Vienna mint.
1152/1155-1190. Bracteate.
Thick Double thaler 1567.
Hadrian, the Traveling Emperor– Our CoinsWeekly NYINC Special Issue
by Ursula Kampmann
Few emperors seem as likeable as Hadrian, an emperor from the provinces for the provinces, who was very different from all his predecessors. Learn more about Hadrian and his coinage in our new CoinsWeekly Special Issue for NYINC 2025. Available as a free download now!
Editorial
Once again, a new year full of exciting events and numismatic discoveries begins. Once again, life will go on and bring about change. That doesn’t mean that everything will get worse – it just means that things will be different at the end of the year than they are today. Just look at artificial intelligence – it caused such a stir last year! There was so much fear in the creative sector of being replaced by machines.
If anything, we got more business during that time. Suddenly, coin dealers realized how important it was for them to support well-researched, in-depth content. Anyone who has ever read an AI-generated text knows that it’s not a satisfying experience. At least if you have certain standards.
Because so far, only human intelligence has been able to interpret and evaluate facts to create a coherent picture. Let’s be honest! Facts and figures about a Roman emperor like Hadrian are not interesting in themselves. What makes them interesting is when they are used to illustrate what kind of person Hadrian was. And that’s what we try to do in this issue’s main article.
Another CoinsWeekly project that we launched to counter the AI movement is our Numismatic Directory. It’s a piece of cake to collect numismatic locations using AI. But it takes humans to evaluate them and give users a hint as to what might be of interest to them. That’s why we created the Numismatic Directory, which will eventually open up all numismatic doors for collectors around the world – whenever possible, with an insightful commentary.
As usual with CoinsWeekly, this project is financed by dealers, whose advertising makes sure that our services are available to you free of charge. And if you happen to be a dealer interested in supporting our work for the numismatic community, please talk to Andrea Pancheri, who will be representing CoinsWeekly at the New York International for the first time this year. By the way, she’s an excellent numismatist. I’m sure you will enjoy talking to her!
