Catalogue of the Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum. Volume 1 12+

🔖 Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "Printed by order of the Trustees", 1908 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг.The present Catalogue describes in two volumes (paged continuously) the coinage of the later Roman or Byzantine Empire from the accession of Anastasius I in A.D. 491 to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. With the exception of some of the specimens arranged under the headings of ‘Italian’ and ‘Provincial’ coinages, the coins here catalogued are those that are believed to have been issued by Imperial authority at Constantinople and the other mint-places of the Empire. The coinages of the so-called ‘Empires’ of Nicaea, Thessalonica and Trebizond, as well as those of the Vandals, Goths, and Lombards, which have often been confused with the true Imperial coinages, are reserved for treatment in a subsequent volume.The size of the coins is given in inches and tenths, and the weight in English Troy grains. Tables for converting grains into grammes and inches into millimetres, as well as into the measures of Mionnet’s scale, are placed at the end of the second volume. Two lists of Emperors, one a brief alphabetical list, the other chronological and more detailed, will be found at the end of the Indexes.The w...