Roman Coin Sites

 

Ancient Greek and Roman Coins

Doug Smith's Educational Site on Roman Coins, Greek Coins and other Ancient Coins.

Ancient Imitations of Roman Coins

Warren Esty's site about ancient forgeries and copies. As he says, "An educational site about genuinely ancient coins that were imitations or counterfeits in their day................".

Coins of Roman Egypt

Michael J. Covili's site of Alexandrian coinage under the Romans.

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The complete text of Gibbon's great work.  It was originally published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. Covering approximately 1200 years from 200 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, it is structured in two distinct parts of about equal length. The first 300 years are detailed and then the last nearly 1,000 years are compressed in the second part. 

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Bill Thayer's "roman only" version of William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, an encyclopedic work containing a lot of good basic information (and references to primary sources), that was first published in 1875.

Eight Hundred Years of Roman Coinage

An article by David R Sear included in the Chicago Coin Club's publication, Perspectives in Numismatics.

Forum Romanum

David Camden's excellent index of all Latin texts and translations that are available online.

Lacus Curtius

Bill Thayer's major site on Roman antiquity, including a photogazetteer of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, the complete Latin texts of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Quintus Curtius' Histories of Alexander the Great, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, and Censorinus' de Die Natali; Vitruvius, Frontinus, Velleius Paterculus, Suetonius, Celsus' de Medicina, and most of Claudian in both Latin and English; complete English translations of Polybius, Cassius Dio, Appian's Civil Wars and Quintilian; Rodolfo Lanciani's book Pagan and Christian Rome, Christian Hülsen's book on the Roman Forum, Bury's 2-vol. History of the Later Roman Empire, 3 books on Roman Britain, George Dennis's Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, large chunks of Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, a fair amount of Ptolemy's Geography, various maps of the Roman Empire, and quite a bit more.

Later Roman Coinage

A Roman Coinage site which concentrates on the third century AD.

Museum of Countermarks on Roman Coins

The title says it all. An excellent specialist website.

Not in RIC

Making a web page with addenda and corrigenda to all RIC volumes seems to be an impracticable task but Lech Stępniewski is giving it a go. Right now only volumes V, VI and VII are accessible - the other volumes will be successively added in future.

Republican Imitation Denarii

Phil Davis's excellent site focussing on the imitations of Republican denarii made by various "barbarous" peoples beyond the political control of Rome and, in some cases, within her economic sphere of interest.

Roman Coinage Featuring Britain

A Gazetteer of Commemorative Roman Coins featuring coins that were minted in Rome but were issued to commemorate victories or events that happened in Britannia.