Darn! I thought MAYBE, just MAYBE, you were needing a trustworthy assistant to do something fun really urgent and important-like with your collection. Well .....it could happen!!
Depends what you’re looking for when you say reference. A catalog with numbers, or a standard overview of Greek coinage?
Everything! I am looking for something that has colour plates/ great descriptions/ reference to look up even obscure coins like that AV 1/8 Daric from Karia.
I got a lot of good out of the Sear Greek books but you need to realize one thing about the books. The author attempted to list a few coins from as many places as possible but only did multiples from the really major cities/periods/varieties so you are not always going to find exactly matching coins to the ones you have. Overall, Sear has a lot of information that will help you understand the coins but it is not a catalog of great depth in any one specialty. I can not imagine a better use of so few pages when trying to cover the whole subject. If you just want information on Greek coins as a whole without catalog numbers and prices, I also like Rynearson https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-A...0?keywords=Greek+coins&qid=1571394607&sr=8-10 and Sayles volume II https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Coin...2?keywords=Greek+coins&qid=1571394661&sr=8-42 There are also a couple of books by Jenkins. I have not seen the smaller one but the large one is decent but not for people who must have catalog numbers. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=jenkins+Greek+coins&ref=nb_sb_noss Dollar for dollar, I got a lot of good fun out of Anthony. https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108
Well if you want to look for this coin, Konuk notes one in his article from a GM auction. I doubt you would find such rare coins in any generic book about greek coins. You'll have to look in museum collections...
Greek Coin Types and There Identification by Richard Plant published by Seaby. Sear is best if you buy 1 book, this has drawings of some additional coins.
I counted the number of types in Rutter's Historia Numorum: Italy and compared it with Sear Greek Coins and Their Values for Italy. Sear had only 18% as many types listed as Rutter. I can tell you are a visual guy who likes impressive things. There are no impressive coin catalogs in color. The impressive catalogs you want are the folio-sized SNGs. (I encourage everyone who has no folio-sized SNGs to purchase at least one. SNG ANS VI: Palestine-South Arabia is cheap.) You will feel great going to your shelves and pulling down a giant book full of Greek coins. The plates on the original paperback SNG folios have the best pictures. If you can afford them you should get them. High quality plates do not tire the eyes the way reprint SNG plates do. The easy Folio-sized SNGs to get are SNG ANS Palestine, SNG Copenhagen reprint, and SNG von Aulock reprint. With a little work you can get SNG ANS for Italy and Sicily and SNG ANS Burton Berry. The original SNGs for Copenhagen and von Aulock are better but you have to wait for a book auction.
Oliver Hoover's "Handbook of Greek Coinage" is a recent and more detailed alternative to Sear - https://www.cngcoins.com/Coins.aspx?CATEGORY_ID=2914&VIEW_TYPE=0 It lists far more types for each city - but of course is spread over 13 volumes, not all of which are yet available. ATB, Aidan.
Not existing is a problem as bad as being long out of print and unavailable. These are reasons we are lucky to have online resources --- not to mention being searchable.
