Reading list
General Introduction to the History of
Money
General Surveys of the History of
Coinage
Detailed Introductions to Specific
Series of Coins, Medals and Paper Money
Celtic
Coins
Byzantine
Coins
Medieval
Coins
British
Coins
Oriental
Coins
Greek Coins
Roman
Coins
Modern
Coins
Jetons, counters, etc
Tokens
Medals
Paper
Money
Children's Books on Coins and Paper
Money
General Introduction to the History of Money
A Burnett, Interpreting the Past: Coins (British Museum
Publications 1991)
J Casey and R Reece, Coins and the Archaeologist (B A Seaby Ltd
1988)
J Casey, Understanding Ancient Coins (London 1986)
J Cribb, Money: From Cowrie Shells to Credit Cards (British
Museum Publications 1986)
D R Cooper, The Art and Craft of Coin-making (Spink & Son
Ltd 1988)
R G Doty, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Numismatics (1982)
A R Frey, Dictionary of Numismatic Names (New York 1965)
(revised edition 1973) Grierson, P Numismatics (Oxford University
Press 1975)
J Porteous, Coins in History (London 1969)
J Williams, (ed.) Money: A History (British Museum Publications
1997)
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General Surveys of the History of Coinage
G A Boon, Hundred and One Coins (National Museum of Wales
1973)
R A G Carson, Coins: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Hutchinson
1962, reprinted 1972)
J Cribb and B Cook, The Coin Atlas: the World of Coinage from
its Origins to the Present Day (Macdonald Illustrated & Spink
& Son Ltd 1990)
I Carradice and M Price, Coins: An Illustrated Survey 650BC to
the Present Day (Hamlyn 1980)
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Detailed Introductions to Specific Series of Coins, Medals and
Paper Money
Celtic Coins
D Nash, Coinage in the Celtic World (B A Seaby Ltd 1987)
P de Jersey, Celtic Coinage in Britain (Shire Archaeology
1996)
R D van Arsdell, Celtic Coinage of Britain (Spink & Son Ltd
1989)
R Hobbs, British Iron Age Coins in the British Museum (British
Museum Press 1996) Byzantine Coins
D Sear, Byzantine Coins and their Values (B A Seaby Ltd
1987)
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Byzantine Coins
P Grierson, Byzantine Coins (Methuen 1982)
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Medieval Coins
P Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe (B A Seaby Ltd 1991)
P Spufford, Money and its Use in Medieval Europe (Cambridge
University Press 1988)
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British Coins
E Besly, Coins and Medals of the English Civil War (B A Seaby
Ltd 1990)
G C Brooke, English Coins (Spink & Son Ltd 1932, reprinted
1976)
P Seaby, The Story of British Coinage (B A Seaby Ltd 1985)
C H V Sutherland, English Coinage 600-1900 (London 1973)
C M Cope and P A Rayner, The Standard Catalogue of English
Milled Coinage 1662-1972 (Spink & Son Ltd 1975)
S Mitchell and B Reeds, Coins of England and the United Kingdom
- Standard Catalogue (B A Seaby Ltd 1991) (annual)
J J North, English Hammered Coinage Vol I c 600-1272 (2nd
edition) (Spink & Son Ltd 1980) Vol II 1272-1662 (3rd edition)
(Spink & Son Ltd 1991)
C W Peck, English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British
Museum 1558-1958 (British Museum Trustees 1959)
