La collection numismatique de l'Institut français d'études byzantines

This paper gives an inventory of the ca 1175 coins of the IFEB collection with some illustrations. This set of poorly preserved mostly copper coins came from purchases or gifts in the Istanbul Great Bazar in the 1910s-1920s: Greek and Hellenistic 13%, Roman (including the provincial series with Greek legends struck in Asia Minor) 57%, Byzantine 20%, Islamic 10% (from the Omayyads to the Ottomans, predominantly from the Seljuqs of Rūm). They are helpful in providing a more or less representative sample of small coinage circulation in Constantinople, but also within the territory that later belonged to the Ottoman Empire. The authors discuss this sample according to their respective fields (Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Byzantine coinage, Islamic coinage).