How has the online Celtic Coin Index project developed to date, and what are the plans for the future?
At this point, we have completed all the coin records from 1961 to the middle of 2001 for the British issues, which is more than 28,000 records. We are now awaiting up-to-date coin record data, which will take a bit more time to process. Regarding the history of The Celtic Coin Index Online, we began this project with a prototype containing all 320 CCI records of the coins of Epaticcus, the Atrebatian king, which was up in January of 2001. Unlike the Epaticcus prototype, which was organized by CCI number, we organized the new structure by coin region, tribe, and also by Van Arsdell Number. We continued with the plan of adding complete records for each year, working tribe by tribe. We began with the huge first year of the Index, 1961, which alone contains more than 1,600 records, starting with the Atrebates, and continued in this manner until the following tribes were up for 1961: the Atrebates, Cantii, Trinovantes/Catuvellauni, the Durotriges, and some unknown types, so at that point,
