Excerpt from British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals: A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients, From Circ; B. C. 700 to A. D. 1
The want of a general chronological view of the coinage of the ancients has long been felt by all who have devoted any study to this branch of arch?ology. It is this want which I have here made a first attempt to supply.
In the choice and classification of the coins described in the following pages, I have throughout endeavoured to keep simultaneously in view the historic, artistic, and strictly numismatic interest of the coins selected. Thus, and thus alone, have I found it possible to present to the spectator a tolerably complete representative series of the gold and silver money current throughout the ancient world in approximate chronological order.
This series gives at the same time a view of the finest and most interesting Greek coins in the National Collection. Putting aside all theoretical ?sthetic methods of classification according to styles and schools of art, my endeavour has been to arrive at one which is mainly historical. With this object in view I began by erecting as many definitely fixed points of comparison as possible, that is to say, I chose a certain number of dated coins, or coins about the precise dates of which numismatists are generally agreed.
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