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By no means am I linked to Dr. Richard Reece, but since buying this book in the "Museum Of London" shop back in December, I have found it a good introduction into the Roman coinage of Britain, the types we will most often come across from random metal detecting finds and the kind we see in Newspapers when a Hoard is found.
He knows what he is writing about, which is important!

There are 47 black and white large size photos of coins and 71 in colour.
It is in six parts:
1 Coinage in the Roman World (in 21 easy stages)
2 Coinage in Roman Britain
3 Hoards
4 Site-finds
5 The use of Roman coins
6 Britain and abroad
I was lucky to also get a copy earlier this month, of an "old version" ... same title, different author (Gilbert Askew) published in 1951.
http://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Roman...#043;britainIt has table lists of the coinage, with an Appendix on the "Barbarous Radiates" type of local coinage.
Instead of photos of coins, they are all drawings.
Rather than "jumping into the deep end of Roman coin attribution books" you can "dip your toe" with a cheap, useful book on Roman AE (Copper alloy) coins such as "Roman Base Metal Coins: A Price Guide":
http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Base-Me...e+GuideThere is also a very good site by Dane Kurth with A LOT of free information on AE Roman coins, with Excel lists FREE to download, on some common types of AE Roman coin:
http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htmHer main site is Wildwinds:
http://wildwinds.com/Again, A LOT of information on Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Celtic and English coins.