New publication on the application of AI for analysing a Celtic coin hoard

Read how we supported Philip de Jersey in his “lifetime’s” work analysing the massive Le Câtillon II hoard!

Deligio. Ch., / Tolle, K. / Wigg-Wolf, D., Supporting the analysis of a large coin hoard with AI-based methods. In: CAA2023 Conference Proceedings (PCI Archaeology 2024) <doi: 10.5281/zenodo.11187474>.

In the project “Classifications and Representations for Networks: From types and characteristics to linked open data for Celtic coinages” (ClaReNet) we had access to image data for one of the largest Celtic coin hoards ever found: Le Câtillon II with nearly 70,000 coins. Our aim was not to develop new processes, but rather to demonstrate how existing tools can be used to support the numismatic task of processing and analysing large complexes of coins, thus validating the enormous potential of IT-based methods. The main steps involved are the pre-sorting of coins by size (denomination), the attribution of individual coins to classes or types, and finally the identification of which coins were struck by individual dies.