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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;vlaha, post: 1850930, member: 56398&quot;]Well I finally got around to doing a book review, enjoy!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>First impression:&nbsp; Milne did a very thorough job researching his work, it has an extensive &quot;introduction&quot;, which is more a history of Egyptian coining tech, monetary history, and other useful things.&nbsp; One of the most interesting &quot;useful things&quot; are several pages on mintage figures, only instead of numbers he uses comparisons to the years before.&nbsp; Ingenious!&nbsp; For example: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;56.&nbsp; <i>Philip </i>The accession of Philip was followed by an expansion in the Alexandrian coinage : in the five months which made up his year 1 the total output was quite great as in the last seven months Gordianus III, and in year 2 the average of recent years was more than doubled : there was a slight fall in year 3, which was partly in year 4, and wholly so in years 5 and 6 : his year 7 was barly commenced at his death.&nbsp; In years 5 and 6 there was also an issue of bronze coins of the drachma size, which were probably metallic or commemorative in purpose, like those of Caracalla and Alexander, and not used for ordinary circulation.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>So he has some good information, and put a fair amount of work in the process, but it takes careful reading to get the most out of Milne.&nbsp; If you have trouble with that, read this:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1390245280&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=how+to+read+a+book" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1390245280&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=how+to+read+a+book" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Intelligent-Touchstone/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1390245280&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=how to read a book</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cataloging system:&nbsp; Milne organizes into family groups, in this case under Philip I and then categorizes using a very logical short hand.&nbsp; Beforehand (near the beginning of the book) a lowercase letter number combo is assigned to each bust type, bare head, mailed bust, ect. (This system is used regardless of ruler while the letter number combos are recycled.) </p><p><br /></p><p>Next, a capital letter number combo is assigned to each legend of the main ruler.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]309213[/ATTACH]</p><p>Then combos are assigned to other members.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309215[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally you get to the listings, they start with the year (off picture to the left),</p><p>then the catalog number, denomination (if more than one denomination was issued tets are listed first), diameter, weight, obverse type/ruler (If no ruler is listed than it&#039;s assumed to be the Big Daddy, in this case Philip I.), reverse design (If no design is specified than it&#039;s assumed to be the one that was last listed.), and finally source.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309220[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>My biggest peeve is that Milne lists the reverse types/descriptions<i> with most of them not pictured</i> in the index.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I hope all of you enjoyed (and hopefully understood) my review.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheers!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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