Description de médailles antiques, grecques et romaines

This volume gathers the Greek and related coinages of Italy and Sicily, including the colonial mints of Magna Graecia. It is especially useful for early descriptions of incuse issues, Sicilian civic types, legends, and coins then held in Parisian and private cabinets. Like the rest of Mionnet’s Description, the entry is a nineteenth-century inventory of coins known from public cabinets, private collections, earlier books, and the market rather than a modern die corpus. Researchers should note Mionnet numbers, quoted owners, measurements, rarity marks, and cross-references, since these can connect a modern specimen to an early publication or dispersed cabinet.

The terminology, geography, authenticity judgments, dates, and attributions are often obsolete, and measurements may not follow modern conventions. Verify every identification against current corpora and use the original French volume and page when citing a specimen.