| General Acronyms | ||
| NISC | Not In the Standard Catalogs | |
| cf | compare to; i.e. as the listing for that coin, but should have its own listing; for example, cf a drachm type reference for a hemidrachm of the same design. | |
| ff | and following = as this reference and those following it. | |
| v or var | variation from that in the reference; for example, a different legend, unlisted mintmark or officina, different reverse. | |
| Type Finders | Anson, Leo. Three volumes listed by reverse type (with index) to help identify Greek coins. The available books of series, sadly never completed, comprises of these volumes:
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| List of Greek numis. works | List of Greek numismatic works with links, at snible.org | |
| AMNG | Die Antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands
Volume I (Dacia and Moesia) as pdf at archive.org Volume III (Macedonia and Paeonia) as pdf at archive.org A concordance list between the plate images of Volumes I and I/II to the catalog numbers, compiled by Pete Burbules. |
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| Babelon | Ernest Babelon, Description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la République romaine , 2 volumes. Available on archive.org. |
1885-86 |
| BMC | Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, 6 volumes:
| 1923-1963 |
| BMC | Greek Coins in the British Museum, 27 volumes. British Museum. Most in downloadable pdf format at archive.org etc. | 1873-1910 |
| Boehringer | Boehringer, Coins of Syracuse. A collector has put together a list of coins with images according to Boehringer: Download from the wildwinds server | 1929 |
| Bop | Osmund Bopearachchi, Monnaies Gréco-Bactriennes et Indo-Grecques. | 1991 |
| Calciati or CNS | R. Calciati, Corpus Nummorum Siculorum (I, II, III), Milano/Mortara | 1983-7 |
| Ceka | Ceka, H., Questions de numismatique illyrienne. State University, Tirana | 1972 |
| Chaix | Chaix, Eugčne: Description de onze cents monnaies impériales grecques et coloniales latines (Descriptions of 1100 Roman Provincial and Colonial coins, in French). PDF at archive.org | |
| Clerk | MG Clerk, Catalogue of the Coins of the Achaean League PDF at archive.org | 1895 |
| Cohen | Description Historique des Monnaies frappees sous L'Empire Romain, communement appelees Medailles Imperiales - 8 volumes. Online as pdfs at archive.org and viewable at the links below:
| 1880-1888 |
| CNG Classical Numismatic Group |
For unlisted coins sold by CNG, I have used their auction and lot number as reference until an "official" reference is published or found. | various |
| Cr, Craw Crawford |
Michael Crawford, The Roman Republican Coinage, 2 volumes. | 1974 |
| CSE | Arthur Houghton, Coins of the Seleucid Empire | 1974 |
| Cunetio | E. Besley & R. Bland. The Cunetio Treasure. | 1983 |
| Göbl or Goebl | Robert Göbl, numerous works, e.g. corpus of the coinages of Valerian I, Gallienus, Saloninus, etc. . | 1989 |
| Gökyildirim Istanbul | Turan Gökyildirim, Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri - Lydia Sikkeleri Katalogu (Catalogue of Lydian Coins in Istanbul Archaeological Museum). | 2016 |
| Grose | See McClean, below | 1923 |
| Harl | Michael Harlan, Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins. | 1995 |
| Hendin | David Hendin, Guide to Biblical Coins. | 1996 |
| HN | Barclay Head, Historia Numorum | 1911 |
| Hunter | G. Macdonald, Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow, 3 volumes | 1899 |
| Imhoof | Imhoof-Blumer, Various useful books from this prolific author including Monnaies Grčcques; Kleinasiatische Münzen; Flussgötter (River gods); Griechische Münzen and others. Most available from archive.org | var. years |
| Jenkins | G.K. Jenkins, Ancient Greek Coins, Coins of Greek Sicily, Coins of Gela, Coins of Punic Sicily and others. | var. years |
| Köln (Koeln) | A. Geissen, Katalog Alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen, Köln (Cologne), 5 volumes. | 1974-1983 |
