What Ancient Coin Book To Buy Next?

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Curio Bill Valued Member United States 52 Posts	Posted 07/28/2009 10:32 pm I am really getting the ancient coin bug after I bought my first greek coin & a couple of denarii at a local show this past weekend. I already have 3 of the Sayles books (Vol. 2, 3 & 5) and I have the Klawans "Reading & dating Roman coins/Outline of ancient Greek coins" and the new Whitman "Collecting Greek coins" books on order. What other ancient book coin book should I buy next? Thanks, Bill Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 07/28/2009 10:53 pm Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins and ERIC (Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins) are also nice books to have and are not expensive. Report this Post to the Staff
Sir Ferrari Pillar of the Community United States 671 Posts	Posted 07/28/2009 11:01 pm David Vagi's two volume series, Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, is fantastic as it not only references coins, it also gives an in-depth history of each and every person depicted on a coin. I learned quite a lot from these books... Of course, you could always splurge and buy the RIC series, but that will set you back over a thousand dollars. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16836 Posts	Posted 07/28/2009 11:14 pm The Sear catalogues of Greek and Roman are excellent buys for general collectors of either of these series. There are currently two volumes of Greek, three volumes of Roman (with a fourth currently in the works) and one volume of Roman Provincial which I wouldn't recommend except as a general guide. The Greek catalogues (especially Volume II) also include some fringe non-Greek cultures (Carthaginian, Parthian, Celtic, Judaean, Nabatean, etc). If you can find a copy of the older, all-in-one-volume Sear catalogue of Roman, I would heartily recommend it. The prices would be a couple of decades out of date, but you can still use them as a general guide to rarity and relative price. The rest of the information in it is still good. Besides information on the particular coins, the Sear catalogues also contain some background information on the emperors and cities that issued the coins, as well as general guides to the coin types and such that you'd also get in the Sayles books. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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