Du plomb au pixel. Transcrire les légendes des monnaies du haut Moyen Âge

Abstract

Publishing numismatic research requires that coin inscriptions be transcribed, with more or less precision depending on the purpose of the study. 19th-century numismatists tackled the subject with some success and developed fonts which are now obsolete given the advances of typesetting. Interest in this field of research has only recently re-emerged, stimulated by the new possibilities offered by contemporary digital fonts ; this is particularly true for the early Middle Ages. Interpretation of the inscriptions, the identification of places and people, and even chronology could benefit from such fonts, so long as their creation rests on a detailed preliminary epigraphic study.