Nikola Moushmov's (1896 -1942) Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula and the Coins of the Bulgarian Monarchs, was published in 1912, originally in "Old Bulgarian" (that is, using archaic word forms that would confound automated translation software!) plus Latin translations of headings. It's particularly comprehensive for Roman Provincial coins of Moesia and Thrace.
The book is arranged alphabetically by city and chronologically by ruler within that city, then alphabetical by reverse type, e.g. Aesclepios before Apollo, before Artemis, before Athena. [Note that the orginal Cyrillic alphabetical order is different in some cases from the Latin alphabetical order. The English translation has had the cities rearranged into Latin alphabetical order, but the reverse types have not.]
There are 500 pages of listings plus 68 plates (on 6" x 8.5" pages), and a total of 7460 numbered types. For comparison, in Moushmov's listings for Geta from Nikopolis, there are 43 types; Copenhagen lists only one.
The way it is comprehensive in this one book is by being less than fully definitive on each listed type, and by employing a clever trick with the plates. He lists the various incriptions possible for a particular ruler at the beginning of that section (e.g. Macrinus and Diadumenian of Markianopolis), then lists the types (e.g "Concordia seated with patera & cornucopaie") for them, but without associating particular insciptions with that entry. Therefore, it is possible that there are a number of different possible inscriptions , bust types, and module for a given Moushmov number. For example there may be different legates who issused that Concordia type: there could possibly be an VP PONTIANOV as well as an VP AGRIPPA legate's inscription which are both covered by one Moushmov number..
Moushmov's photographic plates provide examples of most reverse types, e.g. an illustration of what a generic "Concordia seated left with patera and cornucopiae" looks like. He uses, say, a coin from Markianopolis to illustrate the same type from Nikopolis, Tomis and Kallatis, which is an very clever way to save space in his plates, but might cause some confusion among beginners, so hopefully they will read this intro first!
- Dave Surber, March, 2003