Research Guides: Classical Studies: Map and Coin Resources

How Do I Find Map and Coin Resources?

Browse this page to find cartographical and topographical map resources as well as numismatic and coin-related resources. A variety of the resources link to outside web pages. Please contact the Classical Studies Librarian for more information. Blurb

Map Resources

Ancient World Mapping Center
Promotes cartography, historical geography, and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies.
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa.
LOCATION: Hatcher Graduate Clark Library Atlas Shelves 2 South ; G 1033 .B3 2000
The Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
Utilizes online data for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.
Digital Augustan Rome
An interactive map of Augustan Rome with a variety of locations and filters. Each location has a description and citations.
Interactive Nolli Map of Rome
A dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool. Contains cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form.
Pleiades
Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form.
Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
This site is dedicated to exploring the Severan Marble Plan of Rome. It presents surviving fragments as well as fragments known only from Renaissance drawings in a fully searchable database, along with a glossary, bibliography, and other information.
Theban Mapping Project
A comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes.

Coins and Currency Resources

Byzantine Coins: American Numismatic Society
Comprises some 13,000 coins struck at Byzantium and at the regional mints of the Byzantine Empire.
Coinage of the Roman Republic Online
Provides an online version of Michael Crawford's 1974 publication Roman Republican Coinage (RRC).
Greek Coins: American Numismatic Society
Includes all Greek coins, struck roughly between 650 BC and the time of the Roman conquest, and also the bronze coinages of Greek and other cities under Roman administration.
Medieval Coins: American Numismatic Society
Contains the coinage of Latin Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire down to the end of hammer-struck coinage during the course of the 17th century.
Münzkabinett Online Catalogue
This is an online database of coins from the Berlin collection.
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE)
A tool designed to help in the identification, cataloging, and research of the rich and varied coinage of the Roman Empire.
Roman Coins: American Numismatic Society
Includes all coins conventionally identified as Republican or imperial, as well as the silver coins of the imperial provinces and all coins of Roman Alexandria.
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum
An online database of nearly 25,000 Greek coins held in public and private collections in the British Isles.