Money in the Montferrat from Medieval to Modern times
The mint of Maccagno Inferiore and its coins
Eligivs
Bibliography of the Italian numismatics
Eligivs is a database created in 2002 useful to manage the different information related to all the mint workers. It is the sole prosopography specifically dedicated to this topic.
The project for this database was developed during the research about the mint of Maccagno Inferiore, in order to classify the names of the mint masters who worked there and follow their presence in other mints. It was then widened to all the mints, allowing the management of the information concerning the world-wide mint workers from the Ancient Times till nowadays.
Through user friendly interfaces it is easy to insert the private data of each character, the different job relationships in the different mints and the signs they used to mark the coins.
With the database it is possible to make complex searches or to analyze the movements of the workers from one mint to another. The results of the searches can be easily exported into printable reports.
The 1.1 version of the database has been introduced to the public during the congress Monete in rete (Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, May 22nd 2003). The software has been now developed to handle a wider amount of data. The present 1.5.1 version has been stil improved with new search criteria and a much more efficient storing system for the pictures of mint marks.
The database now contains 4,226 names, 7,565 relations between workers and mints and 959 mint marks (last update: June 3rd 2008).
The database is available on line in the Eligivs on line section of this web site.
Eligivs
1.5 - the database (884 kB)