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Greek Coin Reference Books

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  • Historia Numorum Italy, N K Rutter, British Museum Press, 2001

  • Historia Numorum, A manual of Greek Numismatics, Barclay V. Head, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1911

  • The Coinage of Caulonia, Numismatic Studies N. 9, Sydney P. Noe, 1958

  • The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Oliver D. Hoover:

    • Volume 1 - Handbook of the Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia

    • Volume 2 - Handbook of the Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara)

    • Volume 3 - Handbook of Coins of Macedon and its Neighbours, Part I

    • Volume 3 - Handbook of Coins of Macedon and its Neighbours, Part II

    • Volume 4 - Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece

    • Volume 5 - Handbook of Coins of the Peloponneseos

    • Volume 6 - Handbook of Coins of the Islands

    • Volume 7 - Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Anatolia

    • Volume 9 - Handbook of Syrian Coins

  • The Coinage of Metapontum Parts 1 and 2, Sydney P. Noe (with additions and corrections by Ann Johnston, AMS 1984

  • ​The Coinage of Metapontum Part 3, Ann Johnston, ANS New York 1990

  • Greek Coins and their Values (volumes I and II), David R Sear, Spink & Son Ltd., 1978

  • Pegasi (vols 1 and 2), Romolo Calciati, Edizioni IP 1990

  • The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, Martin Jessop Price, The British Museum - Swiss Numismatic Society, 1991

  • Catalogue of Greek Coins - Lycia, Pamphylia and Pisidia, G F Hill, Arnaldo Forni 1964Th 

  • Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Part I, Catharine C. Lorber, ANS 2023

  • The Tarsus Coin Collection in the Adana Museum, D. H. Cox, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 92, ANS 1941

  • Macedonian Regal Coinage to 413 BC, Doris Raymond, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 126, ANS 1953

  • The Euboian League and its Coinage, W. P. Wallace, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 134, ANS 1956​

  • The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus (vols 1 and 2), Martin Jessop Price, Swiss Numismatic Society 1991

  • Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum -  Italy, Arnaldo Forni, Reginald Stuart Poole, Bologna 1963  

  • The Ancient Boeotians and the Coinage of Boeotia, W. R. Robers & B. V. Head, Ares Publications1974 (integrated reprint of copies from 1891 and 1895)

  • Greek Coins and their Parent Cities, John Ward, John Murray 1902

  • ​ΠOTAMIKON, Sinews of Acheloios, A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, with Essays on Origin and Identity, Nicholas J. Molinari and Nicola Sisci, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2016

  • Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the Collection of Arthur Houghton, part II, Oliver D  Hoover, ANS 2007

  • Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Ionia I & II, Barclay V. Head, 1892 (reprint) Elibron Classics 

  • The Coins of Tarentum from VI Century BC to 350 BC, Edizioni D'Andrea 2022

  • A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins, John Melville Jones, Spink & Sons 1988

Books about Coins

  • Archaic and Classical Greek Coins, Colin M Kraay, University of California Press 1976

  • Greek Coins, Charles Seltman, Methuen & Co, 1933

  • Coins of Magna Graecia, The Coinage of the Greek Colonies of Southern Italy, Rev. W. A. Hands, Spink & Son Ltd. 1909

  • Greek Coins, A history of the Metallic Currency and Coinage Down to the Fall of the Hellenistic Kingdoms, Charles Seltman M.A., Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1933

  • Greek Coins & History - Some Current Problems.  Colin M. Kraay. Methuen & Co., 1969

  • Achaian League Coinage of the 3rd through 1st Centuries B.C.E., Steve M. Benner, CNG 2008

  • Ancient Coin Collecting (volumes I and II) 2nd Edition, Wayne G Sayles, K. P. Krause Publications, 2003

  • Campanian Coinages 475-380 BC, N.K.Rutter, Edinburgh University Press, 1979

  • A Bibliography of Greek Coin Hoards, Numismatic Notes and Monographs No.25, Sydney P Noe, AMS 1925

  • Historical Greek Coins, G.F.Hill. Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1906

  • Dictionary of Greek Coin Inscriptions, Identification of Coins by the Key-Letter and Fragmented Letter Method, Sanford J. Durst, 1979

  • The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, William E. Metcalf, Oxford University Press, 2012

  • ​The Coinage of the Lycian League, Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 162, Hyla A. Troxell, ANS 1982

  • Classical Deception - Counterfeits, Forgeries and Reproductions of Ancient Coins.  Wayne G Sayles. Krause Publications 2001

  • The Athenian Empire - Using Coins as Sources. Lisa Kallet & John H. Kroll. Cambridge Press, 2020

  • A History of Ancient Coinage, 700-300 BC, Percy Gardner, Scholar Select copy of Clarendon Press, 1918.

