought to appeal equally to Gothic, Italic and urban Roman populations as well as to the respective Gothic and Roman elites.

OCOI allows cross-collection research and various types of analyses. In addition to partner institutions of public coin collections in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (ikmk.net), the British Museum in London and the American Numismatic Society in New York, which also operates and maintains the servers, are also part of the project initiated by the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin. Other collections will be able to import their holdings via an Api interface in future. This will also enable smaller and regional collections to present their holdings to an international audience at a low threshold.

The website allows the use of various search filters, map and object views, e.g. by issuing authority, pictorial motifs, inscriptions, dating, metal, nominal, mint or place of discovery. An interface also enables read access to the stored object data. The digital form chosen here ensures that OCOI can now be used to view a much larger stock of material than previously available in relevant printed publications permanently, easily and at any time worldwide. Each coin document in OCOI corresponds to a digital link back to the local object catalogue of the respective owning institution.

The type descriptions and concepts used are provided with open licences, the coin images of the respective international museums can be used depending on the image-producing institution - in the case of the Münzkabinett and the majority of its partners, they are in the public domain.

The creation of this online catalogue was funded by the Federal Programme of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and is courtesy of Spink Books in London and the authors of the printed corpus [Michael Andreas Metlich, The Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy & and a Die Study of Theodahad Folles by M. A. Metlich and E. A. Arslan (London 2004)].

The start page is written in German and English, the individual type descriptions are in English using standardised concepts from the numismatic standard data project nomisma.org with individual language output.

Contributors: American Numismatic Society, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (Braunschweig), Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna), Münzkabinett und Antikensammlung der Stadt Winterthur, British Museum, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Münzsammlung des Seminars für Alte Geschichte der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (Freiburg), Universität Rostock.

OCOI:https://numismatics.org/coi

Press images at:https://www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/newsroom/presse/pressebilder.html