The British Museum Catalogues of Coins was a series envisioned and initiated by Reginald Stuart Poole, Keeper of the Department of Money and Medals, at the British Museum, between 1870 and 1893. The aim was to produce a scholarly series of catalogues of the collection, based on the British Museum's collection and other collections. The series continued after his retirement, and continues to this day, with the collection increasingly being made available online.Mary Hinton, "Numismatic Publications of the British Museum", in Barrie Cook (ed.) The British Museum and the Future of UK Numismatics: Proceedings of a conference held to mark the 150th anniversary of the British Museum's Department of Coins and Medals, 2011 (British Museum Research Publication 183, 2011) pp.87-90.
Series: Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum The series editor was Reginald Stuart Poole, and the authors/editors were Percy Gardner, Barclay Vincent Head, and Warwick Wroth. Vol. 1: Italy - R.S. Poole (1873) Vol. 2: Sicily – P. Gardner, B.V. Head, and R.S. Poole (1876) Vol. 3: The Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c. – P. Gardner and B.V. Head (1877) Vol. 4: The Seleucid Kings of Syria – P. Gardner (1878) Vol. 5: Macedonia, etc. – B.V. Head (1879) Vol. 6: Thessaly to Aetolia – P. Gardner (1883) Vol. 7: The Ptolemies, kings of Egypt – R.S. Poole (1883) Vol. 8: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia, and Euboea) – B.V. Head (1884) Vol. 9: Crete and the Aegean Islands – W. Wroth (1886) Vol. 10: Peloponnesus (excluding Corinth) – P. Gardner (1887) Vol. 11: Attica-Megaris-Aegina – B.V. Head (1888) Vol. 12: Corinth, colonies of Corinth, etc. - B.V. Head (1889) Vol. 13: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus - W. Wroth (1889) Vol. 14: Ionia - B.V. Head (1892) Vol. 15: Of Alexandria and the nomes - R.S. Poole (1892) Vol. 16: Mysia - W. Wroth (1894) Vol. 17: Troas, Aeolis, and Lesbos - W. Wroth (1894) Vol. 18: Caria, Cos, Rhodes &c. - B.V. Head (1897) Vol. 19: Lycia, Pamphylia, and Pisidia - G.F. Hill (1897) Vol. 20: Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria - W. Wroth (1898) Vol. 21: Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia - G.F. Hill (1900) Vol. 22: Lydia - B.V. Head (1901) Vol. 23: Cyprus - G.F. Hill (1904) Vol. 24: Phrygia - B.V. Head (1906) Vol. 25: Phoenicia - G.F. Hill (1910) Vol. 26: Palestine (Galilee, Samaria, and Judaea) - G.F. Hill (1914) Vol. 27: Arabia Mesopotamia, and Persia : (Nabataea, Arabia Provincia, S. Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Alexandrine Empire of the East, Persis, Elymais, Characene) - G.F. Hill (1922) Vol. 28: Cyrenaica - E.S.G. Robinson (1927)
Series: Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum This series was prepared by Harold Mattingly, R. A. G. Carson, and P. V. Hill. Vol. 1: Augustus to Vitellius - H. Mattingly (1923), (2nd edition 1976, prepared by R.A.G. Carson) Vol. 2: Vespasian to Domitian - H. Mattingly (1930), (2nd edition 1976, prepared by R.A.G. Carson). Vol. 3: Nerva to Hadrian - H. Mattingly (1936), (2nd edition 1976, prepared by R.A.G. Carson). Vol. 4: Antoninus Pius to Commodus - H. Mattingly (1940), (2nd edition in 1968). Vol. 5: Pertinax to Elagabalus - H. Mattingly (1950), (2nd edition 1975, prepared by R.A.G. Carson & P.V. Hill). Vol. 6: Severus Alexander to Balbinus and Pupienus - R.A.G. Carson (1962)
