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A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia

Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC

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Historical Geography LevantPhoenicia
Chronological Coverage ClassicalHellenistic

This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Phoenicia. It concentrates on Coinages of Arados, Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, and other Phoenician mints from Persian through Roman rule; useful for local eras, Phoenician and Greek legends, royal issues, civic types, and mint standards. 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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George Francis Hill (1910) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-26-phoenicia/

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  1. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Parthia Vol. 23 · 1903
  2. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Cyprus Vol. 24 · 1904
  3. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phrygia Vol. 25 · 1906
  4. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia Vol. 26 · 1910
  5. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Palestine (Galilee, Samaria, Judaea) Vol. 27 · 1914
  6. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia Vol. 28 · 1922
  7. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Cyrenaica Vol. 29 · 1927

Public domain — published 1910.