A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia
Chronological coverage: c. 480 BC – 31 BC
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This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Arabia, Mesopotamia, Persis, and neighboring eastern regions. It concentrates on Civic, dynastic, Parthian-period, and Roman provincial issues across Arabia and Mesopotamia, with Persis and related eastern series; useful for local rulers, scripts, eras, and rare mint attributions. 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 (1922) A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Numophylacium Graecum, https://numophylacium.com/works/bmc-greek-28-arabia/
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29 volumes in this series.
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Parthia Vol. 23 · 1903
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Cyprus Vol. 24 · 1904
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phrygia Vol. 25 · 1906
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia Vol. 26 · 1910
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Palestine (Galilee, Samaria, Judaea) Vol. 27 · 1914
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia, and Persia Vol. 28 · 1922
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Cyrenaica Vol. 29 · 1927
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- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Cyprus George Francis Hill, 1904
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia George Francis Hill, 1910
- A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Palestine (Galilee, Samaria, Judaea) George Francis Hill, 1914
- A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins George Francis Hill, 1899
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