Zeitschrift für Numismatik, vol. 4

Zeitschrift für Numismatik, Vol. 4, is a German scholarly volume cited as ZfN 4 (1877). As an early volume of the Berlin journal, it records the rapid development of German museum-based Greek numismatics in the 1870s. The plates and detailed German descriptions are useful for matching specimens, following successive mint hypotheses, and understanding the empirical basis of classifications later absorbed into AMNG, BMC, and regional corpora. Researchers should use the contents index to locate the individual article, then record its author, pages, and plates rather than relying on the volume abbreviation alone.

Because chronology, political geography, museum inventories, and authenticity assessments have changed, check dates, mint assignments, legend readings, hoard reconstructions, and current specimen locations against modern corpora and institutional databases.