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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 74814, member: 708&quot;]Depends on which country you&#039;re thinking of. If it was say France then GD would be the one with the answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re thinking Scottish, Ian&#039;s the one.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you had English coins in mind then i can get you started on that one. Two books i very highly recommend you invest in;</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Spinks Coins of England and the UK 2005</p><p>2) Coincraft&#039;s Standard Catalogue of English and UK Coins 2000</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are more specialist works solely devoted to English Hammered such as the North Catalogue which is the hammered coin collector&#039;s Koran. However that book is not what i&#039;d deem user friendly (certainly not for a beginner), plus there&#039;s no prices quoted in it, coins are denoted as C, N, S, R, VF or ER. (Common, Normal, Scarce, Rare, V. Rare, Ext. Rare). Which is not a deal of help to you.</p><p><br /></p><p>For prices you want the Spinks, that catalogue is far from perfect pricewise but it&#039;s more in tune with the market (often underpricing) than the Coincraft. The latter&#039;s prices are somewhat above the market prices, even five years after publishing, but the market is catching it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>For knowledge and identification purposes though the Coincraft is a masterpiece as far as general works go and is far easier to use than North when it comes to say identifying Edward III coins. (Which is my worst nightmare), along with the Henries.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Coincraft is now out of print though, but if you can pick up a copy (even a pre-2000 edition) it&#039;s well worth the money. The Spinks shouldn&#039;t be hard to find.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Spinks covers English coinage from Celtic (i.e pre-Roman Conquest), through Roman, Saxon, Norman and right upto the year before the year stated on the front cover.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coincraft 2000 covers William I (that is 1066) to 1999.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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