| Kurth | D. Kurth, Demos, Ancient Coins depicting Demos, available on lulu.com $15 | 2010 |
| Lindgren | Lindgren & Frank Kovacs, Ancient Bronze Coins Of Asia Minor And The Levant From The Lindgren Collection, also Lindgren II and Lindgren III. | 1985 |
| LRBC | R.A. Carson, Late Roman Bronze Coinage. | 1990 |
| May | J.M.F.May, Several books, incl. The Coinage of Demastion and the Lesser Coinages of the Illyro-Paeonian Region; Coinage of the Lycian League etc. | 1939 |
| McClean (aka Grose) | S.W. Grose, The McClean Collection of Greek Coins (3 volumes). Available as pdfs at scribd.com and other places. | 1923 |
| Megaw | M. Megaw, Diadumenian, Provincial Coinage, available on lulu.com | 2010 |
| Mesh | Y. Meshorer, Ancient Jewish Coinage, 2 volumes | 1992 |
| Milne | J. G. Milne, A Catalog of Alexandrian Coinage in the Ashmolean Museum. | 1933 |
| Mionnet | Téodore Edme Mionnet, Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines, avec leur degré de rarite et leur estimation 16 volumes (incl. 6 supplements and plates volumes). Online as pdfs at archive.org | 1830 |
| MIG | Mitchiner, Michael B. Indo-Greek And Indo-Scythian Coinage. 9 volumes. | 1975-76 |
| Moushmov | Nikola Moushmov, Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula, (in Bulgarian). The Wildwinds Moushmov Section. | 1912 |
| Mueller | L. Mueller, Die Muenzen des Thracischen Koenigs Lysimachus; Coinage of Alexander III etc. Available for all on google books. | 1858 |
| NC | Numismatic Chronicle, published annually by the Royal Numismatic Society. Links to older editions 1836-1899 and most later ones to 1940 are available from the Indian Central Archaeological Library . Enter "Numismatic Chronicle" into the search field. You will see 20 pages of 5 volumes per page. Note that the list is not in chronological order !. | since 1836 |
| Normanby | R. Bland & A. Burnett (Ed.). The Normanby Hoard and other Roman Coin Hoards. | 1988 |
| Pegasi | Romolo Calciati, Pegasi, 2 volumes | 1989 |
| Pozzi | Jacob Hirsch, Monnaies Grecques Antiques, Collection Prof. S. Pozzi | 1920 (reprinted 1966) |
| Price | M.J.Price, The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philipp Arridaeus. 2 volumes | 1991 |
| Ravel | Oscar Ravel, Les "Poulains" de Corinthe, 2 volumes | 1936 |
| Rec.Gen. | Waddington, Babelon & Reinach, Recueil General des Monnaies Greques d'Asie Mineure,commencé par William Henry Waddington, Continué et Completé par Ernest Babelon et Theodore Reinach. Online at Virginia University also at the French National Digital Library Also, Volume 1, part 1 (Pontus and Paphlagonia) or Different Scans on archive.org. Volume 1, part 2 (Bithynia: to Juliopolis) on archive.org For Volume 1, part 3 (Nicaea and Nicomedia), see scribd.com or T. Verspag's page mentioned above. Volume 1, part 4 (Prusa, Prusias, Tius) on archive.org | 1872 |
| RIC | Mattingly, Harold, Sydenham, et al, The Roman Imperial Coinage, 10 Volumes. Most of these are now available online as pdfs.
| (1984-2007) |
| RPC | Roman Provincial Coinage
| 1992- |
| RSC or Seaby |
H.A. Seaby, Roman Silver Coinage, 5 Volumes.
| 1978-1987 |
| Rouvier | Rouvier, J. Numismatique des Villes de Phénicie (Numismatics of Phoenician Cities) originally published in Journal International d'Archéologie Numismatique Vol. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (1899-1903) and partially in Revue Numismatique. 4e sér. 2 (1898) and Revue Biblique Internationale 8 (1899). Please see T. Verspag's page (link above) for the appropriate links. | 2008 |
| Rutter or HN Italy | Rutter, N.K., Historia Numorum Italy | British Museum Press, reprinted 2001 |
| Ruzicka | Leon Ruzicka, The Coinage of Serdica (English translation) PDF at Helvetica's pdf page.. This page is password-protected to prevent Chinese theft. Please contact Dane for access information. Dane reserves the right to refuse access and for security reasons does not send the information to yahoo, hotmail, aol or bt-internet addresses..
