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This category is about collecting coins (numismatics) which are from Ancient civilizations. Ancient is usually defined as prior to the fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD). Included in this category is information about the acquisition, display, identification, and conservation of coins.

Subcategories

• Byzantine
• Celtic
• Greek
• Indian
• Medieval
• Oriental
• Parthian
• Roman
• Sassanian

Resources in This Category

• A Survey of Ancient Coins

  http://www.guberman.blogspot.com/
  A helter skelter listing of a collection of interesting, educational and in some cases nearly unique coins, where nothing is for sale.

• Aeqvitas Ancient Coins

  http://www.aeqvitas.com/
  Pictures of Roman, Greek and other ancient world coins.

• Ancient Coin Collectors Guild

  http://www.accg.us/
  A non-profit organization committed to promoting the free and independent collecting of coins from antiquity. The goal of this guild is to insure collectors can legally acquire and hold any numismatic item of historical interest regardless of date or place of origin.

• Ancient Coins

  http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/
  An educational site by Dr. Tom Buggey. Coins of Rome, Greece, and other cultures are featured along with many resources for attributing. Maps of ancient Greece and Rome, mints, essays, and other illustrations are featured.

• Ancient Roman Coin

  http://www.ancient-roman-coin.com/
  Identify your ancient Roman Republic coins and your ancient Roman Imperial coins by Emperor, history period, metal or type of coin.

• Asia Minor Coins

  http://asiaminorcoins.com/
  An online index of ancient Greek and Roman coins from Asia Minor.

• Bearers of Meaning

  http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/art/buerger/
  The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at the Wriston Art Center Galleries, Lawrence University. Includes, history, images and a glossary.

• Beast Coins

  http://www.beastcoins.com/
  On-line collection of ancient and world coins, specializing in animal and architecture topics.

• Brad's Introduction to Ancient Coins

  http://myplace.frontier.com/~brads98/coins.html
  An introduction to ancient coins for those who know little about this area of coin collecting.

• Cilician Armenian Coins

  http://www.paroiancollection.com/Home_Page.html
  A collection of coins struck by the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia

• CoinArchives.com

  http://www.coinarchives.com/
  An searchable archive of ancient coins featured in major numismatic auctions. Includes text, images, and prices realized from many auction catalogs.

• Coins of Ancient Miletos

  http://rjohara.net/coins/
  An introduction to the bronze, silver, and electrum coins of the ancient Greek city of Miletos (Miletus) in Ionia.

• Coins of Moldavia and Wallachia

  http://romaniancoins.ancients.info/
  A survey into some private collections and a database of Romanian medieval coins in net auctions. Images and information. [English and Romanian]

• David R. Sear

  http://www.davidrsear.com/
  Dedicated to ancient numismatics - Greek, Roman and Byzantine. Browse through books on ancient coins, read about the Ancient Coin Certification Service, and read ancient numismatic and historic articles at the Academy.

• Digital Historia Numorum Project

  http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/
  Greek and Roman Provincial coin reference. Historical and numismatic information.

• Examples of Fakes

  http://www.chijanofuji.com/online_liquidators.html
  Provides photographs and descriptions of fake coins offered for online sale.

• Fitzwilliam Museum: Coins and Medals

  http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/
  Interesting exhibitions covering Roman and other ancient coins.

• Indian Coins

  http://www.indiancoins.8m.com/
  Coins of ancient, medieval and Islamic India with a little history.

• Ken's Steiglitz

  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/numismatics.html
  Unpublished, rare, unusual, or unattributed ancient coins with images.

• NumisWiki

  http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp
  This is a collaborative numismatics project. It is a wiki format site with over 4,400 Pages of classical numismatics reference material.

• Polymathematica

  http://www.q-ten.net/polymath/
  Multidiscipline site about science with good information about cleaning ancient coins.

• St Andrews Database Index of Coins

  http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/projects/scbi/index.html
  The electronic index of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, a series published for the British Academy by the Oxford University Press 1958-.

• The Paroian Collection

  http://www.paroiancollection.com/
  The site contains specimens and details of coins which were issued during the period of the Cilician Armenia Kingdom.

• Wildwinds

  http://wildwinds.com/coins/
  Archive with search function that lists Roman coins by Emperor or by Sear number, Greek coins by Sears number or city and Byzantine coins by Sears number and Ruler.

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