Numismatics

Online Resources

Books

  • Christiansen, Erik. The Roman Coins of Alexandria: Quantitative Studies; Nero, Trajan, Septimius Severus. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1988.
  • Christiansen, Erik. Coinage in Roman Egypt: The Hoard Evidence. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2004.
  • Metcalf, William E., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Rowan, Clare. Under Divine Auspices: Divine Ideology and the Visualisation of Imperial Power in the Severan Period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Thonemann, Peter. The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources. Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World; Variation: Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Ptolemaic Egypt

  • de Callataÿ, François. “L’instauration par Ptolémée Ier Sôter d’une économie monétaire fermée.” In L’exception égyptienne? production et échanges monétaires en Egypte hellénistique et romaine, edited by Frédérique Duyrat and Olivier Picard, 117–34. Etudes alexandrines 10. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2005.
  • Faucher, Thomas, ed. Money Rules!: The Monetary Economy of Egypt, from Persians until the Beginning of Islam. Bibliotheque d’etude 176. Cairo: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 2020.
  • Faucher, Thomas, and Catharine Lorber. “Bronze Coinage of Ptolemaic Egypt in the Second Century BC.” American Journal of Numismatics 22 (2010): 35–80.
  • Faucher, Thomas, Andrew Meadows, and Catharine Lorber, eds. Egyptian Hoards I: The Ptolemies. Bibliothèque d’Etude 168. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 2017.
  • Lorber, Catharine. “The Coinage of the Ptolemies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, edited by William E. Metcalf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • Meadows, Andrew. “Coin Circulation and Coin Production at Thonis-Heracleion and in the Delta Region in the Late Period.” In Thonis-Heracleion in Context, edited by Damian Robinson and Franck Goddio, 121–35. Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, Monograph 8. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, 2015.
  • Olivier, Julien, and Catharine Lorber. “Three Gold Coinages of Third-Century Ptolemaic Egypt.” Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 159 (2013): 49–150.
  • Picard, Olivier, Cécile Bresc, Thomas Faucher, Gilles Gorre, Marie-Christine Marcellesi, and Cécile Morrisson. Les monnaies des fouilles du Centre d’études alexandrines: les monnayages de bronze à Alexandrie de la conquête d’Alexandre à l’Egypte moderne. Etudes alexandrines 25. Paris: Centre d’études alexandrines, 2012.

4th-Century BCE Egypt

  • Nicolet-Pierre, Hélène. “Les imitations égyptiennes des tétradrachmes athéniens d’époque classique (Ve–IVe s. av. J.-C.).” Arkhaiologike ephemeris 142 (2003): 139–54
  • Meadows, Andrew. “Athenian Coin Dies from Egypt: The New Discovery at Herakleion.” Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie 157 (2011): 95–116.
  • van Alfen, Peter G. “The ‘Owls’ from the 1989 Syria Hoard, with a Review of Pre-Macedonian Coinage in Egypt.” American Journal of Numismatics 14 (2002): 1–57.
  • van Alfen, Peter G. “Two Unpublished Hoards and Other Owls from Egypt.” American Journal of Numismatics 14 (2002): 59–71.