The Numismatic Bibliography of Dr L.H. Cope

Published Papers

ID Author(s) Title Publication Date Pages
1 Cope L.H. & Billingham H.N. The composition of 35 Roman bronze coins of the period A.D. 284-363. Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group,
Volume 1, No.9		 1967 1-6
2 Cope L.H. A Silvered Bronze False Antoninianus. Ascribed to the Roman Emperor Gordian III, A.D. 238-244 Metallurgia,
Volume 75, No.447 (January)		 1967 15-20
3 Cope L.H. Roman Imperial Silver Coinage Alloy Standards: The Evidence The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 7		 1967 107-131
4 Cope L.H. & Billingham H.N. The composition of 26 Roman Imperial silver and bronze coins minted between AD 206 and 360. Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group,
Volume 2, No.1		 1968 51-53
5 Cope L.H. & Billingham H.N. Chemical analyses of 31 large Roman bronze coins minted between AD 294 and 307. Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group,
Volume 2, No.2		 1968 70-72
6 Cope L.H. The Argentiferous Bronze Alloys of the Large Tetrarchic Folles of A.D. 294-307 The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 8		 1968 115-149
7 Cope L.H. & Billingham H.N. Chemical analyses of some weight-reduced Roman folles minted between AD 307 and 318. Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group,
Volume 3, No.1		 1969 30-32
8 Cope L.H. & Billingham H.N. The chemical composition of the bronze coinage of Maxentius, AD 306-312. Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group,
Volume 3, No.2		 1969 62-64
9 Cope L.H. The Nadir of the Imperial Antoninianus in the Reign of Claudius II Gothicus, A.D. 268-270 The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 9		 1969 145-161
10 Cope L.H. The sequence of issues in the long T/F series of Constantinian folles minted at Trier, A.D. 309-315 Schweizer Münzblätter,
Volume 19 (Aug.)		 1969 59-65
11 Cope L.H. A summary of The Metallurgical Investigation of Roman Coinage, a paper read at the RNS meeting of 21 April 1970 Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 10		 1970 xiii-xiv
12 Cope L.H. Die-module measurements, and the sequence of Constantine's reformed folles issues of Spring A.D. 310 and of early A.D. 313 Schweizer Münzblätter,
Volume 20		 1970 46-61
13 Cope L.H. & Billingham H.N. Further analyses of the bronze coinage of the Roman Emperor Maxentius, AD 306-312. Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group,
Volume 5, No.1		 1971 33-36
14 Cope L.H. Oxygen in Roman coinage metals and alloys Spink's Numismatic Circular,
Volume 79, No.11 (Nov.)		 1971 402-404
15 Cope L.H. Metallurgical Examination and Chemical Analysis
(Report appended to Leysdown (Kent) Hoard of Early Roman Imperial Bronzes by Carson R.A.G.) 		Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 11		 1971 194-197
16 Cope L.H. The Metallurgical Analysis of Roman Imperial Silver and Aes Coinage Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage ed. Hall E.T. & Metcalf D.M.,
Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No.8		 1972 3-47
17 Cope L.H. Report on the wet-chemical analysis of parts of the coins (Appendix V to
'A comparative analysis of some gold coins' Oddy W.A. & Schweizer F.) 		Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage ed. Hall E.T. & Metcalf D.M.,
Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No.8		 1972 180-181
18 Cope L.H. & Warren R. A Comparison of Electron-probe Microanalysis with other Methods for Determining the Bulk Alloy Compositions of Ancient Coins Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage ed. Hall E.T. & Metcalf D.M.,
Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No.8		 1972 237-247
19 Cope L.H. Surface-silvered Ancient Coins Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage ed. Hall E.T. & Metcalf D.M.,
Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No.8		 1972 261-278
20 Cope L.H. The Complete Analysis of a Gold Aureus by Chemical and Mass Spectrometric Techniques Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage ed. Hall E.T. & Metcalf D.M.,
Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication No.8		 1972 307-313
21 Cope L.H. The Metallurgical Examination of a Debased Silver Coin of Maximinus Daza issued by Constantine I Archaeometry,
Volume 15, Part 2		 1973 221-228
22 Cope L.H. A metallurgical examination of four false dirhams from the Iranian hoard
(Appendix to An Iranian hoard of forged dirhams by Morton A.H.) 		The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 15		 1975 165-168
23 Cope L.H. The chemical composition of a tetradrachm of Probus with a reverse type illustrating Codex Theodosianus XII, vii, I The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 15		 1975 187-190
24 Cope L.H. Mass-spectrometric analyses of the Roman copper coinage of the early Empire Spink's Numismatic Circular,
Volume 83 (Oct.)		 1975 383-384
25 Cope L.H. & Gilmore G.R. Gold, Antimony, Arsenic and Indium in the Copper-based Roman Imperial Coinage Alloys Universities Research Reactor, Risley, Warrington,
Report URR-5		 1975
26 Cope L.H. The fineness and sequence of the Gallienic Antoniniani, A.D. 259-68 The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 17		 1977 216-219
27 Cope L.H. Diocletian's Price Edict and Second Coinage Reform in the Light of Recent Discoveries The Numismatic Chronicle,
7th series, Volume 17		 1977 220-226
28 Cope L.H. Diocletian's Price Edict and its associated coinage denominations Schweizer Münzblätter,
Volume 27		 1977 7-12

