Wednesday, April 6, 2011

MANTIS: American Numismatic Society's new collection interface

MANTIS: A Numismatic Technologies Integration Service
The ANS collections database contains information on more than 600,000 objects in the Society’s collections. These include, coins, paper money, tokens, ‘primitive’ money, medals and decorations, from all parts of the world, and all periods in which such objects have been produced. Show search instructions.
Click an image below to search a department.
Greek
Greek
Roman
Roman
Byzantine
Byzantine
Islamic
Islamic
East Asian
East Asian
South Asian
South Asian
Medieval
Medieval
Modern
Modern
United States
United States
Latin American
Latin American
Medals And Decorations
Medals And Decorations

ANS policies on the acquisition and deacquisition of numismatic items are available online

Search Instructions

The collection maybe browsed and searched as whole, by using the ‘Browse’ and ‘Search’ options on the tool bar above. Alternatively, searches and browsing may be confined to individual ANS Departments, by clicking on the relevant link below. If you know the area or period in which you are interested, we recommend using the Departmental search pages.
The Greek, Roman, and U.S. collections may be searched by scalable and clickable map, by clicking on ‘Maps’ in the tool bar above. This function is currently under development for other areas of the collection

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