Author:Barclay Vincent Head

Barclay Vincent Head
(1844–1914)

British curator; Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum.

Barclay Vincent Head

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Books

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  • British Museum Catalogue, Italy (with R. S. Poole and P. Gardner) (London, 1873)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Sicily (with R. S. Poole and P. Gardner) (London, 1876)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Thrace (with P. Gardner) (London, 1877)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Macedonia (London, 1879)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Central Greece (London, 1884)
  • Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics (Oxford, 1887)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Attica, Megaris, Aegina (London, 1888)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Corinth and her Colonies (London, 1889)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Ionia (London, 1892)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Caria (London, 1897)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Lydia (London, 1902)
  • British Museum Catalogue, Phrygia (London, 1906)
  • Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics. New and enlarged edition (assisted by G. F. Hill, George Macdonald, and W. Wroth) (Oxford, 1911)
  • British Museum: Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients from circ. 700 B.C. to 1 A.D. Second edition (London, 1881). Six issues. Subsequent editions, some with only seven plates, appeared in 1883, 1886, 1889 ("third edition"), 1895 ("fourth edition")].
  • British Museum: Guide to the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum (assisted by H. A. Grueber, W. Wroth, and E. J. Rapson) (London, 1901)
  • British Museum: Guide to the Select Greek Coins exhibited in electrotype in the Gold Ornament Room (1872)
  • British Museum: Guide to the Select Greek and Roman Coins exhibited in electrotype. New edition. (1880)

Articles

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  • "Account of the Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins found at Chancton Farm, Sussex", Numismatic Chronicle (1867)
  • "Anglo-Saxon Coins with Runic Legends" (1868)
  • "Notes on Ilion, numismatical and historical" (1868)
  • Translation of Ernst Curtius "On the Religious Character of Greek Coins" (1878)
  • "On some rare Greek Coins recently acquired by the British Museum" (1871)
  • "Greek autonomous Coins from the Cabinet of the late Mr. Edward Wigan" (1873)
  • "History of the Coinage of Syracuse" (1874)
  • "Metrological Notes on ancient electrum Coins", Numismatic Chronicle (1875)
  • "Notes on a recent Find of Staters of Cyzicus and Lampsacus", Numismatic Chronicle (1876, 1877)
  • "The Coinage of Lydia and Persia" (International Numismata Orientalia, pt. III.) (1877)
  • "Notes on Magistrates’ Names on Autonomous and Imperial Greek Coins", Numismatic Chronicle (1877)
  • "Himyarite and other Arabian Imitations of Athenian Coins", Numismatic Chronicle (1878)
  • "On an unpublished archaic Tetradrachm of Olynthus", Numismatic Chronicle (1878)
  • "Note on a Find of Sicilian Copper Coins struck about the year 344 B.C.", Numismatic Chronicle (1879)
  • "Origin and Transmission of some of the principal Ancient Systems of Weight", Journal of the Institute of Bankers (1879)
  • "A Himyaritic Tetradracm and the Trésor de San'â", Numismatic Chronicle (1880)
  • "History of the Coinage of Ephesus", Numismatic Chronicle (1880, 1881)
  • "Chronological Sequence of the Coinage of Boeotia", Numismatic Chronicle (1881)
  • "The Coins of Ancient Spain", Numismatic Chronicle (1882)
  • "Coinage of Alexander: an explanation", Numismatic Chronicle (1883)
  • "Remarks on two Unique Coins of Aetna and Zancle", Numismatic Chronicle (1883)
  • "Greek and Roman Coins", in L. Jewitt’s English Coins and Tokens (1886)
  • "The Coins found at Naukratis". In W. M. F. Petrie’s Naukratis (Egypt Exploration Fund) (1886) (external scan)
  • "Coins discovered on the site of Naukratis (reprint of the preceeding, with introductory remarks)", Numismatic Chronicle (1886)
  • "Electrum Coins and their Specific Gravity", Numismatic Chronicle (1887)
  • "Germanicopolis and Philadelphia in Cilicia", Numismatic Chronicle (1888)
  • "Notanda et Corrigenda. I. Ν or Μ on Athenian Coins. II. Two misread coins of Ephesus. III. Philadelphia Lydiae. IV. Lydian Gold Coinage", Numismatic Chronicle (1889)
  • "Apollo Hikesios", Journal of Hellenic Studies (1889)
  • "Archaic Coins probably of Cyrene", Numismatic Chronicle (1891)
  • "Coins recently attributed to Eretria", Numismatic Chronicle (1893)
  • "The Initial Coinage of Athens", Numismatic Chronicle (1893)
  • "Ιστρορια των Νομισματων ητοι Εγχειριδιον Ελληνικης Νομισματικης μεταφρασθεν .... και συμπληρωθεν υπο Ιωαννου Ν. Σβορωνου, 2 vols. and plates (Athens, 1898)
  • "The Earliest Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian Coins", Numismatic Chronicle (1906)
  • "Ephesian Tesserae", Numismatic Chronicle (1908)
  • "British Museum: Coins discovered in the British Museum Excavations at Ephesus" (The Archaic Artemisia) (1908)

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