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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4541301, member: 44316"]If you get interested in provincial coins, here is my book review of Butcher's book:</p><p><br /></p><p>"<i>Roman Provincial Coins: An Introduction to the Greek Imperials</i>, by Kevin Butcher, is an excellent introduction with a great deal of "meat". It can be read again and again. A slim book, it has excellent photographs of 95 coins and 258 line drawings of coins. It has many maps so you can tell where all those cities are. I must have already read it 8 times, and scanned it many more, and I still like it. If you might be interested in Roman Provincial coins, buy this book."</p><p><br /></p><p>I should have mentioned it is not intended to be a list of types so collectors can assign ID numbers to coins. A list of provincial coins would be hugely long and no one book can come close to covering the field. </p><p><br /></p><p>That review, and other book reviews, are on my page:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4541301, member: 44316"]If you get interested in provincial coins, here is my book review of Butcher's book: "[I]Roman Provincial Coins: An Introduction to the Greek Imperials[/I], by Kevin Butcher, is an excellent introduction with a great deal of "meat". It can be read again and again. A slim book, it has excellent photographs of 95 coins and 258 line drawings of coins. It has many maps so you can tell where all those cities are. I must have already read it 8 times, and scanned it many more, and I still like it. If you might be interested in Roman Provincial coins, buy this book." I should have mentioned it is not intended to be a list of types so collectors can assign ID numbers to coins. A list of provincial coins would be hugely long and no one book can come close to covering the field. That review, and other book reviews, are on my page: [URL]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/learnmore.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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