Anyone interested in FREE Ancient Numismatic Books?

[Danny S. Jones]

I've got over 150 books on the subject of Ancient Coins in PDF format, all of which are in the public domain (out of print or expired copyright). Of these books are many of the British Museum Catalogs. All have been scanned from old library editions by various sources like Microsoft of the Google book project. All together, I have around two gigabytes of numismatic resources. Would anyone be interested in these, and would Forvm be willing to host the files? Maybe on NumisWiki? This is a vast library of information that is not readily available to the average collector, and could be made available for free - so collectors of ancient coins can spend their money on coins rather than the thousands of dollars it would take to compile a reference collection of this magnitude. There are no current books. Most are over 100 years old, but still of great value to the collector of items that are thousands of years old. Please let me know if anyone is interested (and Forvm is willing) and I'll be happy to upload the files to this site. Thanks!!

[Noah]

doobie, this is a quote directly from the "Administration Announcements" link.  It is under the thread for "Work For FORVM Get Paid in Denarii" and might be of significant interest to you.

"If you have a copy of an ancient coin reference printed before 1924 it is now out of copyright protection.  We will pay for a scanned copy.  Depending on the quality of the reference and the scan, we may pay up to $1000 FORVM dollars."

Best, Noah

[Bartosz A]

I think that a lot of FORVM members are interested in older numismatic literature and will be happy to may get if free in PDF. Contact the FORVM staff as Noah suggested.
I am waiting for your books...

Best regards,
Bartosz

[Tom Mullally]

Could you provide us with a list?  Many have already been archived in previous FORVM posts.

Tom

[Danny S. Jones]

Great! I'll compile a list and post it here later today.

[Danny S. Jones]

Here is a list I compiled today of the books available in PDF format. They are all public domain. I hope to start posting  them soon.

Let me know which ones you may be interested in an I'll start posting those first.


BMC : Books and catalogs of the British Museum

Catalog of Chinese Coins in the British Museum - VIIth Cen. BC to AD 621

Catalog of Coins in the British Museum -  Parthia

Catalog of Coins in the British Museum - Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and India

Catalog of Coins in the British Museum - Vandals Ostrogoths and Lombards

Catalog of Coins in the British Museum - Western Ksatrapas Traikutaka Bodhi Andhra Dynasty 

Catalog of English Coins in the British Museum - Anglo-Saxon Vol 1

Catalog of English Coins in the British Museum - Anglo-Saxon Vol 2

Catalog of English Coins in the British Museum - The Norman Kings Vol I 

Catalog of English Coins in the British Museum - The Norman Kings Vol II

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Alexandria and the Nomes 

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Central Greece

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Corinth and Colonies

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Crete and the Aegean Islands

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Ionia

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Macedonia

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Phrygia

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Tauric Chersonese Sarmatia Dacia Moesia Thrace

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - The Ptolemies

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Thessaly to Aetolia

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Troas Aeolis and Lesbos

Catalog of Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum - Vol I

Catalog of Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum - Vol II

Catalog of Indian Coins in the British Museum - Moghul emperors of Hindustan

Catalog of Indian Coins in the British Museum - Sultans of Dehli

Catalog of Oriental Coins in the British Museum - Turks

Handbook of Coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum

Roman medallions in the British Museum

Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum - Coins and Medals

Coins and Medals Their Place and History and Art - BMC



British and Celtic Coin Books:

Account of Some Rare and Unplublished Ancient British Coins - Evans

Celt Icinscriptions on Gaulish and British Coins - Poste

Celtic Britain with Woodcuts of Coins - Rhys

Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire - Atkins

Coins of the Ancient Britons - Evans

Coins of the Danish Kings of Ireland

Coins of the Romans relating to Britain

Compilation of English Silver Coins - Henry

Description of the Anglo-Gallic Coins in the British Museum

Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin

Essay on the Roman denarius and English Silver Penny - Till

Gold Coins of England - Kenyon

Guide to the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland with their Values

