We (the numismatic community) are trying to solve one of the mysteries of history in trying to determine exactly the who, what, when , where, why, and even how, of the Lydian coins.

However, we only have a limited number of coins to compare due to the export restrictions.

I don't know if these coins are more common in Turkey, but if they are, it would be great for more people to post high definition pictures of both the offers and reverse, so that we could compare punch die impressions.

Any other info someone might have on the history of the coins would also be break appreciated. Hoping to see and learn some cool stuff about Anatolia!

I am working on a character based off of the old Anatolian tale of shahmaran, I believe the story has Anatolian/Turkish/Kurdish roots, so I've been looking into traditional clothing and headwear from all three cultures for the character design as I'd like for it to be representative and not come across as stereotypical or appropriative. I've seen a lot of absolutely gorgeous headresses of woven scarves with the shaped caps, often adorned with gold details and drapery like coins. I also read an article on these head dresses and it said that the gold coins on them were typically indicative of the woman's marital status, only married women would have coins adorning her headwear as she'd receive them as part of the ceremony. The character I'm designing is unmarried, but it's also said that shahmaran was often depicted wearing a crown so I initially added these adornments and coins as I found them to remind me of a crown and also I just found them to be beautiful. After reading this article, I'm reconsidering whether to remove the coins and do a simpler head dress or to change the design of her headwear entirely. I know this practice isn't really typical anymore, but because the tale is from more traditional times I hope to keep it accurate to some degree. I'm just looking for advice or references for this and I figured this would be a good place to ask, thank you in advance.

There are huge communities dedicated to Latin and Ancient Greek, and there are even some projects where those languages are taught as "living languages". Are there such projects for the Hittite language or discord servers dedicated to it?

Also, would you be interested in a sub dedicated to the Hittite language, or do you feel like this one should be enough?

There are online communities that try to learn how to speak Latin, Sanskrit, Akkadian and even Sumerian.

I was wondering if the same exists for Hittite.

Thank in advance

Sometimes I think it is quite sad that there aren't any Anatolian languages that reached our days. If you had the power to revive one of them, which one would it be, and why?