Numismatics

Please be advised that the titles featured below are merely representative of the New York Public Library’s holdings on this topic and should not be mistaken for an exhaustive list. To locate additional resources, researchers may find it helpful to search the Library’s online catalog, CATNYP, using the following subject headings:

Coins, Classical
Coins, Greek
Coins, Roman
Numismatics

In addition, researchers may want to perform general searches in CATNYP for the following classmark headings:

Call number “MHL” for ancient numismatics
Call number “MHM” for Greek numismatics
Call number “MHN” for Roman numismatics
Call number “MHO” for Byzantine numismatics

Sourcebooks

Jones, John R. Testimonia numaria: Greek and Latin texts concerning ancient Greek coinage. London: Spink, 1993. JFL 93-624.

Bibliography and reference

Krause, Hermann. Numismatisches Wörterbuch. Deutsch-englisch, englisch-deutsch. München: E. Battenberg, 1971. JFD 75-8648.

Malter, Joel L. Byzantine numismatic bibliography, 1950-1965. Chicago: Argonaut, 1968. D-18 8897.

Historical, methodological and critical studies

Balmuth, Miriam S., ed. Hacksilber to coinage: new insights into the monetary history of the Near East and Greece. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2001. JFG 03-309.

Banti, Alberto. Corpus Nummorum Romanorum: Monetazione Republicana: Classificazione per Ordine Alfabetico delle Monete Coniate ai Nomi delle Famiglie. 9 vols. Firenze: A. Banti, 1980-. JFM 82-170.

British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals. Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum. 5 v. in plates. London: Published by the Trustees of The British Museum, 1968-. *RR-MHN.

Casson, Lionel and Martin Price, eds. Coins, culture and history in the ancient world: numismatic and other studies in honor of Bluma L. Trell. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1981. JFF 83-877.

Chitescu, Maria. Numismatic aspects of the history of the Dacian state: the Roman Republican coinage in Dacia and Geto-Dacian coins of Roman type. Translated by Cornelia Urdea. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1981. JFF 86-94.

Goodacre, Hugh. The bronze coinage of the late Roman empire. London, Spink & Son ltd., 1922. *C-4 p.v.678.

Holt, Frank L. Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. JFE 03-16853.

Holt, Frank L. Thundering Zeus: the making of Hellenistic Bactria. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. JFE 99-8366.

Howgego, C. J. Ancient History from Coins. London; New York: Routledge, 1995. JFD 96-3245.

Laing, Lloyd R. Coins and archaeology. New York: Schocken Books, 1970. JFD 71-83.

Lane-Poole, Stanley, ed. Coins and medals, their place in history and art; by the authors of the British museum official catalogues. London: E. Stock, 1894. MHC.

Levy, Brooks E., and Pierre C.V. Bastien. Roman Coins in the Princeton University Library. Wetteren, Belgium: Editions NR, 1985-. JFM 88-8 Vol. 1.

Regling, Kurt. Ancient numismatics; the coinage of ancient Greece and Rome. Translation by Terry Merz. Chicago: Argonaut, Inc., 1969. D-19 9274.

Mattingly, Harold, ed. The Roman Imperial Coinage. 9 v. in 12. London: Spink & Son, 1923-1981. *R-MHN 78-3443.

Sutherland, C. H. V. Ancient numismatics: a brief introduction. New York: American Numismatics Society, 1958. D-11 7539.

Sutherland, C. H. V. Art in coinage: the aesthetics of money from Greece to the present day. London: B. T. Batsford, 1955. MHC.

Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. London: Published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1931-. MHM+. An ongoing series of complete photographic records of large or medium-sized public (a few private) collections in different countries.