A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Bosporan Kingdom. It concentrates on Civic and royal coinages of the Black Sea and northern Anatolia; useful for dynastic portraits, local eras, monograms, countermarks, and the transition from Hellenistic to Roman provincial 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.
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Warwick Wroth (1889) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-13-pontus/
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37 plate pages indexed from this scan.
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Mysia Vol. 14 · 1892
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Alexandria and the Nomes Vol. 15 · 1892
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Ionia Vol. 16 · 1892
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