Research Library

This page organizes and shares online resources that I have found useful for researching coins and history.

General Interest

• ACSearch

• Album, Checklist of Islamic Coins

• American Numismatic Society Collections

• Ancient History Sourcebook (Fordham)

• Ancient World Mapping Center (UNC)

• Archive.org (27M Books)

• British Museum Collections

• Digital Library Numis

• Dumbarton Oaks (Byzantine)

• Doug Smith's Ancient Coin Site

• FORVM Library of Ancient Coins

• The Celator

• Classical Texts Library

• CoinWeek Ancients

• Coryssa Coin Database

• Dr. Ilya Prokopov's Fake Database

• JSTOR - search books and journals

• Livius Ancient History Articles

• Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE)

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

• Perseus Digital Library

• Rivista Italiana di Numismatica

• Scribd : collections of publications

• SixBid Collector Archive

• SNG - Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau

• Wildwinds - broad coin databases

• Zeitschrift für Numismatik (Berlin)

Parthian

• Parthia.Com

• Le Parthes et Leur Monnoyage

• Parthian Articles from G.R.F. Assar

• The Parthian Coinage (Percy Gardner)

• Encyclopaedia Iranica

• The Political History of Iran under the Arsacids (A.D.H. Bivar)

• Baldwin Sale catalogs (Sunrise Collection, Sellwood Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV)

• Parthian Drachm ID (based on Sellwood)

• Pieter Anne van't Haaff, Catalogue of Persis Coinage

Roman Provincials

• Roman Provincial Coinage Online

• Corpus Nummorum (Moesia Inferior, Thrace, Mysia, and the Troad)

• Coins of Roman Egypt

• Asia Minor Coins

• CoinProject.Com

Greek

Roman Republican

• CRRO - Coinage of the Roman Republic Online

• Roman Republican Coin Types & Dating (Warren Esty)

• Anonymous Roman Republican Denarii (Steve Brinkman)

• Anonymous Victoriati (Kenneth L. Friedman, Richard Schaefer)

• RR Coins and Books (Andrew McCabe)

• Imitations of Roman Republican Denarii (Phil Davis)

• CHHR Online - Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic Online

• BABELON E., Description historique et cronologique des monnaies de la République Romaine, Rollin et Fevardent - Paris 1885

  • Volume 1

  • Volume 2

• Roman Republican Die Project (Richard Shaefer)

  • Lucia Carbone

  • Liz Yarrow

• Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic

Himyarite Kingdom (Arabia Felix)

• Seleucid Coins Online

• Numismatics & History of the Seleukid

• Seleucid Coins (allcoinage.com)

• Coins from the Southern Levant

• Hellenistic Royal Coinages

• Pella Coins of Macedonia

• Bosporus Kingdom (Beast)

• British Museum: Catalogue of the Greek coins of Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria

• Ptolemaic Coinage (Svonoros)

• Sassanian Coins (Beast)

• Illyrian Coins

• Nikola Moushmov, Ancient Coins of the Balkan Peninsula

• Catalogue Of The Greek Coins Of Mysia (Warwick Roth)

• Syllogue Nummorum Graecorum

• Alexander the Great Tetradrachms

• Snible.org

• Coins of the Bosporan Kingdom

• Persian (Achaemenid) Sigloi (Hill, Forvm) 

Roman Imperial

• OCRE - Online Coins of the Roman Empire

• Roman Imperial Coinage (AD 268-276)

• Late Roman Broze (LRB) Types

• Probus Coins

• Barnaba6 Collection of Probus

• Museum of Roman Countermarks

• British Museum Coin of the Roman Empire (BMCRE)

• Göbl Numbers for Gallienus at pair.com

• Gallienus.net

• CoinWeek Coins of Yemen

• Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms

• Munro-Hay, Ancient South Arabian Coinage