Last Updated: 7 Mar 2021
Combined Numismatic & Historical Bibliography
Note: For auction catalog research, see the separate bibliography on the Library of Sale Catalogs page.
Still updating & expanding. This is a start – including works cited elsewhere on the website & major references of general interest – but please check back & feel free to send suggestions.
(Most vols. in the Jackson-Jacobs library not yet added. The next order of business.)
Bold indicates standard numismatic abbreviation, not listed alphabetically by first author.
(*) = Hard copy, original or reprint, included in our library (Tucson, AZ or Champaign, IL).
Online references linked where possible (please tell us if we missed online versions & notify of any copyright violation found)
Album, Stephen. 2011. Checklist of Islamic Coins, 3rd edition. Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins.
Online: Free .pdf available here on his website (he has some of his scholarly articles available here too)
AMNG I (*) = Imhoof-Blumer, F. (ed.), Behrendt Pick & Kurt Regling. 1898-1910. Die antiken Münzen von Dacien und Moesien, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. Part I, 2 Volumes. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer.
AMNG III (*) = Imhoof-Blumer, F. (ed.) & Gaebler, Hugo. 1906. Die antiken Münzen von Makedonia und Paionia, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands Vol. III. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer.
Online from Archive.org
Anthony, John. (*) 1984. Collecting Greek Coins. New York: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd.
Babelon, Erenest. 1885-6 Monnaies de la Republique Romaine. 2 Vols. Paris: Rollin et Feuardent.
Available online: Vol 1 & Vol 2
Banti-Simonetti CNR [Imperial] = Banti, Alberto & Luigi Simonetti. 1972-1979. Corpus Nummorum Romanorum. 18 Vols. Florence: Forni Editore.
Banti CNR [Republican] = Banti, Alberto. 1980-1982. Corpus Nummorum Romanorum: Monetazione Republicana. 9 Vols. Florence: Forni Editore.
BCD Corith (*) = Numismatik Lanz. Münzen von Korinth: Sammlung BCD. Auction 105 (Munich, 26 November 2001).
BCD Thessaly I (*) = Nomos AG: Coins of Thessaly, The BCD Collection. Auction IV (Zurich, 10 May 2011).
BCD Thessaly II (*) = Classical Numismatic Group: The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly. Triton XV Auction. (3 January 2012, New York).
Berk, Harlan J. (*) 2018. 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, 2nd Edition. Racine, WI: Whitman.
Bodenstedt, Friedrich. 1981. Die Elektronmünzen von Phokaia und Mytilene. Tübingen: Wasmuth.
BMC (* / parts) = Various Authors. 1873-1927. A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum. London: British Museum.
BMC Alexandria = Pool, Reginald Stuart. 1892. A Catalog of the Greek Coins in the British Museum, Alexandria. London: British Museum. Online from Forum Ancient Coins
BMC Thessaly (*) = Gardner, Percy. 1883. A Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum: Thessaly to Aetolia, Volume 6. London: British Museum.
BMCRE = Mattingly, H. and Carson, R. (eds). 1923 – 1963. Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum. London: British Museum.
BMCRR = Grueber, H. 1910. Coins of the Roman Republic in The British Museum. London: British Museum.
Bradley, Keith. (*) 2004. “On Captives Under the Principate.” Phoenix 58 (3/4): 298-318
Available online via JSTOR (“Open Access” / .pdf)
Breglia, Laura. (*) 1968. Roman Imperial Coins: Their Art and Technique. London: Thames & Hudson.
Brilliant, Richard. (*) 1963. Gesture and Rank in Roman Art. New Have: Connecticut Academy.
Bruck Guido (*). 1961/2014. Late Roman Bronze Coinage: An Attribution Guide for Poorly Preserved Coins, tr. by Alisdair Menzies. Geneva.
Bury, John Bagnell. 1889. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 A.D). London: MacMillan.
Free eBook on Google Books
Calciati, Romolo. 1990. Pegasi. 2 Vols. Mortara, Italy: Edzioni.
Carbone, Lucia. (*) 2018. “Giovannia Dattari and his Fabled Collection of Alexandrian Coins.” ANS Magazine, 17 (2): 7-27.
Online from academia.edu page
Carradice, Ian & Martin Price. (*) 1988. Coinage in the Greek World. London: Seaby.
Carson, R.A.G. 1990. Coins of the Roman Empire. London: Routledge.
