. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 38.—Barclay V. Head (1844-1914) of the British Museum coin cabinet and author of Historia tiummnrwn (pholo from Corolla Numismatka). is . . to build lip in oiuiinc the history of the ancient world as it existed from the seventh ccnturv before our era down to the closing years of the third century , a space of nearly a thousand ; "" This task Head accomplished masterfully within his 964 pages. At Reginald Poole's instigation, the British Museum in 1873 began the publication, in catalog form, of its collection of
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Fig. 38.—Barclay V. Head (1844-1914) of the British Museum coin cabinet and author of Historia tiummnrwn (pholo from Corolla Numismatka). is . . to build lip in oiuiinc the history of the ancient world as it existed from the seventh ccnturv before our era down to the closing years of the third century , a space of nearly a thousand ; "" This task Head accomplished masterfully within his 964 pages. At Reginald Poole's instigation, the British Museum in 1873 began the publication, in catalog form, of its collection of Greek coins. During a span of over hfty years a work of impressive quality has been achieved: by 1927 twenty-nine \olunics had been issued. Maintaining EckhePs geographical sequence, the titles include the ancient Greek coinages of Italy, Greece, the Islands, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Cyre- naica; still to be covered arc Gaul, Spain, and Mauritania. While the first \olumes, on which Poole and Gardner collaborated, adhered strictly to the form of a catalog, the later volumes, written by '5" I'rcfarc to the fust edition, p. xvii. B. V. Head, G. F. Hill, and more recently E. S. G. Robinson—with extensive introductory studies on the monetary history of each geographical entity— come closer in their concept to a genuine corpus. Today this fine tradition is being continued by K<-nneih G. Jenkins, Keeper of Greek coins in the In addition to the catalogs, the British Museum in 1932 published a selection of the most outstanding Cireek coins in the museum. A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks (reprinted in 1959 in its 4th edition) was compiled by' G. F. Hill on the basis of B. \'. Head's earlier Coins of the Ancients (1880). Contrary to the opinion of some who consider a catalog a waste of efTort, unworthy of any scholar, such puljlications are invaluable. No corpus or monograph could be completed without the aid of accurate descriptions of countless specimens
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