Reviews and Commentary, regularly updated since 2004

Catalogues: Crawford RRC, Grueber BMCRR, Sear Handbooks and HCRI Updates to Crawford RRC Coinage & Money CMRR, Sydenham, HN Italy, Thomsen ERC, RPC Provincial Introductory Handbooks and Glossy Picture Books about RR coinage Books about the relation between Coins and Roman Republican History Antiquarian books about Roman Republican Coins and History History books about the Roman Republicy The Best Auction Catalogues and Museum Catalogues Books on Coins and Archaeology Books on the Coin Minting Process and Mint Management Articles on Plated Coins, including MH Crawford's 'Plated Coins - False Coins' Period-specific - 3rd century BC, Early Roman Coinage Period-specific - 2nd century and early 1st century BC Period-specific - Imperatorial coins, Woytek's 'Arma et Nummi' and redating Woytek Survey Numismatic Research 2002-2007; Int'l Numismatic Congress Crawford Surveys Numismatic Research 1966-1977; Edinburgh collection notes Bibliographies, books about books, Numismatic History Free numismatic books online, Digital Library Numis Journals: Celater, Numismatic Chronicle, American Numismatic Society Books on Roman Provincial Coins and Imitative Coins Books about Roman Republican Bronze Coins, 215BC to 150BC

Direct link to Reviews of Better Known Books, Alphabetical by Author

• AIIN29 Annali 29 Istituto Italiano di Numismatica 1983
• d'Ailly Recherches sur la Monnaie Romaine
• American Numismatic Society, ANS MN and AJN
• Babelon La République Romaine
• Benz collection: Roman Republican Coins, Lanz 88
• Burnett Amandry Ripolles RPC1: Roman Provincial Coinage I. From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius
• Catalli La Monetazione Romana Repubblicana
• Celator
• Crawford CMRR: Coins and Money under the Roman Republic
• Crawford RRC: Roman Republican Coinage
• Goodman collection of Roman Republican bronzes, CNG43 to CNG47
• Grant FITA: From Imperium to Auctoritas
• Grueber BMCRR: Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum
• Haeberlin Aes Grave
• Hersh Coins of Macedonia and Rome: Essays in Honour of Charles Hersh
• Hannover The Coins of the Roman Republic in the Kestner Hannover Museum
• Kent Roman Coins
• Mattingly From Coins to History: Harold B Mattingly, Selected Numismatic Studies
• Nicolas collection: Silbermünzen der RömischenRepublik, Leu 17
• Numis Digital Library, downloads on Republican numismatics
• Numismatic Chronicle
• RBW collection, NAC61 and NAC63
• Russo collection: Numismatic Fine Arts NFA XXVII
• Rutter HNI: Historia Numorum, Italy
• Sayles Handbooks
• Sear HCRI: The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators
• Sear RCV1: Roman Coins and their Values
• Seaby RSC1: Roman Silver Coins, Volume 1 - Republic to Augustus
• Surveys of Numismatic Research
• Sydenham Coinage of the Roman Republic
• Thomsen Early Roman Coinage
• Woytek Arma et nummi

Original Material, written for this website, or adapted and republished from earlier publications

M.H. Crawford, Notes on Roman Republican coin types, Edinburgh coll. The First Punic War and the Corvus on Roman Republican Bronzes Fleet Coinage of Mark Antony, with Atratinus, Capito and Bibulus Plated Coins - False Coins by M.H. Crawford and related articles Campania: Art, Architecture and Coins Early Money under the Kings of Rome Triage for Coins: Reading Hoards and Coin Accumulations Paean to a Coin Collector: BCD Arrangements of Early Roman Coinage Grueber’s footnotes: ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ and Scarpus Postsemilibral bronzes and the date of the Denarius Michael Crawford, notes to the Edinburgh collection. New Roman Republican coins published by the Goodman collection Aemilii Lepidi and Adoptions, Mark Passehl On the Concept of Rarity, and the Rarest Roman Republican Coins Mesagne hoard and its dating implications Morgantina, the Coins, T.V. Buttrey The Upchurch Hoard The Pietas Denarii of Sextus Pompey, T.V. Buttrey Al Marco adjustment of denarius weights, Clive Stannard Quintus Cornuficius, Phil Davis Dacian Imitations, Phil Davis Lampsacus and Parium, a tale of twin cities Roman Coins of Luceria L, RRC 43 Roman Coins of Luceria L, RRC 97 Roman Coins of Luceria LT, RRC 98 Roman Coins of Luceria P, RRC 99 Roman Coins of Canusium CA, RRC 100 Anonymous Struck Bronze Coins of the Roman Republic Anonymous Roman Republican Denarii and Victoriati (Steve Brinkman's site)

