The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 52, December 26, 2004, Article 8

GUIDE TO ATTRIBUTIONS USING SYLLOGE NUMMORUM GRAECORUM

  Reid Goldsborough writes: "I don't know if you've seen
  this yet, about the (often confusing) SNG books for 
  attributing ancient Greek coins."

  From the web page: "After Sear, the most commonly used
  attribution reference in the U.S. for ancient Greek 
  coins is SNG Cop. This stands for Sylloge Nummorum 
  Graecorum: The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, 
  Danish National Museum (in Copenhagen). SNG Cop. was 
  originally published as a 43-volume set from 1942 until
  1977 and has since been republished as an eight-volume 
  set. It's valued for its comprehensiveness -- among 
  other things, compared with Sear, it includes many more 
  Greek-era coin types and varieties of the same coin 
  type as well as Greek Imperial/Roman Provincial coin 
  types. What's more, compared with some other SNGs, it's
  in English, so it's nearly universally accessible.

  Many other SNGs exist as well and are used to attribute 
  coins, since far more coin types and varieties exist 
  than are documented even in SNG Cop."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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