Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Volume XII, The Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow: Part II, Roman and Provincial Coins: Cyprus-Egypt

This catalogue completes the publication of the great eighteenth-century collection of William Hunter in Glasgow University, an important stage in the British SNG project. It illustrates the remaining 2581 Roman provincial coins produced in the East from Cyprus to Egypt, about half of which were produced at Alexandria.

For over three hundred years the Roman Empire had no uniform standardized 'Euro'. In addition to the Roman Imperial coins, hundreds of provincial cities stamped symbols of ...