Series: Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum These catalogues were prepared by Stanley Lane Poole, and edited by Reginald Stuart Poole. Vol. 1: The coins of the Eastern Khaleefehs in the British Museum (1875) Vol. 2: The coins of the Mohammedan dynasties in the British Museum, classes III-X (1876) Vol. 3: The coins of the Turkman houses of Seljook, Urtuk, Zengee, etc, in the British Museum, classes X-XIV (1877) Vol. 4: The coinage of Egypt under the Fatimee Khaleefehs, the Ayyoobees and the Memlook Sultans, classes XIVa-XV (1879) Vol. 5: The coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain and the kings of the Yemen in the British Museum, classes XIVb-XXVII (1880) Vol. 6: The coins of the Mongols in the British Museum, classes XVIII-XXII (1881) Vol. 7: The coinage of Bukhara (Transoxiana) in the British Museum from the time of Timur to the present day, classes XXII- XXIII (1882) Vol. 8: The coins of the Turks in the British Museum, class XXVI (1883) Vol. 9: Additions to the Oriental collection 1876-1888, Part I: additions to vols I-IV (1889) Vol. 10: Additions to the Oriental Collection 1876-1888, part II, additions to vols V-VIII (1890)
Series: Catalogue of Indian coins in the British Museum These catalogues were compiled by Stanley Lane Poole, Percy Gardner, E. J. Rapson and John Allan, and the series was edited by Reginald Stuart Poole. For details of the collectors, authors, editors, printers, publishers and distributors of this series, see Helen Wang and Elizabeth Errington (2019)."The British Museum Catalogues of Indian Coins" by Helen Wang and Elizabeth Errington, in Sushmita Basu Majumdar and S. K. Bose (eds), Money and Money Matters in Pre-Modern South Asia. Nicholas G. Rhodes Commemoration Volume (Manohar, 2019), pp. 3-30. https://www.academia.edu/38141827/The_British_Museum_Catalogues_of_Indian_Coins (accessed 13 Jan 2019) Vol. 1: The coins of the sultans of Delhi in the British Museum - Stanley Lane Poole (1884) Vol. 2: The coins of the Muhammadan states of India in the British Museum - Stanley Lane Poole (1886) Vol. 3: The coins of the Greek and Scythic kings of Bactria and India in the British Museum - Percy Gardner (1886) Vol. 4: The coins of the Moghul emperors of Hindustan in the British Museum - Stanley Lane Poole (1892) Vol. 5: Catalogue of the coins of the Andhra dynasty, the Western Ksatrapas, the Traikutaka dynasty, and the "Bodhi" dynasty - E. J. Rapson (1908) Vol. 6: Catalogue of the coins of the Gupta dynasties and of Sasanka, king of Guada - J. Allan (1914) Vol. 7: Catalogue of the coins of ancient India - J. Allan (1936)
Series: Catalogue of Roman Provincial Coins This is a joint publication series with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, authored/edited by Andrew Burnett, Michel Amandry, Pere Pau Ripollès, Ian Carradice and M. Spoerri Butcher. Some volumes are available online Vol. 1: From the death of Caesar to the death of Vitellius (44 BC-AD 69) - A. Burnett, M. Amandry and P.P. Ripolles (1992), (reprinted with corrections 1998). Vol. 2: From Vespasian to Domitian (AD 69-96) - A. Burnett, M. Amandry and I. Carradice (1999) Roman provincial coinage: supplement 1 - A. Burnett, M. Amandry and P.P. Ripolles (1998) Vol. 7: De Gordien Ier à Gordien III (238-244 après J.-C.), Province d'Asie - M. Spoerri Butcher (2006) Vol. 10: Valerian and Gallienus through the year 12 of Diocletian (AD 253–295/6)
Other catalogues relating to Europe (classical) 1814 - Veterum populorum et regum numi qui in Musèo Britannico adservantur - T. Coomb 1874 - Roman medallions in the British Museum - H. A. Grueber 1910 - Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum - H. A. Grueber vol. 1 Aes rude, aes signatum, aes grave, and coinage of Rome from B.C. 268 vol. 2 Coinages of Rome (continued), Roman Campania, Italy, The social war and the provinces vol. 3. Tables of finds and cognomina, indexes, plates, etc (2nd edition 1970, prepared by R. A. G. Carson & M. H. Crawford) 1987-1995 - Catalogue of the Celtic coins in the British Museum: with supplementary material from other British collections - by D. Allen, edited by J. P. C. Kent and M. Mays vol. 1: Silver coins of the East Celts and Balkan peoples vol. 2: Silver coins of North Italy, South and Central France, Switzerland and South Germany vol. 3: The bronze coins of Gaul 1991 - Coins of Alexandria and the Nomes: a supplement to the British Museum - E. Christiansen (1991), ed. V. H. Hewitt & M. J. Price (British Museum Occasional Paper, no. 77) 1991 - The coinage in the