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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 4529780, member: 76221&quot;]The author put her soul into that book designed specifically for those new to Byzantine coins.&nbsp; I have it in my library and would have loved to have something like it when I first started collecting Byz. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are a member of the ANA you can borrow books from them and pay only the postage.&nbsp; The folks in the library are very helpful.&nbsp; I have haunted that library many times, they have a very good Byzantine section. If not a member, become one as the use of the library is an enormous benefit of membership.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do recommend Sear (<i>Byzantine Coins and their Values) </i>second edition, highly as it is the go to book for anyone collecting this material and used copies are quite easy to find. Check out Powell&#039;s book store on line as a art:ww.powellsbooks.com.&nbsp; Check out EBay as well. UPDATE, powells doesn&#039;t have a copy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to Vcoins.com.&nbsp; Bookseller Charles Davis has a copy of Sear for $45, he also carries the Prue Fitts books I mentioned above for $30. Charles is a one man show and loves books.&nbsp; As an independent he is my go to guy when I need a numismatic book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another very excellent book is written by Harlan Berk.&nbsp; It covers the coinage from Anastasius I&nbsp; 493AD to Nicephorus III 1078-1081AD and is illustrated with beautiful line drawings as well as limited photos.&nbsp; Another excellent and inexpensive book that Charles carries is available new for $30 is <i>Lianta: Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453 in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford </i>which covers schyphates and late Byz coinage right up to the end, the fall of Constantinople in 1453. For these three books you would only spend $105 plus shipping. Charles uses book rate for posting. Get one or all of them. Taste and see.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first book 1983 or so, was a used of a compilation of excellent numismatic articles from <i> The Numismatist </i>published as a hard copy by the ANA decades ago. Happy hunting for that one, but there is an excellent article explaining the coins, dating regnal year coinage from the coinage reform of Anastasius I forward. If you find it you will be lucky, it is old, but so inexpensive no one carries it anymore.</p><p>I just checked my library and the book is no longer there; I suspect I gave it away to a new/young collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this helps you and others.&nbsp; &quot;This is my hobby, I do it for fun.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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