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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2195469, member: 19463&quot;]I really suggest beginners start with the online materials certainly including Warren&#039;s pages and mine both mentioned above. You will want to buy books on paper sooner rather than later but you need to figure out which books to buy first and how much you want to spend on books as well as coins.&nbsp; This is more easily done using free online materials than randomly buying a thousand dollars worth of books that may or may not overlap your interests.&nbsp; You might even decide to buy a book and seek out coins covered by that book rather than trying to collect generally and not owning the book that covers them.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html</a></p><p>I also have a few book reviews (above) on my pages but some of them are as much to talk you out of buying a book that is not likely to fulfill your needs.&nbsp; There are some books that I value greatly and use regularly but I believe their purchase and reading might be better put off for a couple years while you develop a feel for the language of coins.&nbsp; One place to start s here:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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