HELVETICA'S IDENTIFICATION HELP PAGE
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| Roman, Byzantine, Provincial and Greek coins | Wildwinds.com . The best! If you use the website a lot, make a donation, as Wildwinds requires a tremendous amount of work and the traffic and server space costs a fortune. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ANS database search | American Numism. Society database search | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aurelian and Telesphorus coins | Tom Ross's website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Byzantines | Byzantine Bronzes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Celtic Coins | The Celtic Coins Index | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cohen Online | Online version of Cohen (like the French version of RIC)
| Countermarks | Andreas Pangerls excellent Countermarks Identifier | Constantine I coins | Worth a visit | Diadumenian | Diadumenian Website | Emperor list |
Dirty Old Coins | Fel Temp hut coins | Bill Welch's website | Forvm Ancient Coins | Discussion board A wonderful, friendly resource for collectors, experienced and beginners alike. | Forvm Ancient Coins | Forvm Main page Search engine for partial legends / inscriptions and loads of coins, cleaned and uncleaned, for sale at prices for every budget! | Gallienus, Valerian and family | The Gallienus centre | Gallienus |
Another great Gallienus Page | Greek coins of Asia Minor | Use Ancient Coins' Asiaminorcoins.com | Greek Coins |
Search the The Fitzwilliam Museum for a Coin | Greek Coins of Italy and Sicily |
Database search for Greek coin types of Italy and Sicily | Greek inscriptions | Use Ancient Coins' Greek Legend Identifier | Historia Numorum |
Snible - Historia Numorum | Islamic, Indian and Oriental Coins |
Zeno Russia (the website is sometimes slow) | Judaea |
Coins of Judaea | Not in RIC |
NOT IN RIC | Probus coins | The Probvs Website | Probus coins | The Probvs Website2 (backup server? !) | RIC IX (Valentinius, Theodosius, Arcadius, Gratian, Valens, Eugenius, Honorius etc) | Westy's great RIC IX website with examples of most coins of Theodosius, Arcadius, Honorius, Gratian etc. which are in several of my RIC lists | Roman Provincial coins | try Wildwinds (above) and also Moushmov Online | RPC Coin Database |
Antonine Emperors only | Seleukid, Persian and Islamic Coins |
Tom Mallon's website | Monograms | Roman monograms on coins | Seleukids 2 |
Seleukids 2 | SNG UK |
SNG 2 | SNG 2 |
Search page of the Fitzwilliam Museum in England | |
OTHER LINKS | |
| Archive.org | Loads of numismatic books including Mionnet, BMC Greece etc. for download. Use search terms such as Coins, Coinage, Roman Imperial, Greek Coins etc. Or enter the name of an author. Lots of German and French language numismatic literature here too including AMNG vols I and III. |
| List of Numismatic Books to download as PDFs | A huge list of downloadable numismatic books and articles for free download |
| For students and kids: Ancient history "experimental archaeology" digs | History For Students |
| An interesting website in French | Frederic Weber's website with lots of interesting stuff and images, including a collection of incredible close ups of images on Roman coins |
| And Frederic's pages in English | Frederic Weber's English website with lots of interesting stuff and images, including a collection of incredible close ups of images on Roman coins |
| Numerous useful links in English and Italian | Monete Romane |
| Direct link to | Gringgotts Coin Cleaner and Info about bronze disease. |
| Special Gringotts coin non-toxic cleaning powder (just boil and cool!), special Dremel attachments, diamond dusted dental picks and more: | Noble Roman Coins USA |
| Coinshub | Coinshub dot com. Links to everything about coins, ancient and modern. |
| Try Galata Coins in Wales/UK. A huge selection of books, including LRBC, Sear, RICs etc at very affordable prices. He has some lovely coins too ! Galata coins does not accept Paypal etc. but you can ask them which form of payment they prefer. Have a look at Galata Coins Ltd, Wales UK |
| Probus | Probus coins in RIC order CURRENTLY OFFLINE |
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