The Coinage of Pautalia (in German) | 2008 |
| Sear or RCV |
David R. Sear, Roman Coins and Their Values.
| 2000-2015 |
| SB | David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins & Their Values. | <1987> |
| SG | David R. Sear, Greek Coins & Their Values, 2 Volumes: Vol 1: Europe; Vol 2: Asia and Afria | 1978-1979 |
| SGI | David R. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins & Their Values. | 1982 |
| SNG ANS | Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum American Numismatic Society | |
| SNG BN | Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Cabinet des Médailles, Banque Nationale de Paris. | various |
| SNG Cop | Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Danish National Museum, Copenhagen
| 1981-1982 |
| SNG Fitz | Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University | |
| SNG Hel | Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Helsinki (aka SNG Keckman) | |
| SNG Is | Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Israel, aka Spaer | |
| SNG vA | SNG von Aulock. Originally 18 volumes, reprinted in 1987 as 4 hardbound volumes. In German.
| 1987 |
| Spijkerman (Spij) | A. Spijkerman, The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia. | 1978 |
| Svoronos | J.N.Svoronos. Numerous works including Ta Nomismata tou Kratous ton Ptolemaion (Ptolemaic Coinage) - Online at www.coin.com | 1908 |
| Syd | E.A.Sydenham, The Coinage of the Roman Republic. | 1952 |
| Syd | E.A.Sydenham, The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia Note: This very useful book can still be purchased for $25 from Allen Berman Books. | 1933, repr. 1978 |
| Thompson | M. Thompson, The Mints of Lysimachus, Essays in Greek Coinage presented to Stanley Robinson, Oxford | 1968 |
| Wacks | Mel Wacks Handbook of Biblical Numismatics Online at the ANS | 2001 |
| Weber | L. Forrer, The Weber Collection of Greek Coins, 4 volumes. | 1922 |
| Whitehead | Catalogue Of Coins In The Panjab Museum Lahore Vol I. This is a great book for ID-ing Indo-Greek and Baktrian coins with all their monograms and Kharosthi scripts and letters. I don't have the Bopearachchi book so I use this. | 1914 |
| Wiczay | Musei Hedervarii numos antiquos graecos et latinos descripsit (in Latin) (in Latin). This is the book referred to as Mus. Hed. in Mionnet, for example. | 1814 |
| Wruck | W. Wruck, Die Syrische Provinzialpragung von Augustus bis Traian | 1931 |
| VanMeter, VM | David VanMeter, A Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins. But see the Corrections | 1991 |
| Varbanov | Ivan Varbanov, Bulgarian version (2002) and English version, 3 volumes Greek Imperial Coins | 2005 |
| Vecchi | Vecchi, ItaloItalian Cast Coinage | 2014 |
| Vlasto | Ravel, Oscar E, Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Tarentine Coins formed by M. P. Vlasto. | 1977 |
| Ziegler | Ruprecht Ziegler, Münzen Kilikiens aus kleinen deutschen Sammlungen and other works. | 1989 |
| Others | There are a large number of other very useful catalogs and reference works by numerous authors, e.g. Dalaison, Hoover, Butcher, Armstrong etc. In addition, for unpublished types, I often use the sellers sale and lot number | 1989 |
| Bibliography | A large bibliography at ancientcoinage.com | |
| Corrections | Corrigenda for some standard numismatic references | |
| E-Sylum | Coinbooks.org and subscribe to their E-Sylum Newsletter | |
| ANS | In March 2015 the ANS came to an agreement with Hathitrust to upload the ANS journals and most NNM and NS articles on condition that these must be made freely available to everyone. These include articles written by some of the greatest numismatists from the past 70 years - Noe, Metcalf, Thompson (including the 2 volumes of "New Style Tetradrachms"), Bellinger, Newell, Castelin etc.
List of the 540 items. An xls list of numbers, titles and links to the "Numismatic Notes and Monographs" and "Numismatic Studies".. IMPORTANT: If your version of Excel shows the links as direct links, DO NOT USE THE LINK BY SIMPLY CLICKING ON IT as this can cause an error if it has split into two lines in Excel. Mark the complete link (without words such as "bundled" etc), press CTRL C (copy to memory), open your browser and press CTRL V (insert from memory) into the address line. | |
| Various | A member of the Forum Ancient Coins found a website with numerous useful numismatic books including several listed above (RIC, BMC Greek etc) on this page. Use the search terms Coins or Coinage, for example. | |
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