Reader subscriptions cover roughly sixty-five percent of the atlas's annual costs. The remainder is the Cairo Numismatic Society grant and the senior editors' occasional teaching contracts; the funding structure is described in detail on the about page. The subscription year is a rolling twelve months from the day of payment clearance.
€14/year
For the curious non-specialist or the student who wants to follow the monthly catalogue additions.
€56/year
For the academic researcher, the seminar instructor and the serious collector who uses the atlas as a working reference.
€180/year
For university libraries, museum coin sections, antiquities authority departments and embassy cultural offices.
Once a subscription is placed through the contact form, Salma Mansour confirms within two working days, with the subscription identifier, the bank-transfer instructions (account at Banque du Caire, Ismailia branch) or PayPal option, and the welcome email. Payment is taken in a single annual transfer; we do not retain payment instruments and do not auto-renew. The subscription becomes active the day the payment clears; from that point the monthly bulletin arrives on the first Sunday of every month. Three weeks before the end of the subscription year, Salma sends a courtesy reminder. The reader chooses whether to renew. If the reader does not renew, the access closes on the anniversary date and no further emails are sent — there is no marketing follow-up, no win-back campaign, no third-party reuse of the address.
The specimen-ID request is a separate paid service, not included in any subscription tier. The standard fee is two hundred and forty euros for a single specimen (Researcher tier pays one hundred and ninety-two; Institutional tier pays one hundred and forty-four). Pairs and groups are quoted at the sliding scale described on the services page. The fee is paid before the editorial work begins; refunds are issued only if the atlas declines the request after receiving the specimen, which has happened seven times since 2014 (typically when the specimen turned out to be modern manufacture clearly visible on initial photographic examination). The fee covers two-editor sign-off, photographic plate, attribution note in writing, and entry into the supplementary corpus.
The Reader tier has stood at €14 since January 2021 (€10 before that, raised once in twelve years). The Researcher tier has been €56 since launch in 2017. The Institutional tier was added in 2019 at €180 and has not changed. We do not raise prices for existing subscribers within their paid year; any future increase applies only to new subscriptions and renewals from the announcement date. We do not offer time-limited promotional discounts, multi-year prepayment incentives or referral bonuses; the tier structure is the tier structure.
No. The public catalogue — the inventory entries with photographs, reference attributions, weights, measurements and provenance lines — is freely accessible without a subscription. The subscription pays for the monthly bulletin, the quarterly corrections register, the XML export and the editorial support service. The atlas's editorial position is that the scholarly content must remain open; the operational support is what the subscription covers.
Yes. PhD students and Masters students at any university may subscribe at the Reader tier for €7 (half price) on production of a current student identifier number. Mark "student" on the contact form; we do not require a document upload, just the identifier. Approximately a hundred and fifty students subscribe at the half-price rate at any one time.
Because monthly billing requires retention of payment instruments, and we have deliberately structured the cooperative not to retain them. Annual transfer keeps the administration light and keeps the reader's payment data with the reader's bank, not with us. Salma processes annual transfers manually; the workload is sustainable at the current subscriber level.
Above twelve named readers we issue a custom licence at a custom price; write to the desk with the proposed reader count and we will quote within five working days. Two universities and one museum currently hold extended licences; the largest covers thirty-two named readers at an academic library.
The bulletin is digital only. The catalogue is digital only. The methodology document and the corrections register are both downloadable PDF. The optional Institutional-tier printed annual digest is the only printed output; it consolidates the year's bulletins, the corrections register and the annual transparency note into a single bound volume.
Yes. At the contact form mark topic "gift subscription" with the recipient's name, postal or email address, and the date the welcome should go out. We hold the gift until the date and send the welcome under your name unless you ask us not to.
Write to Salma and she will refund the un-elapsed months pro rata to the nearest whole month, by reverse transfer or PayPal at your preference, within ten working days. Access to the bulletins and the corrections register ends on the cancellation date.
The atlas is a digital publication supplied from Egypt. We do not charge EU VAT at point of sale; we are not registered for EU VAT and do not exceed the threshold for digital-services supply. Egyptian VAT is included in the displayed price. Readers in jurisdictions that levy a local import tax on digital subscriptions are responsible for that local tax; we have not had to address this in twelve years of operation.
Reader subscriptions sixty-five percent, Cairo Numismatic Society grant twenty-eight percent, university teaching contracts seven percent. The full annual breakdown by amount and percentage is published in the December issue's transparency note and is available to any subscriber or journalist on request.
Subscription questions to the office at the contact form; mark the relevant topic. Specimen-ID and scholarly questions also via the same form with a different topic mark.