Search Instructions

Accession Number

If you know the ANS’ unique accession number for the object select ‘Accession number’ on the drop-down menu above and enter the accession number in the following format: YYYY.nnn.nnn.

Free Text Searching

To conduct a free text search select ‘Keyword’ on the drop-down menu above and enter the text for which you wish to search.

Other Searches

The drop down menu above also allows basic searches on other categories of information (list from drop down here). Searches across multiple categories may be carried out by clicking ‘add’ to the right of the search field. However, if you wish to search for multiple terms or under multiple categories of information, we strongly recommend using the faceted search facility for the whole collection or for individual Departments. To conduct a faceted search across the whole collection, click ‘Browse’ on the tool bar above. To conduct a faceted search by Department click ‘Collections Home’ on the tool bar above

The search allows wildcard searches with the * and ? characters and exact string matches by surrounding phrases by double quotes (like Google).

Example: A search for 1944.* will yield all coins accessioned in 1944. See the Lucene query syntax documenation for more information.