Links to Publishers
Archaeometry , Bulletin of the Historical Metallurgy Group, Metallurgia, The Numismatic Chronicle, Schweizer Münzblätter, Spink's Numismatic Circular .
The Universities Research Reactor, Risley, Warrington was jointly owned by Liverpool University and Manchester University. It was decommissioned and the site cleared in 1996.


Doctoral Thesis

Cope L.H. 1974 The metallurgical development of the Roman Imperial coinage during the first five centuries AD, Doctoral thesis, Liverpool Polytechnic and the Council for National Academic Awards, London.
(Reviewed in The Numismatic Chronicle, 7th series, Volume 15, 1975 pp236-7.)		 The full thesis scanned from the original master is made available here for download from here.
Includes analysis results for over 500 coins.


Collected Analysis Results

Cope L.H., King C.E., Northover J.P., and Clay T., 1997. Metal analyses of Roman coins minted under the Empire, British Museum Occasional Paper 120. British Museum Press.

Unpublished Papers

These include papers presented at meetings, many of which were not subsequently published in printed form, and papers prepared but never published. Where the original manuscript survives, I aim to make a copy available here.

Author(s) Date Title Comments

A draft for a paper covering the discovery of the Burton Latimer hoard and his examination of the coins.
Cope L.H. 1966 The Burton Latimer Hoard of Late Third Century Roman Antoniniani A transcription from the draft manuscript is here.

Papers presented at the Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection held by the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University
Cope L.H. 1972 The Place of Wet-chemical Metallurgical Analysis in Archaeological Research This was the basis of the paper published in Archaeometry - see published paper 21 above. It was presented via a tape-recording which survives.
Cope L.H. 1973 Metallurgical segregation. Its influence on coin analyses  
Cope L.H. & Gilmore G.R. 1974 Neutron activation analysis of precipitates extracted from Roman coins See next paper below.
Cope L.H. & Gilmore G.R. 1975 Arsenic and Indium in Roman copper coinage alloys This paper reported on the results of further studies related to the 1974 paper. The substance of these two papers and more results were published in the Universities Research Reactor report - see published paper 25 above.
Cope L.H. 1975 Complete analyses of Timna coppers from the 13th - 12th century BC: extraction site 2 Manuscript available.
Cope L.H. & Gilmore G.R. 1975 Analyses of some late Byzantine copper scyphate coinages of the thirteenth century AD, and the analysis of counterfeit dirhems from Susa (Persia)  
Cope L.H. 1975 Mass spectrometric analyses of the Roman copper coinage of the early empire This was the basis of the paper published in Spink's Numismatic Circular - see published paper 24 above.

A lecture presented to work colleagues at UKAEA
Cope L.H. 1977 Alloy developments 3000 BC to AD 1977 Manuscript available.

A report to the British Academy on the 30 coin analyses made possible by the award made in June 1976.
Cope L.H. 1977 Metallurgical Analyses of Late Third-Century Roman Imperial Coinage A copy scanned from the typescript is available here.

A paper presented at the Materials in Archaeology Conference held jointly by The Materials Science Club and The City University, London
Cope L.H. 1978 The development of the Roman Imperial coinage alloys during the 3rd century AD A copy created from the manuscript is available here.

A paper prepared shortly before his death concerning the accurate dating of an Egyptian Papyrus from the date of coinage reforms.
Cope L.H. 1978 The Dating of P.Oxy. 1411 A copy scanned from the typescript is available here.