A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Crete and the Aegean Islands
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Crete and the Aegean islands. It concentrates on Cretan and insular coinages, including locally distinctive mythological types and overstrikes; useful for city attributions, ethnic legends, weight standards, and the provenance of rare island issues. 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
Warwick Wroth (1886) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Crete and the Aegean Islands. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-09-crete/
Research guides citing this work
- Crete A guide to Svoronos, BMC Crete, Macdonald's metrological note, and indexed references for Cretan civic coinage. Includes this work
- Weights and Standards A guide to Hultsch, Head, Macdonald, Babelon, and catalogue evidence for Attic, Aeginetan, Euboic, Phoenician, and local Greek weight standards. Aegean Islands · Crete
- Athenian Owls A bibliographic pathway for Athenian owls, early Attic silver, Aeginetan turtles, and legacy references for Attica, Megaris, and Aegina. Aegean Islands
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- 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
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Peloponnesus Vol. 10 · 1887
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Attica, Megaris, Aegina Vol. 11 · 1888
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Corinth, Colonies of Corinth, etc. Vol. 12 · 1889
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Attica, Megaris, Aegina Barclay V. Head, 1888
Public domain — published 1886.