A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Ptolemaic Egypt, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, and overseas possessions. It concentrates on Ptolemaic gold, silver, and bronze coinage arranged by ruler and type; useful for old portrait identifications, denominations, mint marks, and BM provenances that later scholarship reclassified. 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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Reginald Stuart Poole (1883) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: The Ptolemies, Kings of Egypt. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-07-ptolemies/
Research guides citing this work
- Ptolemaic Egypt A guide to Svoronos, BMC Ptolemies, Alexandrian and Egyptian material, and hoard evidence for Ptolemaic royal coinage. 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. Egypt
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21 plate pages indexed from this scan.
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Public domain — published 1883.