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The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) will bring leading scholars together at a conference hosted by the American Academy in Rome from April 9-11, 2025. At Coins, Counting, and Community. Exploring Deep Data from the Roman Republican Die Project, a group of international historians, archaeologists, and numismatists will present original research on specific Roman Republican issues utilizing the data provided by RRDP.

RRDP relies on the foundational research of Richard Schaefer, who has compiled a significant archive of over 300,000 images of Roman republican coins he identified by die. While Schaefer’s materials are now publicly available through ARCHER, the American Numismatic Society’s archival database, RRDP aims to make his work accessible to researchers through a searchable, linked open data die database (RRDP) and specimen database (SITNAM), which are in turn linked to Coins of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO). The integrated database provides an essential tool for future research, including understanding the connection between military and domestic projects and monetary production, and evaluating the accuracy of ancient sources on these subjects. The project will also facilitate further research on the scale of Roman coin production in comparison to other contemporary coinages, especially in the Greek East, and the reliability (or not) of Michael Crawford’s production estimates based on hoard counts in his well-known and standard catalog, Roman Republican Coinage (Cambridge, 1974).

The conference at the American Academy in Rome expands the scope of the project, which has in previous phases focused on control-marked coinage and issues from the period 95–75 BCE and showcases potential methods of using RRDP for other scholarly research.

RRDP is grateful for the funding of The Arete Foundation to support the conference.

Speakers

Seth Bernard, University of Toronto (2011 Fellow)
Andrew Burnett, British Museum
Kevin Butcher, University of Warwick
Alberto Campana, Independent Researcher
Lucia F. Carbone, American Numismatic Society
Pierluigi Debernardi, Polytechnic University of Turin
François de Callataÿ, Royal Library of Belgium – Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes –Université libre de Bruxelles
Claudia Devoto, University of Rome “Sapienza”
Wilhelm Hollstein, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – Technische Universität Dresden
Fleur Kemmers, University of Frankfurt
Roberto Lippi, Independent Researcher
Andrew McCabe, Independent Researcher
Elizabeth McLeod Heintges, Columbia University
Guillaume de Méritens de Villeneuve, University of Namur
Charles Parisot–Sillon, University of Orleans – IRAMAT-Centre Ernest-Babelon
Annalisa Polosa, University of Rome “Sapienza”
Matthew Ponting, University of Liverpool
Mariangela Puglisi, University of Messina
Clare Rowan, University of Warwick
Alice Sharpless, American Numismatic Society 
Marleen Termeer, Radboud University
Bernhard Woytek, Austrian Academy of Science –University of Vienna
Liv M. Yarrow, Brooklyn College, City University of New York