Classes generales seu moneta vetus urbium populorum et regum

The 1821 edition expands Sestini’s geographical arrangement of ancient coinage by cities, peoples, and kings. It serves as a bridge between eighteenth-century cabinet scholarship and the more detailed regional catalogues of the later nineteenth century. Researchers can use it to decode old place names, follow changes from Sestini’s 1797 classifications, and identify the bibliographic source behind attributions repeated in sale catalogues or early museum inventories.

Because the work predates much of the modern archaeological, die-study, and provenance evidence, verify chronology, mint and ruler assignments, legend readings, authenticity, and present specimen locations against current corpora and databases.