P Seaby and P F Purvey, Coins of Scotland, Ireland and the
Islands (B A Seaby Ltd 1984)
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Oriental Coins
M A Broome, Handbook of Islamic Coins (B A Seaby Ltd 1985)
C R Bruce and others, The Standard Guide to South Asian Coins
and Paper Money, since 1556 AD (Krause Publications, Iola,
Wisconsin 1981)
P L Gupta, India - the Land and People: Coins (New Delhi 1969,
revised edition 1990)
R Plant, Arabic Coins and How to Read Them (B A Seaby Ltd 1973,
revised edition 1980)
H Wang, (trans.) Zhongguo Qianbi/ China Numismatics (English
summaries of journal articles) (2000-2001)
A P de Clemont and J Wheeler, Spinks Catalogue of Colonial and
Commonwealth Coins (Spink & Son Ltd 1986)
F Pridmore, The Coins of the British Commonwealth of Nations
Part I European Territories (Spink & Son Ltd 1960)
Part II Asian Territories (Spink & Son Ltd1962)
Part III Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras and the British
West Indies (Spink & Son Ltd 1965)
Part IV India (2 vols) (Spink & Son Ltd 1980)
R Göbl, Sasanian Numismatics (Klinkhardt & Biermann
1971)
S Lane Poole, Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum,
volumes 1-10 (British Museum Trustees 1875-90)
S Lane Poole, Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum,
volumes 1-7 (British Museum Trustees 1886-1936)
M Mitchiner, Oriental Coins and their Values
I The Ancient and Classical World (Hawkins 1978)
II The World of Islam (Hawkins 1977)
III Non-Islamic States and Western Colonies AD 600-1979 (Hawkins
1979)
R S Poole, Catalogue of Persian Coins in the British Museum
(British Museum Trustees 1887)
D G Sellwood and others, An Introduction to Sasanian Coins
(Spink & Son Ltd 1985)
J Walker, Catalogue of Muhammedan Coins in the British
Museum
I Arab-Sasanian Coins (British Museum Trustees 1941)
II Arab-Byzantine & Post-reform Ummayad Coins (British Museum
Trustees 1956)
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Greek Coins
R S Poole and others, Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British
Museum, volumes 1-29 (British Museum Trustees 1873-1927)
M J Price, Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus, 2 volumes
(British Museum Press & Swiss Numismatic Society 1991)
N K Rutter, et al., Historia Nummorum (British Museum Press
2001)
D Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, I: Europe (B A Seaby Ltd
1978)
D Sear, Greek Coins and their Values, II: Asia & Africa (B A
Seaby Ltd 1979)
D Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values (B A Seaby Ltd
1982)
D G Sellwood, An Introduction to the Coinage of Parthia (Spink
& Son Ltd 1971, second edition 1980)
K Butcher, Roman Provincial Coinage, an Introduction to the
Greek Imperials (B A Seaby Ltd 1988)
I Carradice, Greek Coins (British Museum Press 1995)
C Kraay, Archaic and Classical Greek Coins (Methuen 1976)
C Kraay, Greek Coins (Thames and Hudson 1966)
O Morkholm, Early Hellenistic Coinage (Cambridge University
Press 1991)
M Price, Coinage in the Greek World (B A Seaby Ltd 1988)
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Roman Coins
A Burnett, Coinage in the Roman World (B A Seaby Ltd 1987)
A Burnett, Roman Provincial Coinage.
