Persia
Also: Persien · Perse · Persia
Research guide
Recommended starting reference The Coinage of Lydia and Persia Barclay V. Head, 1877
Specialized Corpusnarrow regional scope3 plates
Standard references
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia BMC Arabia · 1922
- The Achaemenid Persians, the Satraps and the Tributary Dynasts Babelon, Perses · 1893
- Treatise on Greek and Roman Coins, Part II (Historical Description), vol. I Babelon, Traité II.1 · 1907
- Description of Ancient Greek and Roman Medals, vol. 7 (1837) Specialized Corpus · 1837
Source volumes with plates
General handbooks
- Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics HN² · 1911
- Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics HN¹ · 1887
- Treatise on Greek and Roman Coins, I: Theory and Doctrine Babelon, Traité I · 1901
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Doctrine of Ancient Coins, vol. 3 Josef Hilarius Eckhel, 1794 · c. 700 BC – AD 297 also Asia Minor, Bactria, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Cilicia, Cyprus -
Description of Ancient Greek and Roman Medals, vol. 15 (1809) Théodore E. Mionnet, 1809 · c. 700 BC – AD 297 also Africa, Bactria, Cyrenaica, Egypt, Judaea, Levant -
Description of Ancient Greek and Roman Medals, vol. 7 (1837) Théodore E. Mionnet, 1837 · c. 700 BC – AD 297 also Africa, Asia Minor, Bactria, Cilicia, Cyprus, Cyrenaica -
The Coinage of Lydia and Persia Barclay V. Head, 1877 · c. 700 BC – 323 BC also Asia Minor, Lydia -
The Achaemenid Persians, the Satraps and the Tributary Dynasts Ernest Babelon, 1893 · c. 700 BC – 323 BC also Asia Minor, Cilicia, Levant, Phoenicia -
Treatise on Greek and Roman Coins, Part II (Historical Description), vol. I Ernest Babelon, 1907 · c. 700 BC – 323 BC also Aeolis, Asia Minor, Bithynia, Ionia, Lydia, Mysia -
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia George Francis Hill, 1922 · c. 480 BC – 31 BC also Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persis