How does the Celtic Coin Index Online relate to the original computerization project funded by the Leverhulme Trust?
Hardly at all. According to the Oxford site, the Leverhulme Trust funding ended in 1998, a year before Hooker & Perron offered to help the Celtic Coin Index move forward onto the WWW. Initial work was begun on the prototype, and funding applied for, in late 1999 and early 2000; when the funding was not forthcoming, Hooker & Perron agreed to put up a prototype, consisting of 320 coins of Epaticcus, to help Oxford obtain funding for the online project: the prototype went up at the end of January, 2001. After this, we have continued into the full project, adding coins catalogued in 1961, working on deferment in anticipation of future funding. The Celtic Coin Index Online project has, of course, used the existing digital data and images rather than work with hard copy. The raw data was entered from the original index cards in digital form during the initial 1992 computerization pilot program funded by Oxford, and during the following five years of the Leverhulme Trust grants, the last two