name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum catalogue, 2 vols - M. J. Price 1992 - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain). The British Museum. Part 1, The Black Sea - M. J. Price 1996 - British Iron Age coins in the British Museum - R. Hobbs 2002 - Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Great Britain). The British Museum. Part 2, Spain - P. Bagwell Purefoy and A. Meadows 2010 - A catalogue of the Roman Republican Coins in the British Museum , with descriptions and chronology based on M. H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (1974) - E. Ghey and I. Leins (eds.), with contribution by M.H. Crawford
Other catalogues relating to Europe (medieval and modern) 1826 - Description of the Anglo-Gallic coins in the British Museum - T. Coomb 1860 - English copper, tin and bronze coins in the British Museum, 1558-1958 - C.W. Peck 1887 - Catalogue of English coins in the British Museum. Anglo-Saxon series, vol. 1 - F.C. Keary 1893 - Catalogue of English coins in the British Museum. Anglo-Saxon series, vol. 2 (Wessex and England to the Norman Conquest) - F.C. Keary and H.A. Grueber 1908 - Catalogue of the imperial Byzantine coins in the British Museum, 2 vols - W. Wroth 1911 - Catalogue of the coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum - W. Wroth 1916 - Catalogue of English coins in the British Museum. The Norman Kings (2 vols) - G.C. Brooke 1951 - A catalogue of English coins in the British Museum. The cross-and-crosslets ('Tealby') type of Henry II - D.F. Allen 1966 - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. 8, The Hiberno-Norse coins in the British Museum - R.H.M. Dolley 1966 - The Carolingian coins in the British Museum - R.H.M. Dolley and K.F. Morrison 1986 - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 34, British Museum: Anglo-Saxon coins. Athelstan to the reform of Edgar, 924-c.973 - M.M. Archibald and C.E. Blunt 2010 - Paper money of England and Wales - C. Eagleton and A. Manopoulou (eds) 2020 - The Italian Coins in the British Museum, vol. 1: South Italy, Siciliy, Sardinia, ed. by Barrie Cook, Stefano Locatelli, Giuseppe Sarcinelli and Lucia Travaini (Edizioni d.Andrea S.N.C.) ISBN 978-88-98330-44-7.
Other catalogues relating to Asia 1887 - The coins of the sháhs of Persia, Safavis, Afgháns, Efsháris, Zands, and Kájárs - R.S. Poole 1892 - Catalogue of Chinese coins from the VIIth century B.C., to A.D. 621, including the series in the British Museum - Terrien De La Couperie 1903 - Catalogue of the coins of Parthia - W. Wroth 1941 - Catalogue of the Muhammadan coins in the British Museum, Catalogue of the Arab-Sassanian coins (Umaiyad governors in the East, Arab-Ephthalites, ‘Abassid governors in Tabaristan and Bukhara) - J. Walker 1956 - Catalogue of the Muhammadan coins in the British Museum, Catalogue of the Arab-Byzantine and post-reform Umaiyad coins - J. Walker 1992 - A catalogue of sycee in the British Museum: Chinese currency ingots, c.1750-1933 - J. Cribb 1999 - Magic coins of Java, Bali and the Malay Peninsula, thirteenth to twentieth centuries: a catalogue based on the Raffles Collection of Coin-shaped Charms from Java in the British Museum - J. Cribb 1999 - Catalogue of the Aksumite coins in the British Museum - S. Munro-Hay 2004 - Money on the Silk Road: the evidence from Eastern Central Asia to c. AD 800, including a catalogue of the coins collected by Sir Aurel Stein - H. Wang 2010 - Catalogue of the Japanese coin collection (pre-Meiji) at the British Museum : with special reference to Kutsuki Masatsuna (British Museum Research Publication, no. 174) - S. Sakuraki, H. Wang, P. Kornicki, with N. Furuta, T. Screech and J. Cribb 2011 - Catalogue of Sikh Coins in the British Museum (British Museum Research Publication, no. 190) - Paramdip Kaur Khera 2017 - Charles Masson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan: Explorations, Excavations, Collections 1832-1835 - Elizabeth Errington, British Museum Research Publication 215.