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Classics and Ancient History

BSA Graduate Course in Greek Numismatics

Please find below resources relevant to the 2025 BSA Graduate course in Greek numismatics.

Finalised programme as of 5 March 2025.

Powerpoints and other resources will be uploaded onto this site during the course.
Powerpoints
Numismatic Orientation
Money before coinage
Why strike coinage
The beginnings of coinage in Asia Minor
Athens
Bronze coinage
Die studies and quantification
From Nestos to Hebros. Handout. Handout 2
Macedonian Kings. Handout
Chalcidic Peninsula. Handout
Psoma bibliography
Parian colonies
Coinages of Aegina and Corinth
Southern Italy and Sicily
Signing Artists
Overstrikes and countermarks
Metal analysis
Kremydi Site finds bibliography. Kremydi ppt.
Hellenistic coinage
The Ptolemies
Coin hoards. IGCH exercise
Rome and Greek coinage
Provincial coinage
Greek coinage in perspective
Relevant Readings for the Laurium Trip
Souriza site guide

Atene review by Osborne

Fortified military camps (chapters on the coin finds in Koroni, Patroklos and Atene)

Kakoyavannis workshops

Lead silver Laurion

Mining Money Late Archaic Athens

The Thorikos archaeological research project

Some remarks on recent evidence (Laurion)

Bibliography

Relevant readings for the Athenian Agora

The Athenian Agora: A Short Guide

An Ancient Shopping Centre Picture Guide Book

Life Death and Litigation in the Athenian Agora

Greek and Roman Coins in the Athenian Agora

Athenian citizen picture guide

Athenian Agora: The Greek Coins