This webpage provides resources to help you find more information on the themes and topics of Hist 388D - Numismatics. For more information about the course see Professor Jere L. Bacharach's syllabus.
Most of the databases on this page are restricted to UW students, staff and faculty. These are marked with a lock
. To connect to these databases from home you will need to first click on the Off-Campus Access button in the upper-right hand corner and login with your UWnetid.
Have questions or need research help? Please contact Theresa Mudrock, the history librarian, via email at mudrock@u.washington.edu
Looking for Books? Start here.
Use the following catalogs to locate books in the UW Libraries and in other libraries around the region, nation and world. Books unavailable at the UW can be requested through Summit (if available at one of the member libraries) or through Interlibrary Loan.
Keywords to search for include coins, coinage, numismatics, money, paper money, coin hoards. Sample keyword searches:
- numismatics and islamic
- coinage and japan
- alexander the great and coins
- UW Libraries Catalog
Use the catalog to find books in the UW Library system as well as to find out if the library has a subscription to a magazine or journal.- Summit
Use Summit to request books that are not available, or are checked out, from other Northwest academic libraries.- Beta Catalog/WorldCat Local
Beta version of the catalog that simultaneously searches the UW Libraries Catalog, Summit and OCLC WorldCat plus an article database. Best used for topical searches; facilitates requesting books from other libraries.
Looking for Articles? Start here.
Use databases to find articles on a topic. Because topics for this class can vary, those listed here should only be considered starting points. If you are working on coins of a specific time period or region, be sure to also check and see if there are databases that target those areas. For example, if you are working on the currency of Egypt, you will also want to search
Once you identify an article you want, use the Check for UW Holdings button available on most databases to locate a copy in the library. If there is no button, search the UW Libraries Catalog for the title of the journal to locate a copy. Be sure to have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages and year) of your article.
Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested via Interlibrary loan.
- History & Other Specialized Databases
- General Databases - use for current topics such as the state quarter designs
Looking for Images of Coins? Start here.
In addition to searching the catalog using the keywords listed above to find books that may include images of coins, use the following websites. Most include ancient and medieval examples of coinage. Additional links are listed on the American Numismatic Society's Resources on the Internet page.
- Fitzwilliam Museum - 35,000+ coins iron age to the 19th c., European, Asian, Islamic
- British Museum - search for "coin" finds 400+ items; "money" finds 200+
- Smithsonian Images - mostly American currency
- National Museum of American History - mostly American currency
- Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins - Roman
- Roman Provincial Coinage Online - Roman
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29 September 2007
Theresa Mudrock
