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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 1826968, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Well Doug, my $4.66 book by C.H.V. Sutherland arrived the other day ... and although I certainly haven&#039;t had a chance to read through the entire book, I can give you my quick first impressions:</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b><span style="color: #ff0000">I really think that the book is a total winner!!</span></b> ... it is a bit of combination of several other books that I own ... for example:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; it has David Sear-esque descriptions of each coin, including the coin&#039;s mint-date and the obverse &amp; reverse descriptions ... ummm, but it doesn&#039;t have a relative $$ comparison, which I love about the Sears books ... oh, but it does include the coin diameters and weights </span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; it has super coin-photos, kinda like ERIC II (some colour plates, but mostly black and white coin-photos) ... the coin photos are all sweet big babies!! (even the smaller photos are 40-50mm in diameter and several of the larger photos are 100cm in diameter!! ... yup, that part is very cool)</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">NOTE =&gt; but unlike Sear and ERIC II, this book does &quot;not&quot; contain info and photos on &quot;every&quot; Roman coin ... this book is a far lighter read than those two previosuly mentioned books.&nbsp; Sutherland&#039;s book basically describes the evolution of Roman coins, rather than trying to be an inventory of every Roman coin.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; hey Doug, my new $4.66 book is far closer to being kinda like John Anthony&#039;s &quot;Collecting Greek Coins&quot; (which you also recommended and I enjoyed thoroughly) ... basically, the author takes you on a journey through the evolution of Roman coinage ... </span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Chapters include:</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I - The Earliest Coinage of the Roman Republic (32 pages of photos and info)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>II - The Introduction and Supremecy of the Denarius, circa 211-100 BC (30 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>III - Republican Coinage in the Time of the Imperatores, 100-48 BC (18 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>IV - The End of the Roman Republic, 48-27 BC (36 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>V - The Reformed Coinage of Augustus and its Development down to Nero, 27BC-67AD (44 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>VI - Dissolution and the New Imperial Dynasties (The Flavians, Trajan, and the Antonines, 68-192 AD (44 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>VII - Inflation, Decentralization, and Reform (From the Severi to Diocletian), 193-305 AD (42 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>VIII - The Final Stage: From Constantine I to Romulus Augustulus, (26 pages)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>... followed by 28 pages of notes on the text, glossary, index, etc ...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Here are a few photos of this diamond in the rough:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]300824[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]300825[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]300826[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]300827[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]300828[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]300829[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Yah, as I stated earlier =&gt; &quot;I really liked it&quot; ... but again, it certainly isn&#039;t a coin-inventory like the David Sear books and/or like ERIC II (Sutherland&#039;s book is merely a really cool book on Roman coins ... nothing too fancy and deep ... just cool)</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, I hope this helps (oh, and if you click on the photos they should enlarge, so that you can take a closer peek)</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Cheers</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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