A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Lydia
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Lydia. It concentrates on Lydian royal, civic, cistophoric, and Roman provincial coinages; useful for early electrum and Croeseids, civic magistrates, local cult imagery, and the classification of numerous small bronze 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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Barclay V. Head (1901) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Lydia. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-22-lydia/
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36 plate pages indexed from this scan.
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Parthia Vol. 23 · 1903
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phrygia Vol. 25 · 1906
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