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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4498108, member: 110350&quot;]The &quot;Ancient Selfies&quot; book is a good, inexpensive book with decent (although small) photos, but if Pangerl&#039;s book on Hellenistic coin portraits is anything like his book on Roman coin portraits (which I own) -- and it appears to be, from the descriptions I&#039;ve looked at -- it&#039;s nothing like &quot;Ancient Selfies.&quot;&nbsp; Pangerl&#039;s books are large, high-end &quot;coffee-table&quot; style art books, each with hundreds of very large color photos, and each sells for a list price of £65.00 (close to $100).&nbsp; The only drawback of the Roman coin book for me is that most of the essays are in German, although the book does, at least, have brief English-language abstracts of all of them.&nbsp; And you don&#039;t need to read German to enjoy and appreciate the glorious photographs!&nbsp; I assume that the same is true of the Hellenistic coin book.</p><p><br /></p><p>See these descriptions from the publisher, Spink.&nbsp; For the Roman coin book: </p><p><a href="http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?" rel="nofollow">http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?</a>&nbsp; route=product/product&amp;product_id=418.</p><p>And for the Hellenistic coin book: <a href="http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=735" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=735" rel="nofollow">http://www.spinkbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=735</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a mildly critical, but positive overall, review of the Hellenistic coin book in Coins Weekly: <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/hellenistic-portraits/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/hellenistic-portraits/" rel="nofollow">https://coinsweekly.com/hellenistic-portraits/</a> .&nbsp; It certainly has nothing but good things to say about the photography!&nbsp; And here is the same publication&#039;s overwhelmingly positive review of Pangerl&#039;s Roman coin portrait book: <a href="https://coinsweekly.com/500-years-of-roman-portrait-art/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinsweekly.com/500-years-of-roman-portrait-art/" rel="nofollow">https://coinsweekly.com/500-years-of-roman-portrait-art/</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: So far as I know, neither Pangerl book has a Kindle version, and books like this aren&#039;t really meant to be read on Kindle anyway.&nbsp; It would be a poor substitute for the actual books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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