Caza, Shawn. 2019. “Back in the Saddle Again: A Re-Examination of the FEL TEMP REPARATIO Falling Horseman Type.” KOINON The International Journal of Classical Numismatic Studies Vol II: 113-146. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress Publishing.
Online via academia
Clain-Stefanelli (*) = Clain-Stefanelli, E. E. 1985. Numismatic Bibliography. Munich: Battenberg.
Cohen = Cohen, Henry. 1880-92. Description Historique des Monnaies Frappées sous l ‘Empire Romain. 8 Vols. Paris: Rollin & Feuardent.
Online: see VirtualCohen.com. For individual volumes, some downloadable .pdf, see FORVM-Numiswiki Cohen entry
Crawford = Crawford, Michael. 1974. Roman Republican Coinage. Cambridge University Press.
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online (CRRO), by the ANS & NYU, aims to provide coverage of Crawford’s volumes.
Crawford CMRR = Crawford, Michael H. 1985. Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic. Berkeley: University of California.
Crawford, Michael H. (*) 1979/1992. The Roman Republic. 2nd edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Curtis (*/*) = Curtis, James. 1957/1969/1990. The Tetradrachms of Roman Egypt. Expanded ed. NY: Durst.
Daehn (*) = Daehn, William. 2013. Annotated Bibliography of Ancient Greek Numismatics. Lancaster, PA: CNG.
Dattari = Dattari, Giovanni. 1901. Numi Augg. Alexandrini. 2 Volumes.Cairo: Tipografia dell’instituto francese d’archeologia orientale.
Available online: Volume 1 & Volume 2 (plates)
Dattari-Savio (*) = Savio, Adriano, editor. 2007. Catalogo completo della collezione Dattari – Numi Augg. Alexandrini. 2nd ed. Trieste. [First ed. 1999.]
DOC = Bellinger, Alfred, Philip Grierson, and Michael Hendy. 1966-1999. Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection. Volumes 1-5.
Online from DOAKS
Emmett (*) = Emmett, Keith. Alexandrian Coins. Lodi, WI: Clio’s Cabinet. 2001.
ERIC II (*) = Suarez, Rasiel. 2005/2010. Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins, 2nd Edition. Asheville, NC: Dirty Old Books.
Online: To Ras’s great credit, he released it CC-BY-NC-ND in 2010
Essays Mattingly (*) = Carson, R.A.G. & C.H.V. Sutherland, eds. 1956/1979. Essays in Roman Coinage presented to Harold Mattingly. London: Oxford [1956]/Scientia Verlag Aalen: Darmstadt, Germany [1979].
Essays Robinson = Kraay, C.M. & G.K. Jenkins, eds. 1968 Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
Failmezger, Victor. 1992 (October). “FEL TEMP REPARATIO emphasized Rome’s protection of the frontier against barbarians.” The Celator 6 (10): 14-20.
Online from VCoins Community
Failmezger, Victor. 2002. Roman Bronze Coins from Paganism to Christianity 294-364 AD. Washington, DC: Ross.
Fanning, David. (*) 2020. Ancient Coins in Early American Auctions, 1869-1939. Gahanna, OH: Kolbe & Fanning.
Online from Archive
Forrer, Leonard. (*) 1969. Portraits of Royal Ladies on Greek Coins. Chicago: Argonaut.
Gardner, Percy. 1883. The Types of Greek Coins: An Archaeological Essay. Cambridge U Press.
Geissen-Köln = Geissen, A. 1974-1983. Katalog Alexandrinischer Kaisermünzen der Sammlung des Instituts für Altertumskunde der Universität zu Köln. 5 Vols. University of Cologne.
Göbl MIR = Göbl, Robert, et al. 1984 – 2000. Moneta Imperii Romani. 5 Volumes. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Grant, Michael. (*) 2002. The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 BC-AD 476. London: Phoenix.
Hendin, David. (*) 2007. Ancient Scale Weights and Pre-Coinage Currency of the Near East. New York: Amphora.
Hendin GBC (*) = Hendin, David. 2010. Guide to Biblical Coins. 5th edition. New York: Amphora.
HGC 4 = Hoover, Oliver. 2014. Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece. Lancaster, PA: CNG.
HN (*) = Head, Barclay, et al. 1887/1911. Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics. Oxford: Clarendon.
Content Available online: Ed Snible et al. FORVM / Numiswiki.
HN Illustrations (*) = Svoronos, John & Barclay Head. 1968. The Illustrations of Historia Numorum – An Atlas of Greek Numismatics. Chicago: Argonaut.