• Bronze Bars and Rudera Money in Early Rome
  
• Aes Grave and Didrachms Catalogues: Crawford Grueber Sear
  
• The Denarius: Second Punic War Sydenham Thomsen HNI RPC CMRR
  
• the Scipios Handbooks
  
• the Gracchi Coins and History
  
• Marius and Sulla Auction Catalogues
  
• Cicero Crassus Pompey Hoards and Archaeology
  
• Caesar and Pompey Minting and Money
  
• Plated Coins False Coins
  
• Brutus and Cassius Period-specific studies
  
• Second Triumvirate Current Numismatic Research
  
• Numismatic Research Surveys 1966-1977
  
• Antony and Octavian Sources for Numismatics
  
• Italian City Coinages Campania: Art and Coins
  
• Provincial and Imitative Provincial and Imitative
  
• Roman Coins of Luceria and Canusium, Luceria L, RRC 43
  
• Roman Coins of Luceria and Canusium, Luceria L, RRC 97
  
• Roman Coins of Luceria and Canusium, Luceria LT, RRC 98
  
• Roman Coins of Luceria and Canusium, Luceria P, RRC 99
  
• Roman Coins of Luceria and Canusium, Canusium CA, RRC 100
  
• Anonymous Struck Bronze Coins of the Roman Republic
  
• The First Punic War and the Corvus on Roman Republican Bronzes, Antonio Morello
  
• Anonymous Roman Republican Denarii and Victoriati (Steve Brinkman's site)
  
• Books about Roman Republican Bronze Coins, 215BC to 150BC
  
• Principal Coins of the Roman Republic, Ahala Collection (1st page of 20 pages)
  
  

  January 2013 - New home page structure, and Crawford RRC-based illustrated catalogue.

  This new home page is the most significant update since 2009, and addresses two major improvements, in the structure, indexing and navigation aids of my home page, and in introducing a Crawford RRC-based illustrated catalogue of Roman Republican coins, directly on this website rather than accessed via my photo database on Flickr.

  First, the home page index system has been redesigned around the different forms of content on the site, coins, book reviews and articles, regardless where this content is stored on the various web-pages of the site. Hence if you are seeking a book review or information about numismatic books on a given topic, these can be found by scrolling down to the book review section of this home page or by clicking on this button:

  From time to time I have added specialist articles in various places on my website, usually associated with the theme of a particular web-page. Sometimes these articles have been difficult to find at a later time. So I have listed all these articles on the home page, and they can be found by scrolling down to the specialist article section of this home page or by clicking on this button:

  At regular intervals since 2009 I have also written short personal commentaries on the home page, in the form of a blog posting that I updated every few months, and the text I am currently writing is typical of such postings. Over time these have caused the home page to extend more and more in length. So I have now moved these older postings to a dedicated commentaries web-page. I will continue to write the most recent postings direct on my home page but all older posts can be found on the blog page, also available by clicking on this button:

  Whilst the content of my existing web-pages remains unchanged, I am retiring the historic index system which arranged my web-pages according to themes. The theme-based pages became, over time, too complex. However I have replaced these with a full listing of my current webpages, with a brief indication of their content, at the bottom of my home page (i.e. just above this commentary section). I also include direct links to my Flickr photo-sets on this page and on every other web-page on my site.

  Second, there is a new presentation of coins of the Roman Republic, arranged strictly by Crawford RRC number, with photos shown to the correct relative scale and with my commentary. This new presentation can be found at the top of this home page broken into 20 sections arranged by RRC number. Each page within this new presentation includes the index to all other sections of the catalogue. A key feature of this presentation is that all the photographs were taken against the same size background, so it is easily seen that all coins are exactly to scale. The first page covers Early Roman Coinage and the last, twentieth page covers the Battle of Actium and its coinage, with the history of Roman coinage unfolding between the two sections. The photos are shown in large dimensions, as per examples below, and the click-throughs lead to enlargements double this size. So these new web-pages will make the most of your fast broadband and high-density pixel displays!

  
  
  

  Andrew McCabe, January 2013.

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