Life
Head started work at the British Museum in 1864. He rose to be keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at theHonours and awards
* 1907 - awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society * 1914 - elected Honorary Member of the Academia Romana, BucharestBibliography
The following is a select bibliography.Books/catalogues
* ''British Museum Catalogue, Italy'' (with R. S. Poole and P. Gardner) (London, 1873) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Sicily'' (with R. S. Poole and P. Gardner) (London, 1876) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Thrace'' (with P. Gardner) (London, 1877) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Macedonia'' (London, 1879) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Central Greece'' (London, 1884) * ''Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics'' (Oxford, 1887) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Attica, Megaris, Aegina'' (London, 1888) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Corinth and her Colonie''s (London, 1889) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Ionia'' (London, 1892) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Caria'' (London, 1897) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Lydia'' (London, 1902) * ''British Museum Catalogue, Phrygia'' (London, 1906) * ''Historia Numorum, a Manual of Greek Numismatics. New and enlarged edition'' (assisted by G. F. Hill, George Macdonald, and W. Wroth) (Oxford, 1911) * ''British Museum: Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients from circ. 700 B.C. to 1 A.D.'' Second edition (London, 1881). [This is the second edition of the ''Guide'' published under a different title in 1880; it appeared in six "issues," each containing the whole text but only a portion of the 70 plates. Subsequent editions, some with only seven plates, appeared in 1883, 1886, 1889 ("third edition"), 1895 ("fourth edition")]. * ''British Museum: Guide to the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum'' (assisted by H. A. Grueber, W. Wroth, and E. J. Rapson) (London, 1901) * ''British Museum: Guide to the Select Greek Coins exhibited in electrotype in the Gold Ornament Room'' (1872) * ''British Museum: Guide to the Select Greek and Roman Coins exhibited in electrotype''. New edition. (1880)Articles
* "Account of the Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins found at Chancton Farm, Sussex", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1867) * "Anglo-Saxon Coins with Runic Legends" (1868) * "Notes on Ilion, numismatical and historical" (1868) * Translation of Ernst Curtius "On the Religious Character of Greek Coins" (1878) * "On some rare Greek Coins recently acquired by the British Museum" (1871) * "Greek autonomous Coins from the Cabinet of the late Mr. Edward Wigan" (1873) * "History of the Coinage of Syracuse" (1874) * "Metrological Notes on ancient electrum Coins", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1875) * "Notes on a recent Find of Staters of Cyzicus and Lampsacus", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1876, 1877) * "The Coinage of Lydia and Persia" ( International Numismata Orientalia, pt. III.) (1877) * "Notes on Magistrates’ Names on Autonomous and Imperial Greek Coins", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1877) * "Himyarite and other Arabian Imitations of Athenian Coins", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1878) * "On an unpublished archaic Tetradrachm of Olynthus", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1878) * "Note on a Find of Sicilian Copper Coins struck about the year 344 B.C.", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1879) * "Origin and Transmission of some of the principal Ancient Systems of Weight", ''Journal of the Institute of Bankers'' (1879) * "A Himyaritic Tetradracm and the Trésor de San'â", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1880) * "History of the Coinage of Ephesus", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1880, 1881) * "Chronological Sequence of the Coinage of Boeotia", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1881) * "The Coins of Ancient Spain", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1882) * "Coinage of Alexander: an explanation", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1883) * "Remarks on two Unique Coins of Aetna and Zancle", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1883) * "Greek and Roman Coins", in L. Jewitt's ''English Coins and Tokens'' (1886) * "The Coins found at Naukratis. In W. M. F. Petrie’s ''Naukratis'' (Egypt Exploration Fund) (1886) * "Coins discovered on the site of Naukratis (reprint of the preceding, with introductory remarks)", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1886) * "Electrum Coins and their Specific Gravity", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1887) * "Germanicopolis and Philadelphia in Cilicia", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1888) * "Notanda et Corrigenda. I. Ν or Μ on Athenian Coins. II. Two misread coins of Ephesus. III. Philadelphia Lydiae. IV. Lydian Gold Coinage", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1889) * "Apollo Hikesios", ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'' (1889) * "Archaic Coins probably of Cyrene", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1891) * "Coins recently attributed to Eretria", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1893) * "The Initial Coinage of Athens", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1893) * "Ιστρορια των Νομισματων ητοι Εγχειριδιον Ελληνικης Νομισματικης μεταφρασθεν .... και συμπληρωθεν υπο Ιωαννου Ν. Σβορωνου, 2 vols. and plates (Athens, 1898) * "The Earliest Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian Coins", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1906) * "Ephesian Tesserae", ''Numismatic Chronicle'' (1908) * "British Museum: Coins discovered in the British Museum Excavations at Ephesus" (The Archaic Artemisia) (1908)References
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