I have been searching unsuccessfully for a copy of Ian Carradice's Coinage and Administration in the Athenian and Persian Empires. The cheapest one I've found has been over $2,000 and some were priced as high as $12,000! That's insane. Am I unreasonable for hoping to find one for $100 or less? Does anyone know of a good resource where I can locate a copy? Edit to add: For those of you that do own the reference what are your thoughts on it? Worth it?
Wow, that is an incredible price! You could always try searching for it in a local library with WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/ I've used it to track down some reference books that I was unable to acquire at a reasonable price, such as The Coinage of Alexander the Great by Martin Price. A portable scanner and Adobe Acrobat come in real handy for making my own digital copies of the books.
It may be that you are looking to identify sigloi. See http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=70075.0 for a similar discussion from six years ago.
That is indeed what I'm researching! I saw Forvm had a page on the different types which was very helpful but I was hoping to dig a little deeper. From the link you posted it looks like this reference has always been insanely expensive! Where you ever able to get a copy and if so can you comment on if it was helpful for you to understand the types? This indeed may be the route I have to go though unfortunately it looks like I'll be having to make a bit of a trip of it since there are not any copies in my immediate area. Thank you for your reply and the suggestion!
Someone on the Forum thread photocopied the key section and mailed it to me. I owned one Persian siglos and I was able to use the material to identify it. I have the photocopy in my attic somewhere but it is unlikely I will be able to find it this year.
You can try this download, you only have to register. http://xohuntington.com/file/download/greek-coins-ian-carradice
Hey @Curtisimo I checked with the Library of Congress and they have a copy of the book. I'll walk over there next week and "borrow" the book in exchange for your awesome Lysimachus tet. In all seriousness, I would try the duplication services of the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/duplicationservices/ They can provide digital copies of all of their material for a fee. I'm not sure how the service works, but its got to be cheaper than $2000.
Hmmm doing some searching on this site's trustability makes me a little nervous to try it! Thank you for the suggestion though. I'll keep looking into that as a possibility. Haha I could buy several Lysimachus tets for the price of this book (which I can only assume is gold plated?). I might see if my local library could borrow it from another library. It seems that most of the libraries that have it are university libraries so I don't know how that works between a university and a public library. I miss being a student. I took the ability to instantly get whatever book I needed for granted... Wouldn't it be great if there was a digital library of numismatic books that you could view via a web portal with a subscription? I would pay good money for a service like that.
