Ancient Numismatics on the Web

    Gold coin of Pyrrhos, king of Epirus,
    ca. 280 B.C.


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    "The Great" ca. 325 B.C.


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      Instructional Sites

    1. NEW! WildWinds Searchable Data Bank of Ancient Coins
    2. NEW! WildWinds Searchable Data Bank of Ancient Coins
    3. NEW! Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University. This is a beautifully crafted instructional site; the coins themselves are all of the highest quality, making this site well worth the visit for novice and expert alike!
    4. NEW! Ancient Greek and Roman Coins: Fourrees (Ancient Counterfeits!) A great place to learn how ancient forgers worked.
    5. NEW! Ancient Imitations of Roman Coins from Warren Esty
    6. Roman Coins of the Early Empire.
    7. And for a bit of fun, Sites of the Celators, an interesting little site put together by Thomas Pastorello, who has combined pictures of coins from his collection with photos of the sites they came from (e.g., Athens, Rome, Tarentum)!

      Organizations devoted to Ancient Numismatic Studies

    8. The American Numismatic Society:
      The Western Hemisphere's Greatest Numismatic Organization
    9. Odessa Virtual Museum of Numismatics (and it's bilingual!)
    10. Oriental Numismatic Society
    11. Royal Numismatic Society

      Searchable Databases and Bibliographies

    12. The Celtic Coin Index
    13. More: Celtic Coin Index
    14. Checklist of Coin Hoards in the British Isles, c.450-1180
    15. Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds
    16. The Harry Bass Research Foundation containing an immense, searchable bibliography.
    17. The Internet Coin Project
    18. The Portable Antiquities Scheme (recording archaeological finds in England and Wales)
    19. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
    20. STADIC (indexes to SCBI volumes)

      Periodicals and Discussion Lists

    21. The Celator an Internationally-distributed monthly magazine on ancient and Medieval art and numismatics.

      Museum and University Collections Online

    22. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Heberden Coin Room
    23. British Museum: Coins and Medals
    24. Cornucopia: Discovering UK Collections (details of UK museum collections)
    25. Dumbarton Oaks (Etexts, including Philip Grierson's Byzantine Coinage)
    26. Hunterian Museum, Glasgow: Coin Gallery

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