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Will Synchrotron Studies Unlock the Mystery of the Invention of Coinage?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2018

Lisa L. Van Loon ,
Andrew J. Nelson  and
Neil R. Banerjee
Lisa L. Van Loon
Affiliation:
Numismatic Institute of North America Inc., London, Canada. Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, London, Canada. Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Canada.
Andrew J. Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, Canada. Department of Chemistry, Western University, London, Canada.
Neil R. Banerjee*
Affiliation:
Numismatic Institute of North America Inc., London, Canada. Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, London, Canada.
*
* Corresponding author, neil.banerjee@uwo.ca

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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 24 , Supplement S2: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy (XRM2018) , August 2018 , pp. 560 - 561
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[5] Research described in this paper was performed at the Canadian Light Source (CLS), the Advanced Photon Source (APS), and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS). The CLS is supported by CFI, NSERC, the University of Saskatchewan, the Government of Saskatchewan, Western Economic Diversification Canada, the NRC, and CIHR. The APS is an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory, and is supported by the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. CHESS is supported by the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1332208. The authors thank Renfei Feng, Peter Blanchard, Ronny Sutarto, and Xiaoyu Cui (CLS), Zou Finfrock, Robert Gordon, Andrew Chuang, Sarvjit Shastri, Yang Ren, Uta Ruett (APS), and Arthur Woll, Rong Huang, and Louisa Smieska (CHESS) for their support in conducting the experiments. Coins analysed in this study were graciously provided by the American Numismatic Society, Jonathan Kagan, and Ute Wartenberg Kagan. Gold reference materials were graciously loaned by the Royal Canadian Mint..Google Scholar