A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients: From Circ. B. C. 70 to A
- Author(s): Barclay Vincent Head and British Museum. Dept. Of Coins And Medal
- Category: Coins & Currency
- Publisher: Barclay Vincent Head and British Museum. Dept. Of Coins And Medal
- Publish year: 1909
- ISBN: 9678000002686
- Number of Pages: 154
The want of a general chronological view of the coinage of the ancients has long been felt by all who have devoted any study to this branch of archaeology. It is this want which I have here made a first attempt to supply. In the choice and classification of the coins described in the following pages, I have throughout endeavoured to keep simultaneously in view the historic, artistic, and strictly numismatic interest of the coins selected. Thus, and thus alone, have I found it possible to present to the spectator a tolerably complete representative series of the gold and silver money current throughout the ancient world in approximate chronological order.
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Copyright
A GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPAL GOLD AND SILVER COINS OF THE ANCIENTS
PREFACE
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
SELECT GREEK AND ROMAN COINS