A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc.
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Caria, Cos, Rhodes, and islands off Caria. It concentrates on Carian dynastic and civic issues, Rhodian plinthophoroi, Coan coinage, and island mints; useful for local rulers, magistrates, standards, symbols, and the early classification of complex southeastern Aegean series. 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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Barclay V. Head (1897) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Caria, Cos, Rhodes, etc.. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-18-caria/
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Ionia Vol. 16 · 1892
- 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
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria Vol. 20 · 1899
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia Vol. 21 · 1900
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phrygia Barclay V. Head, 1906
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Macedonia, etc. Barclay V. Head, 1879
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, Euboea) Barclay V. Head, 1884
Public domain — published 1897.