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<p>[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 3697356, member: 104887"]All,</p><p><br /></p><p>The BnF's collections are online, available through their Gallica web site. The gateway portal is at <a href="https://www.bnf.fr/fr" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bnf.fr/fr" rel="nofollow">https://www.bnf.fr/fr</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>Though not complete this is a work in progress that offers rich rewards for users. Unfortunately for me the site is French centric in language (ahhh, my Francophone parents would shudder ...) but there is an English language search guide for their Greek Coins so I hope the Roman collectors can adopt and adapt it to search for Roman Coins. The Guide is a PDF file at <a href="https://blog.cgb.fr/pdf/presentation_monnaies_grecques_sur_bnf_anglais.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://blog.cgb.fr/pdf/presentation_monnaies_grecques_sur_bnf_anglais.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cgb.fr/pdf/presentation_monnaies_grecques_sur_bnf_anglais.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A quick and dirty search using "denarius" gave me 408 web pages (x 50 entries per page) of hits just now. The first 333 pages are Roman Republican denari. The other pages are their holding in numismatic books that mention the word denarius. I didn't go further. Enjoy.</p><p><br /></p><p>-Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Broucheion, post: 3697356, member: 104887"]All, The BnF's collections are online, available through their Gallica web site. The gateway portal is at [URL]https://www.bnf.fr/fr[/URL] . Though not complete this is a work in progress that offers rich rewards for users. Unfortunately for me the site is French centric in language (ahhh, my Francophone parents would shudder ...) but there is an English language search guide for their Greek Coins so I hope the Roman collectors can adopt and adapt it to search for Roman Coins. The Guide is a PDF file at [URL]https://blog.cgb.fr/pdf/presentation_monnaies_grecques_sur_bnf_anglais.pdf[/URL] A quick and dirty search using "denarius" gave me 408 web pages (x 50 entries per page) of hits just now. The first 333 pages are Roman Republican denari. The other pages are their holding in numismatic books that mention the word denarius. I didn't go further. Enjoy. -Broucheion[/QUOTE]
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