The Numismatic Chronicle 1878

The Numismatic Chronicle 1878 is the annual London volume cited as NC 1878. This volume comes from a period of expanding museum cataloguing and increasingly comparative work on Greek mints, kingdoms, legends, and metrology. It combines formal papers with brief communications, discoveries, book notices, and society records that document the evidence available to scholars before the great late nineteenth-century corpora. Reviews and notices of new books provide a contemporary map of the literature, often identifying offprints, catalogues, and foreign articles that are now difficult to locate through modern bibliographies. For a useful citation, record the article author, title, page range, and plate rather than citing only the year.

Because the volume predates modern excavation standards, comprehensive die databases, and many subsequent hoard publications, verify dates, mint and ruler assignments, readings, and reported provenances against current corpora and the present location of cited specimens.