Vol. 1: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44BC-AD
69)
(British Museum Press/Paris, 1992)
Vol. 2: From Vespasian to Domitian
(British Museum Press/Paris, 1999)
R A G Carson, Coins of the Roman Empire (Methuen 1990)
R A G Carson, Principal Coins of the Romans, 3 volumes (British
Museum Publications 1978, 1980, 1981)
P J Casey, Roman Coinage in Britain (Shire Archaeology 1984)
M H Crawford, Coinage and Money Under the Roman Republic
(Methuen 1985)
R Reece and S James, Identifying Roman Coins: a practical guide
to the site finds in Britain (B A Seaby Ltd 1986) ISBN
0-900652-79-9
R A G Carson, Late Roman Bronze Coinage (Spink & Son Ltd
1960, reprinted 1978)
M Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (Cambridge University Press
1974)
H Mattingly and R AG Carson, Coins of the Roman Empire in the
British Museum, volumes 1-6 (British Museum Trustees 1923-62)
H Mattingly et al., Roman Imperial Coinage, volumes 1-10 (Spink
& Son Ltd 1923-81)
D Sear, Roman Coins and their Values (B A Seaby Ltd 1988)
W Wroth, Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Lombards & co in
the British Museum (British Museum Trustees 1911)
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Modern Coins
F Draskovic and S Rubenfeld, Standard Price Guide to World
Crowns and Talers 1484-1968 as catalogued by Dr John S Davenport
(Krause Publications 1984)
R Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World (5th edition) (Coin &
Currency Institute 1976)
C L Krause and C Mischler, Standard Catalogue of World Coins
1701-1990 (vols 1-2)(Krause Publications 1991) (annual, normally
covering 1801-year of issue)
G Schon, World Coin Catalogue (B A Seaby Ltd 195)
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Jetons, counters, etc
F P Barnard, The Casting Counter and the Counting Board
(Claredon Press 1916)
G Berry, Medieval English Jetons (Spink & Sons Ltd 1974)
M Mitchiner, Jetons, Medals and Tokens
I The Medieval Period and Nuremberg (B A Seaby Ltd 1988)
II The Low Countries and France (B A Seaby Ltd 1991)
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Tokens
G Berry, Seventeenth Century England Traders and their Tokens (B
A Seaby Ltd 1988)
R Dalton and S H Hammer, The Provincial Token Coinage of the
Eighteenth Century (London 1910-18, reprinted B A Seaby Ltd
1967)
W J Davis, The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage (London 1904,
reprinted B A Seaby Ltd 1969)
W J Davis and A W Waters, Tickets and Passes of Great Britain
and Ireland (Leamington Spa 1922)
M Dickinson, Seventeenth Century Tokens of the British Isles and
their values (B A Seaby Ltd 1986)
D J Rogers, Coins de S Toy (Galata Press, Wolverhampton 1990)
P Seaby, British Tokens and their Values (B A Seaby 1986)
G C Williamson, Boyne's Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth
Century in England, Wales and Ireland (London 1889-91, reprinted B
A Seaby Ltd 1967)
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Medals
G F Hill, and G Pollard, Medals of the Renaissance (British
Museum Publications 1978)
L S Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medalists volumes 1-8
(Spink & Son Ltd 1904-30, reprinted A H Baldwin Ltd c. 1980,
index volume Royal Numismatic Society - British Art Medal Society
1987)
M Jones, The Art of the Medal (British Museum Publications
1979)
M Jones, Contemporary British Medals (1986) Paper Money
V Hewitt and J Keyworth, As Good As Gold (British Museum
Publications 1987)
Detailed Catalogues of Specific Series of Coins, Medals and
Paper Money
L Brown, British Historical Medals 1760-1960 Vol 1 (B A Seaby
Ltd 1980) ISBN 0-900652-56-X Vol 2 (B A Seaby Ltd 1987)
C Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values (B A
Seaby Ltd 1987)
D Fearon, Victorian Souvenir Medals (Shire Albums no.182) (Shire
Publications Ltd 1986)
E Hawkins, Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great
Britain and Ireland, to the Death of King George II (British Museum
Trustees 1885)
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Paper Money
J Douglas, Scottish Banknotes (Stanley Gibbons 1975)
V Duggleby, English Paper Money (4th Edition) (Spink & Son
Ltd 1990)
G L Grant, The Standard Catalogue of Provincial Banks and
Banknotes (Spink & Son Ltd 1977)
A Pick, Standard Catalogue of World Paper Money (6th Edition)
(Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin 1990)
C F Schwann and J E Boling, World War II Military Currency (BNR
Press, Ohio 1978)
Children's Books on Coins and Paper Money
A Briers, True Stories about Roman Coins, True Stories about
Greek Coins, True Stories about Money (Ashmolean Museum 1987)
J Cribb and T Francis, The Money Fun Book (British Museum
Publications 1986)
J Cribb, Eyewitness Guides: Money (Dorling Kindersley &
British Museum 1990)
J Orna-Ornstein, The Story of Money
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