Greek Coin Sites

 

Ancient Coins of The Balkan Peninsula

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.]

Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus

The ancient Greek city of Miletus in Asia Minor, on what is now the west coast of Turkey, has been called the birthplace of the modern world. Home of Thales, the “father of philosophy,” and his followers Anaximander and Anaximenes, Miletus was the intellectual and commercial center of the Greek world in the century before Athens rose to prominence. These pages discuss the origins and early history of coinage and describe a small collection of ancient Greek coins from Miletus and nearby areas.

The Historia Numorum

Ed Snible's on-line version of Barclay Head's "Historia Numorum", one of the greatest works on ancient Greek and Roman Provincial coins, has entered the public domain. As Ed says, "In a very real sense you now own the book. Until now you've had no way to read it unless you were lucky enough to own a copy or your local library kept it." Still incomplete but more is being added.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum

The British volumes of this series converted into an online database by the Fitzwilliam Museum.

 

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