Doctrina Numorum Veterum, pars prima, vol. 4

The fourth volume completes the Greek part of the Doctrina with northern and mainland Greece and related royal series. It is useful for following the formation of regional and dynastic classifications, locating citations to eighteenth-century collections, and identifying the source of attributions repeated by later nineteenth-century manuals. The eight-volume Doctrina was foundational because it replaced much cabinet-by-cabinet description with an ordered system based on geography, minting authority, and historical sequence. It remains useful for tracing citation histories, reconstructing eighteenth-century scholarly arguments, and locating references to collections or coins no longer readily identifiable.

Read the Latin terminology carefully and distinguish the Greek section (vols. I–IV) from the Roman section (vols. V–VIII). Many dates, rulers, mints, readings, and authenticity judgments have been revised, so use the work primarily with modern corpora and current collection records.