Guide to the Collection of Irish Antiquities - Anglo Irish Coins

Guide to the Study and Arrangement of English Coins - Henfrey

Handbook of English Coins from Norman Conquest to Present

Kent's Valuation of British Coins and Tokens - 1918

Numismata Cromwelliana

Series of English Coins in Copper Tin and Bronze - Henry

Table of English Silver Coins - Folkes

Silver Coins of England - Hawkins

Vindication of Celtic Inscriptions on Gaulish and British Coins



Cohen Catalogs (be aware that these are in French)

Cohen Byzantine Coins Vol 1

Cohen Byzantine Coins Vol 2

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 1

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 2

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 3

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 4

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 5

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 6

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 7

Cohen Roman Coins Vol 8



Greek Coin Books:

Ancient Coins of Cities and Princes - Smith

Ancient Coins of Greek Cities and Kings - Millingen

Ancient Greek Coins Vol 1 - Benson

Catalog of Coins of the Achaean League - Clerk

Catalog of Greek Coins from the Cabinet of Clarence Bement

Catalog of Greek and Roman Coins in the Numismatic Collection of Yale College

Chronological Sequence of the Coins of Boeotia - Head

Chronological Sequence of the Coins of Ephesus - Head

Coins of Ancient Lycia - Fellows

Coins of Ancient Sicily - Hill

Earlist Coins of Greece - Gardner

Greek Coins and their Parent Cities

Historia numorum A Manual of Greek Numismatics

Historical Greek Coins - Hill

Numismata Graeca Greek Coin-types Classified for Immediate Identification

Montagu Collection of Coins - Greek Series I

Montagu Collection of Coins - Greek Series II

Numismata Hellenica - A Catalogue of Greek Coins

Samos and Samian Coins - Gardner

Sylloge of Ancient Unedited Coins of Greek Cities and Kings

Types of Greek Coins - Gardner

Weber Collection of Greek Coins - Vol I



Jewish and Biblical Coin Books:

Handy Guide to Jewish Coins - Rogers

Jewish Coins - Reinach

Jewish Lulab and Portal Coins - Graetz

The Coins of the Bible and its Money Terms - Snowden

 

Non-Classical Coin Books:

Catalog of Arabic Coins at Cairo

Chronicles Pathan Kings of Dehli with Coins Inscriptions and Antiquarian Remains

Coins of Ancient India - Cunningham

Coins of the Shahs of Persia - Poole

Numismata Orientalia - Coins of the Tuluni Dynasty

Sassanian Coins - Valentine

The ancient coinage of southern Arabia

The Coinage of Lydia and Persia (1877) - Head

The gold coinage of Asia before Alexander the Great

View of History & Coinage of Parthians (1852) - Lindsay



Roman Coin Books:

Antiquities of Rome - Kennett

Coins of the Twelve Caesars - Morris

Handbook of Roman Numismatics -  Madden

Historical Roman Coins - Hill

Italo Greek Coins of Southern Italy - Hands

Lectures on the coinage of the Greeks and Roman - Cardwell

Records of Roman History Exhibited on the Roman Coins - Vol I

Roman Coins Elementary Manual

Roman Coins  A manual of roman coins - Johnston



US Coin Books:

Catalog of Coins Token and Medals of the US Mint at Philadelphia 

Coins and Coinage of the US Mint Philadelphia

Early Coins of America - Crosby

Peterson's Complete US Coin Book - 1859



Misc. Books Related to Ancient Numismatics:

Classical Dictionary

Coinages of the World - Mathews

Dictionary of Numismatic Names

Essay on Ancient Coins  Medals  and Gems - Walsh

Essay on Medals - Pinkerton

Essay on the Means of Distinguishing Antique from Counterfeit Coins and Medals - Brockett

Guide to the Principle Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients - Head

Historical Results from Recen Discoveries in Afghanistan

Humphreys - The Coin Collectors Manual Part 1

Humphreys - The Coin Collectors Manual Part 2

Introduction to the Study of Ancient and Modern Coins - Akerman

Lecture on the Study of Ancient Coins in Connenction with History - Green

Numismatic Manual - Akerman

Numismatic Manual Or Guide to the Study of Greek Roman and English Coins - Akerman

Short History of Coins and Currency  - Avebury

Tables of Ancient Coins  Weights  and Measures

[Philoromaos]

The BM cataloges of Greek coins would be fantastic. Regards Adrian

[Danny S. Jones]

The BMC catalogs are probably the most useful of these reference books. Others are great reads and informational to ancient collectors in general. I'll post an update when I hear back from Joe.

