A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Macedonia, etc.
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Macedonia and Paeonia. It concentrates on Macedonian royal, tribal, federal, and civic coinages, including the Argeads, Philip II, Alexander III, and successor issues; useful for monograms, mint attributions, and early organization of complex royal series. 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 (1879) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Macedonia, etc.. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-05-macedonia/
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29 volumes in this series.
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- 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
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, Euboea) Vol. 8 · 1884
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Ionia Barclay V. Head, 1892
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc. Barclay V. Head, 1897
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Public domain — published 1879.