Howgego, Christopher. (*) 1985. Greek Imperial Countermarks. London: Spink / Royal Numismatic Society.
Juhasz, Lajos. 2016. “Bronze Head with Suebian Nodus from Aquincum.” Dissertationes Archaeologicae. Budapest: Instituto Archaeologico, Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös.
Online via Researchgate
Juhasz, Lajos. 2019. “The Iconography of the Roman Province Personifications and their Role in the Imperial Propaganda.” Dissertationes Archaeologicae. Budapest: Instituto Archaeologico, Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös.
Online via Researchgate
K & G = Kampmann, Ursula & Ganschow, Thomas. 2008. Die Münzen der römischen Münzstätte Alexandria. Regenstauf: Battenberg Verlag.
Kent, J. P. C. (*) 1967. “FEL. TEMP. REPARATIO.” Numismatic Chronicle 7: 83-90.
Online via JSTOR
Klawans, Zander. (*) 1995. Collecting Greek Coins: An Official Whitman Guidebook. Racine, WI: Whitman.
Little, Lester K., ed. 2007. Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Cambridge University Press.
Preview on Google Books
Lorber NFA (*) = Lorber, Cathy. 1987. “Coins of the Seleukid Kings,” in Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII. Catalog of public auction (31 March, 1987). Los Angeles: NFA.
Also known as The Arthur Houghton Collection.
LRBC = Carson, R.A.G., J.P.C. Kent & P.V. Hill. 1978. Late Roman Bronze Coinage, A.D. 324-498. London: Spink.
MacDonald, David. (*) 2009. Overstruck Greek Coins: Studies in Greek Chronology and Monetary Theory. Racine, WI: Whitman.
Mattingly, Harold. (*) 1928. Roman Coins From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. London: Methuen.
Mattingly, Harold. (*) 1933. “FEL.TEMP.REPARATIO.” The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society 13 (51): 182-202.
Online via JSTOR
MIB = Hahn, Wolfgang. 1973-1981. Moneta Imperii Byzantini. 3 Vols. Vienna: Österreichen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
MIR (See Göbl MIR)
Milne, J. G. 1933. A Catalogue of the Alexandrian Coins in the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
Norwich, John Julius. (*) 1997. A Short History of Byzantium. New York: Vintage Books.
Noucek, Debra. (*) 2008. “Turning Points in Roman History: The Case of Caesar’s Elephant Denarius.” Phoenix 62 (3/4): 290-307.
Available: .pdf on JSTOR
Pangerl, Andreas. (*) 2017. Portraits: 500 Years of Roman Coin Portraits. Munich: Staaliche Münzsammlung.
Papaevangelou-Genakos, Christos. 2004. “Metrological Aspects of the Thessalian Bronze Coinages: The Case of Phalanna” in Obolos 7 — Coins In The Thessalian Region: Mints, Circulation, Iconography, History. Ancient, Byzantine, Modern. Athens: Nomismatikou Mouseiou.
Price, Martin Jessop. 1991. The Coinage of in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, volumes 1 & 2. London: British Museum.
PDF of volume 1 (no plates) can be found online
See also PELLA (ANS) database
Procopius of Caesarea. Translated by H. B. Dewing, 1914. History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2. (Persian War). Loeb Classical Library 48. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Online at Project Gutenberg
Ravel Colts = Ravel, Oscar. 1928. The “Colts” of Ambracia. ANSNNM 37. New York: American Numismatic Society.
Available online from ANS Online Digital Library, including plates
Ravel, Oscar. 1979/1936-1948. Les “Poulains” de Corinthe: Monographie des statères corinthiens. Single Vol. Chicago: Obol (Reprint of 2 Vol Münzhandlung Basel ed.).
Reifenberg, Adolf. (*) 1940. Ancient Jewish Coins. Jerusalem: R. Mass.
RIC (*, parts) = Mattingly, Harold, Edward Sydenham, CHV Sutherland, & RAG Carson. 1926 – 2019. The Roman Imperial Coinage. 10 Volumes. London: Spink.
Online Coinage of the Roman Empire (OCRE), hosted by ANS & NYU, provides comparable coverage.
Rogers, Edgar. 1932. The Copper Coinage of Thessaly. London: Spink & Sons.
RPC Online = Various authors. Roman Provincial Coinage Project Online. Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Online: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/
RPC VII.2. = Mairat, J. et al. (in press). Roman Provincial Coinage. Volume VII, part 2. From Gordian I to Gordian III (AD 238–244): all provinces except Asia. London: British Museum.
