Guidelines for submitting coins to the WildWinds Database
- Make sure you have the right to submit the picture and information. This may be a coin of your own, or you have obtained permission to re-use the image and information.
- Image:
- Please make the image if possible on a plain background (if possible not bright red, wood, shocking pink, lime green or checkered tablecloths...)
- Both sides of the coin in a single image, obverse (on the left) and reverse (on the right) side by side, Format: jpg, max. width 600 pixels.
- Save the image as a .jpg with a name which includes e.g. the emperor's name and RIC (or other reference) number for Roman coins (e.g. constans_trier_ric_1234.jpg) or the names of the region and city and reference for Greek coins (e.g. thrace_dium_moushmov_1234.jpg)
- Information:
- If possible please include all the legends, coin size in mm, and any reference you may have.
- Include your name. If you have a coin website, please feel free to include the URL to your website.
- Save this information as a plain text file (.txt) using the same basic name as the coin image file above (e.g. constans_trier_ric_1234.txt). Include interesting facts, history, how and where and for how much the coin was obtained, etc.
- Make an additional one line description of the coin including legends and save this as a plain text file as above but with the suffix .dat - this is the information which appears on the list page. (e.g. constans_trier_ric_1234.dat)
- Submitting it:
- Zip the three files if you have winzip or winrar. Email the attachment(s) to our email address.
- Please allow us enough time to sort, index, correct, format, upload etc. your files.
Thankyou !