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Cover of Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics
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Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics

Regions All Greek world
Periods ArchaicClassicalHellenisticRoman Provincial
Topics typesmintsmetrologyiconography

Head’s Historia Numorum (first edition, 1887) is the standard single-volume reference for Greek numismatics, covering all mints alphabetically with types, metrology, and dates. Abbreviated HN in all subsequent scholarship. The enlarged second edition appeared in 1911.

Public domain — published 1887.