  • Numismata Imperatorum Romanorum Praesantiora A Julio Caesare Ad Postumum Et Tyrannos, Johannem Vaillant, 1694

  • Essays in Greek Coinage, Edited by C.M. Kraay and G. K Jenkins, Oxford University Press 1968

  • The Confederate Coinage of the Arcadians in the 5th Century BC, Roderick T. Williams, ANS New York 1965

  • Alexander Son of Neoptolemos of Epirus, M. P. Vlasto, Numismatic Chronicle Fifth Series Vol VI 1926

  • The Colts of Ambracia, Oscar Ravel, ANS Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 37, ANS 1928

  • Engravings of Unedited or Rare Greek Coins, Part 1 Europe, Lieutenant-General C.R. Fox, Bell and Dadly 1856

  • Testimonia Numaria Part II Greek and Latin Tests Concerning Ancient Greek Coinage, Melville Jones, Spink & Son Ltd. 2007

  • Essays on the Coinage of Alexander the Great, Alfred Bellinger, ANS New York 1963

  • Art and Coinage in Magna Graecia, R. Ross Holloway, Edizioni Arte e Moneta, Bellinzona

  • Italio-Greek Coins of Southern Italy, Alfred Watson Hands, Spink & Son 1912 (reprint)

  • ​Coin Collecting Manual I & II, H Noel Humphries, H. G. Boehn 1853

  • Hyria, A Lost City-State, Pasquale J Simonelli, Sacer Equestris Aureus Ordo Inc. 2000 (reprint)

  • Rare Greek Coins, C. R. Fox, Bell & Dadly 1856

  • Alexanders Coins and Alexanders Image, Carmen Arnold-Buicchi, Harvard University Art Museums, 2006

  • Coin Collectors Manual vols 1 and 2, H Noel Humphreys, H.G. Boehn 1853

  • A Numismatic Manual, John W Ackerman, Effingham Wilson 1832

  • The Evolution of Coinage, George McDonald, Cambridge University Press 1916

Syllogue Nummorum Graecorum

  • Turkey I, The Muharrem Jayhan Collection Part 2. Turkish Institute of Archaeology 2015

  • ​Israel I, The Arnold Spaer Collection of Seleucid Coins, Jerusalem 1998

  • The Collection of the American Numismatic Society Part 2 Lucania, ANS 1972

  • Deutcheland III, Ionien-Karien-Lydien, Sammlung v Aulock, Berlin 1968

  • Deutcheland IV, Phyrgien-Lykien-Pamphylien-Psidien-Lykonien-Isaurien-Kilikien-Galatien-Kappadokian-Kaizerzeitli-Kistophorien-Incerti, Sammlung v Aulock, Berlin 1968

  • Fitzwilliam Museum, Leake and General Collections, Part II, Sicily-Thrace, Oxford  University Press 1972

  • The Lockett Collection, Part III, Macedonia-Aegina, Oxford University Press 1957

  • The Arthur Dewing Collection of Greek Coins (part I and II), ANS 1985

  • Catalogue de la Collection de Luynes, vol 1 Italie et Sicile,  John Babelon 1924

  • A Catalogue of the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection of Greek Coins, Part 1 Italy, Sicily, Carthage, E.S.G. Robinson, Lisbon 1971

  • Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection, Volume 1 Itals, Sicily, Thrace and Thessaly, George McDonald, Arnaldo Forni 1975

Miscellaneous

  • Greek Coins, C. M. Kraay and Max Hirmer, Thames & Hudson 1966

  • Myth and Coinage - Representations, Symbolisms and Interpretations from Greek Mythology.   Alpha Bank, 2011

  • Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, Naoise Mac Sweeney, Cambridge University Press 2013

  • A Selection of Historical Greek Inscriptions, Vol 1, Marcus N Todd, Oxford University Press, 1946.

  • The New Century Classical Handbook, Cathering B. Avery, Appelton-Century-Crofts Inc., 1962

  • ​Literary History in the Parian Marble, Andrea Rotstein, Center for Hellenic Studies 68, 2016

  • The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, H. Valesius, I. Rhodomannus and F Ursinus.

  • Ancient Selfies - History Revealed through the Worlds first Social Media: Coins, Clinton Richardson, Read Janus 2019

  • 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, Harlan J Berk, Whiteman Publishing (third edition) 2023

  • The British Numismatic Journal, First Series Vol 2, 1905

  • Ancient and Later Coins Part II Greek Coins from the John Ward Collection, Sotherby & Co AG, April 1973

Roman Coin Books

  • Roman Republican Coinage I & II, Michael H. Crawford, Cambridge University Press, 2019

  • Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum 1 & 2, H A Grueber, 1910 (reprint)

  • The Roman Republic to 49 BC - Using Coins as Sources, Liv Mariah Yarrow, Cambridge University Press 2021

  • The Handbook of Roman Numismatics, Fred W Madden, Jon Russell Smith 1861

  • The John Max Wolfing Collection in Washington University Roman Republican Coins, Kevin Herbert, ANS 1987

  • Roman Republican Coins, Volume 2 200BC - 30 BC, Lorenzo Moretti, Artemide Aste s.r.l. 2025

Ancient Greek Literature

  • The Iliad, Homer, late 8th century BC

  • The Odyssey, Homer, late 8th century BC

  • ​The Histories, Heroditus, mid 5th century BC

  • Geography, Strabo, ~ 7 BC

  • Bibliotheca Historica, Diodorus Siculus, 60-30 BC

  • Anabasis (The Persian Expedition), Xenophon, 370 BC

  • The Odes, Pindar, mid-5th century BC

  • Theogony & Works and Days, Hesiod, 750-650 BC

  • The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides, 431-400 BC

  • On Sparta, Plutarch, 1st century AD

  • The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives, Plutarch, 1st century AD

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