A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Thessaly to Aetolia
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Thessaly, Illyria, Epirus, Acarnania, and Aetolia. It concentrates on Coinages of northern and western mainland Greece, including federal and civic issues; useful for ethnic legends, league types, magistrates, weight standards, and the museum provenance of rarer regional specimens. 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 (1883) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Thessaly to Aetolia. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-06-thessaly/
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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
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Crete and the Aegean Islands Vol. 9 · 1886
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- The Types of Greek Coins: An Archaeological Essay Percy Gardner, 1883
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, Euboea) Barclay V. Head, 1884
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Public domain — published 1883.