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The peculiar nature of coins as small, portable and serially produced metal objects has always presented unique challenges to scholars and museum curators, who face the task of cataloguing and studying sheer numbers of collection entries as well as of old and new finds, while striving to make them accessible to as many people as possible. Coins are also among the most underappreciated classes of archaeological materials in museum galleries due to the difficulties of combining adequate lighting and display solutions, so another major task is to give visibility to very small, either too dark or too shiny objects, and to make them appealing to the general public.

A huge help to tackle all these challenges has come, especially in the last fifteen years, from digital technology, which has found many applications to the study of the ancient world, including coinage, allowing scholars to speed up and automatise all the most common activities in the numismatic practise.
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