A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Seleucid Kings of Syria
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Seleucid Syria and the Hellenistic East. It concentrates on Seleucid royal coinage arranged by ruler, mint, denomination, monogram, and type; useful for legacy BM numbers, early ruler and mint assignments, and the nineteenth-century collection history of individual tetradrachms and bronzes. 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.
Cite this work
Percy Gardner (1878) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Seleucid Kings of Syria. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-04-seleucid/
Research guides citing this work
- Seleucid Syria A guide to BMC Seleucid, Babelon's Rois de Syrie, Newell's Antioch, and related works for Seleucid rulers, Syrian mints, Phoenician issues, and royal chronology. Includes this work
- Hoards and Findspots A guide to Noe, Newell, hoard bibliography, find evidence, and search strategies for using Greek coin hoards to answer chronology and circulation questions. Levant · Syria
- Macedonia and Alexander A guide to BMC Macedonia, AMNG Macedonia and Paeonia, Newell's Demetrius, and related references for Macedonian royal, tribal, civic, and Alexander-type coinage. Levant
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Thessaly to Aetolia Vol. 6 · 1883
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Public domain — published 1878.