Posted 03/14/2011 12:28 pm
t0ress, those books are US $75-100...each. Your friend is a very good friend indeed!
Doucet, the David Sear books are very good and are perfectly acceptable, although RIC are the hobby "standard". The RIC set is very, very expensive, when you can even find them all, they are up to 10 (?) volumes at prices from over $100 each to more than $200. That's IF you can find them.
There is a TON of data available on the 'net, free, like the wildwinds database or the forums at Forvm ancient coins. There really isn't a need for extensive book collections anymore, especially at over $100 a copy.
Ancients are not like modern coins where everything is based on an absolute dreamed up by some coin dealers (the 70 point scale)and the book is the last word. New, unknown coins are found on a regular basis and values are pretty much made up, although there is a attempt to assign values it's pretty weak at best.
Wayne Sayles has published some really good, affordable books on coin collecting which I can recommend.
I really like his "classical deception" book on fakes. Forvm has an entire section of the forum devoted to fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits and has an extensive database of images of fakes.
Doucet, the David Sear books are very good and are perfectly acceptable, although RIC are the hobby "standard". The RIC set is very, very expensive, when you can even find them all, they are up to 10 (?) volumes at prices from over $100 each to more than $200. That's IF you can find them.
There is a TON of data available on the 'net, free, like the wildwinds database or the forums at Forvm ancient coins. There really isn't a need for extensive book collections anymore, especially at over $100 a copy.
Ancients are not like modern coins where everything is based on an absolute dreamed up by some coin dealers (the 70 point scale)and the book is the last word. New, unknown coins are found on a regular basis and values are pretty much made up, although there is a attempt to assign values it's pretty weak at best.
Wayne Sayles has published some really good, affordable books on coin collecting which I can recommend.
I really like his "classical deception" book on fakes. Forvm has an entire section of the forum devoted to fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits and has an extensive database of images of fakes.