- Danny

[Danny S. Jones]

I guess this thread should have been listed elsewhere. Could I get a moderator to move it to the proper forum?
Thanks!

[Danny S. Jones]

Topic moved. Thanks!

[Danny S. Jones]

Perusing through the Forvm boards, I just notice the online digital listings of the DIGITAL LIBRARY NUMIS which links to many, if not most of the books that I have listed here, as well as countless others that aren't listed here, which are downloadable from other websites. Therefore my request seems to be a moot point, unless the Forvm just would like to host these files so they can be accessible from one location. Up til now, I never saw or knew of this resource for ancient coin references. It's a great site - check it out:

http://members.ziggo.nl/tverspag/NUMIS/

Otherwise, if there is something in this list that you can't get, and want, let me know and I'll see if I can send it to you.


BTW - Joe, thanks for this great website and the plethora of information I have obtained here at Forvm.

[Danny S. Jones]

Here's an update:

Joe has agreed to host this information here on FORVM. I have just finished uploading 163 volumes (2.3 Gigabytes) of ancient numismatic reference material to the FORVM website. In the coming days, I will be adding the text files. My hope is that these reference works will be searchable as they are added to the Numiswiki site. As this is a massive undertaking, it will probably be a while before the books become available online.

[Gilgamesh]

No doubt your effort will be greatly appreciated by all of us. Thank you in advance.

[casata137ec]

Thanks for the work GA, I for one really appreciate it!

Chris

[Joe Sermarini]

I hope to make them more user friendly in the future but here is the start:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dannyjones/

[Danny S. Jones]

They're up and available for download! That's great! All these books are in PDF format. I'm working on the text files to the books right now and should have them uploaded today, after I get back from my classes. I'll have to grade some exams, but afterward I think I should have time to finish this project too.

Enjoy!

[Danny S. Jones]

Here are the links to the books available for download:

They are separated into nine categories. You can click on the category links below to go to the listing of books. From there, just right click on any file and click "save as" to save the PDF files to your computer.

British Museum Books and Catalogs
Celtic and British Coin Books
Cohen Reference Works
Early US Coinage References
General Ancient Numismatic Books
Greek Coin Books
Jewish and Biblical Coin Books
Oriental and Non-Classical Coin Books
Roman Coin Books


Or just go to this link:
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dannyjones/

- Danny

EDIT: See below... now available on Numiswiki

Click here to visit the Library of Ancient Coinage

[Danny S. Jones]

I've added a few more books to the list of available references on FORVM. In addition to the books already listed above, these titles are now available for download on this site:

1833 Classical Dictionary

Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Sicily

Catalog of Indian Coins in the British Museum - Muhammadan states of India

Catalogue of coins of the sháhs of Persia in the British museum

Catalogue of Oriential Coins in the British Museum - Mohammedan Dynasties

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Vol 1

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography Vol 2

Historic notices of towns in Greece, and in other countries, that have struck coins (1826

Silver Coins of England - Hawkins

The coin collector's manual - Humphreys Vol 1

The coin collector's manual - Humphreys Vol 2

Also the plain text files have been uploaded to their own folder, although these are OCR conversions that are full of computer garble. Their main use would be to provide a search function rather than as a substitute text for reading.

[Danny S. Jones]

You can now access all these reference materials at the Library of Ancient Coinage on Numiswiki in a much more user friendly way.
Click here to visit the Library of Ancient Coinage

If you'd like to contribute to the Library of Ancient Coinage project, visit the category pages of the Library and you can add descriptions or reviews of each available book.