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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1335982, member: 26302"]Let's see, I might start with Frank Robinson's Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatic. I just sold a spare I had through Vcoins. Its a fairly scarce book, but a really fun read. Anyone who appreciate Frank's sense of humor from his auctions will like this. Full of great stories, and interesting facts and history, its a great read for any collector, US, world, or ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>My next one would be the catchy title, "Speedy Identification of Early Denominationally Marked Byzantine Coins From Anasatasius I to Basil I" by Dan Clark, 1990. It looks like a self print job, in metal rings, and is surprising good at quickly narrowing down and identifying these coins with only partial information, (very common on these). Once you figure out how to use it, its the best way I know of to identify any issues, and anyone in Byzantines know, half of these coins barely give you any clues.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a book like yours Doug, I would recommend instead Catalog of the Coins of Chach III to VIII century, by Shagalov and Kuznetsov. Using E. Rtveladze and other experts, its a more definitive refereince on these. In Russian and English, and available for $15. I might by a second backup copy, as the binding is not the greatest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1335982, member: 26302"]Let's see, I might start with Frank Robinson's Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatic. I just sold a spare I had through Vcoins. Its a fairly scarce book, but a really fun read. Anyone who appreciate Frank's sense of humor from his auctions will like this. Full of great stories, and interesting facts and history, its a great read for any collector, US, world, or ancient. My next one would be the catchy title, "Speedy Identification of Early Denominationally Marked Byzantine Coins From Anasatasius I to Basil I" by Dan Clark, 1990. It looks like a self print job, in metal rings, and is surprising good at quickly narrowing down and identifying these coins with only partial information, (very common on these). Once you figure out how to use it, its the best way I know of to identify any issues, and anyone in Byzantines know, half of these coins barely give you any clues. For a book like yours Doug, I would recommend instead Catalog of the Coins of Chach III to VIII century, by Shagalov and Kuznetsov. Using E. Rtveladze and other experts, its a more definitive refereince on these. In Russian and English, and available for $15. I might by a second backup copy, as the binding is not the greatest.[/QUOTE]
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