RSC (*) = Sear, David. 1978 – 1987. Roman Silver Coins. 5 Volumes. London: Seaby.
Sayles (*) = Sayles, Wayne. 1996-2007. Ancient Coin Collecting. Six vols. Iola, WI: Krause Publications.
* Vol I: Ancient Coin Collecting.
* Vol II: Numismatic Art of the Greek World.
* Vol III: The Roman World – Politics and Propaganda.
* Vol IV: Roman Provincial Coins.
* Vol V: The Romaion/Byzantine Culture. [Online via Scribd]
* Vol VI: Non-Classical Cultures.
Sayles, Wayne. (*) 2001. Classical Deception: Counterfeits, Forgeries and Reproductions. Iola, WI: Krause Publications.
SB (*) = Sear Byzantine = Sear, David R., et al. 1978. Byzantine Coins and Their Values. 2nd edition. London: Seaby.
SC = Houghton, Arthur, Catharine Lorber & Oliver Hoover. 2002-2008. Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalog. 2 Parts. New York & Lancaster, PA: ANS & CNG Coins.
See the Seleucid Coins Online (ANS) database
Schönert-Geiss, Edith. 1987. Die Münzprägung von Maroneia. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
Sear CRI = Sear, David. 1998. The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49 BC – 27 BC. London: Spink.
Sear GIC (*) = Sear, David. 1982. Greek Imperial Coins and Their Values. London: Seaby.
Sear GCV I & II (*) = Sear, David. 1978-1979. Greek Coins and Their Values. 2 vols. London: Seaby.
Seltman (*/*) = Seltman, Charles. [1933] 1955/1977. Greek Coins. London: Methuen.
Sheedy, Kenneth. 2015. “Aegina, the Cyclades, and Crete,” pages 105-125 in William Metcalf, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
SNG (Online) = Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Project & Database. Cambridge, UK: The Britsh Academy & Fitzwilliam Museum.
SNG Ashmolean = Various Authors. 1951-2013. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume V: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. London: Oxford University Press.
SNG Lockett = Robinson, E.S.G. 1938 – 1949. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Great Britain III, R.C. Lockett Collection. Parts I-V. London: Oxford University Press.
de Souza, Philip. (*) 2011. “War, Slavery, and Empire in Roman Imperial Iconography.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 54 (1): 31-62.
Available online via JSTOR (“Open Access” / .pdf)
Spring (*) = Spring, John. 2009. Ancient Coin Auction Catalogs: 1880-1980. London: Spink.
SRCV (1988) (*) = Sear, David R. 1988. Roman Coins and Their Values. London: Seaby.
SRCV = Sear, David R. 2000-2014. Roman Coins and Their Values. 5 Volumes. London: Spink.
Stevenson, Seth W. 1889. Dictionary of Roman Coins. London: Bell & Sons.
Available online via FORVM’s Numiswiki
Sutherland. C H V. 1974. Roman Coins. London: Barrie & Jenkins
Sutherland. C H V. (*) 1951. Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy, 31 BC – 68 AD. London: Methuen.
Sydenham, Edward. 1952. The Coinage of the Roman Republic. London: Spink.
Tameanko, Marvin. (*). 1999. Monumental Coins: Buildings & Structures on Ancient Coinage. Krause Publications.
Thompson, Margaret. 1961. The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens. 2 Volumes. ANSNS 10. New York: American Numismatic Society.
Volume 1 (no plates) Available on ANS. Vol 2 (plates) can be found online (e.g. here at doku.pub)
Thompson, Margaret. 1968. “The Mints of Lysimachus,” in Essays Robinson. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
Vaneerdewegh, Nick. (*) 2017. “Fel Temp Reparatio: image, audience and meaning in the mid-4th century.” Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 163: 143-166.
Online via Academia
Waldstein, Charles. 1885. Essays on the Art of Pheidias. Cambridge University Press.
Online via Google Books: Free ebook (1885 ed.), .pdf (read/download)
Wilcox, Peter. 1989. Rome ‘s Enemies: Germanics and Dacians. London: Osprey.
Available online from Imperium-Romana (NZ)
Williams, Roderick. 1992. Silver Coinage of Velia. London: Royal Numismatic Society.
Partially searchable/“snippet view” via Google Books
Wulfing = Herbert, Kevin. (*) 1987. The John Max Wulfing collection in Washington University: Roman republican coins. Ancient Coins in North American Collections 7. New York: American Numismatic Society.