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Ancient Artifacts VCoins website - a website of ancient coins and artifacts for sale by Ancient Artifacts and Treasures

Bargain Bin Ancients - a website of Bargain ancient coins all under $30.

Cleaning Ancient Coins - A very good site for young people and beginners by the National Museum of Wales that explains how to properly and not properly clean coins.

Counterfeit Coins - a series of websites dealing with ancient counterfeit coins and how to recognize them.

 

 

 

Forgery Network - A nice site for all kinds of forgeries.

Fakes and Forgeries - A very good site by Twelve Caesars Coin Company dealing with ancient coins, including a section with the forgeries by Slavey.

 

Ancient Times Newsletter - An article written by Kevin Barry dealing with Counterfeits and Counterfeiters.

 

Jencek's List of Modern Forgeries - A webpage of pictures of modern forgeries of ancient coins put together by John Jencek.

 

ANCIENT COINS & MODERN FAKES: How To Tell The Difference. An Authentication Primer - Useful information for those considering purchasing coins. By Dennis J. Kroh.

Obverse Dies from the Black Sea Hoard - Pictures of strikes from the known obverse dies from the black sea hoard forgeries.

Barry & Darling's Gallery of Modern Replicas

Calgary's Fakes, Forgeries, and Counterfeits

CGB/CGF Gallery of Fakes

Doug Smith's Fakes

Jencek's Modern Forgeries of Ancient Coins

Reid Goldsborough's Two Ancient Greek Dekadrachms, Fake and Real

Slavey Replica Pics

Warren Esty's Ancient Imitations of Roman Coins

Warren Esty's Greek Fourres

De Imperatoribus Romanis On the Roman Emperors. This is a web site which is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453).

Eight Hundred Years of Roman Coinage, by David R. Sear.

An excellent article by an well known expert.

American Numismatic Society and Harry Bass Research Foundation Searchable Resources - A searchable index of Roman coins. Extensive.

Roman Coins of the Early Empire, by Tim Ryan.

This is a great page from his well-known Dead Romans site.

 

 

The Coinage of Britain - Roman Coins - a very good site covering the Roman coinage and history of Britain

 

Mint Marks from the Age of Constantine - how to identify where the coins were made (minted)

 

 

 

The coins of Macedonia from the 6th cent. B.C. to 148 B.C. - Hellenistic Minister of Culture

 

Bearers of Meaning - The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University. Carol L. Lawton, Curator and Editor. An excellent site with good images and full information about coins and their historical context. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine coins are included.

 

The Production of Ancient Coins, by Jere M. Wickens

Roman Coins and Roman History, by Daniel J. Taylor

Early Islamic Coins - James N. Roberts

 

India: A webpage for the Ancient Coins and Medieval Coins of India - Dr. Nupam Mahajan

 

 

Doug Smith's Ancient Greek & Roman Coins Numismatic Topics from One Collector's Point of View - Perhaps the most informative site dedicated to Roman and Greek coins, constructed by a dedicated collector. There are too many useful links to connect all of them here. You'll have to visit the site and see them for yourself.

Two important pages for students working with coins from the empire and especially the time of Constantine are:

Roman Imperial Coin Denominations

Common Constantinian Copper

 

 

 

 

The Celtic Coin Index - The Celtic Coin Index is a collection of more than 30800 images of Celtic coins found in Britain.

 

 

 

The Coin Producing Tribes of Celtic Britian - A page from Bill Blank's fantastic Kernunnos site

 

 

 

Celtic Numismatics - Bill Blank's fantastic Kernunnos site

 

 

 

Perspectives in Numismatics - Medieval European Coinage - A nice site discussing medieval coinage by John F. Lhotka.

 

 

 

Jetons: Their Use and History - A very good paper on Jetons, their use amd history by BERT VAN BEEK.

 

 

 

The Anatomy of an Attribution - how to identify coins using print resources

 

 

 

History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day - Online version of a book by Glyn Davies.

 

 

 

The Celator The world's premier journal for ancient coin collectors.

Other Links pages

Attribution Sources

Wildwinds Database - An excellent resouce to help attribute coins. It has pictures and internet auction listing information on many Roman coins, listed by emperor or by Sear number.

SNG - the online SNG catalogs

ANS - the American Numismatic Society database, but there are very few images

Ancient Coin Forum legend search engine - for partial legends

John Jencek legend search engine - for legends

Identifying Common Late Roman Bronze Coins - For identifying Constantine and his sons and later

Links to other Major Ancient Coin Attribution Sites

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