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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2726153, member: 44316&quot;]<i>Coinage in the Roman World</i> by Andrew Burnett is packed with information from one the world&#039;s top scholars (and, former Curator of the British Museum collection). In summary form, it incorporates all of the most recent scholarship on Roman coinage from its beginnings to the end of the empire. It has chapters on mint authority, monetary history, designs and propaganda, circulation and function, inflation, the coming of Christianity, and the transition to medieval coinage. It is only 168 pages plus plates of 187 coins, but a super book. <b>This would be my top recommendation</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Collecting Greek Coins</i> by John Anthony is a well-illustrated and inexpensive introduction. It is not a price guide, and not quite a &quot;how to collect&quot; book either, but it&nbsp; discusses the coins of the most prominent city-states (Athens, Corinth, Syracuse, etc.), the Hellenistic Kingdoms, the East, and has a chapter on thematic collecting. I recommend it.</p><p><br /></p><p><i> An Outline of Ancient Greek Coins</i> by Zander Klawans is a 1982 book with lots of information, but not as expository as the Anthony book. It really is more of an &quot;outline&quot; with one coin of each of many cities illustrated and about 35 pages of basic introduction. This is a very basic book. I recommend it.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; <i>Coinage in the Greek World</i>, by Ian Carradice and Martin Price (1998), is an excellent work, very well suited to beginners and advanced collectors alike.&nbsp; Written by two top scholars, it is completely authoritative. Nevertheless, it is completely user-friendly. It is not a &quot;How to collect&quot; guide, but a chronologically organized well-illustrated discussion of ancient Greek coins. This is an outstandingly good book. If you are thinking of collecting Greek coins, <b>buy this book</b>. It is easy to start with, but, no matter how far you advance, you will never outgrow it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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