A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Ionia
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Ionia. It concentrates on Archaic through Roman provincial coinages of Ionian cities, including electrum, silver standards, civic magistrates, and local cult types; useful for mint attribution and tracing specimens in older literature. 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
Barclay V. Head (1892) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Ionia. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-16-ionia/
Research guides citing this work
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- Seleucid Syria A guide to BMC Seleucid, Babelon's Rois de Syrie, Newell's Antioch, and related works for Seleucid rulers, Syrian mints, Phoenician issues, and royal chronology. Asia Minor
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos Vol. 17 · 1894
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc. Vol. 18 · 1897
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia Vol. 19 · 1897
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Macedonia, etc. Barclay V. Head, 1879
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Public domain — published 1892.