A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, and Thrace. It concentrates on Black Sea, Danubian, and Thracian civic and royal issues; useful for ethnic legends, local rulers, countermarks, and identifying specimens cited before the AMNG and modern provincial corpora. Entries normally record metal, denomination, weight, diameter, legends, types, rulers or magistrates, acquisition data, and cross-references, while the plates preserve the appearance of many frequently cited specimens. Researchers can use the volume to resolve abbreviated BMC citations, identify individual museum coins, recover old readings and provenances, and understand the evidence on which later classifications were built.
Because the museum collection, inventory records, and scholarship have changed substantially since publication, check catalogue numbers, current attributions, dates, legends, and provenance against the British Museum Collection Online and the latest regional or dynastic corpus.
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Barclay V. Head & Percy Gardner (1877) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-03-thrace/
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29 volumes in this series.
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Italy Vol. 1 · 1873
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Sicily Vol. 2 · 1876
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace Vol. 3 · 1877
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Seleucid Kings of Syria Vol. 4 · 1878
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Macedonia, etc. Vol. 5 · 1879
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Thessaly to Aetolia Vol. 6 · 1883
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt Vol. 7 · 1883
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Italy Reginald Stuart Poole, 1873
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Macedonia, etc. Barclay V. Head, 1879
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Thessaly to Aetolia Percy Gardner, 1883
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt Reginald Stuart Poole, 1883
Public domain — published 1877.