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Message:: [QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 4195287, member: 81887"][USER=15481]@svessien[/USER] :  Yes, it's always worth buying a Parthian coin.  They're kind of like potato chips:  You swear you're going to eat just one, and then suddenly it's half an hour later, the entire bag is empty, your hands are covered in salt and crumbs, and you kind of want another potato chip... I own two of those books, the Sayles "Ancient Coin Collecting, Volume I" and the Icard "Dictionary of Greek Coin Inscriptions".  Sayles' book is a useful overview of ancient coins, giving details about the various coinages and about how to evaluate and purchase coins.  (The section on Internet-based resources, however, is badly out of date.)  Icard's book basically just lists inscriptions from Greek coins as an aid to attribution.  The unique feature is that the legends are circularly permuted, that is, you can look it up starting at any letter on the coin, which is helpful for coins with only partial inscriptions visible.  I've used it to attribute some coins, although you could probably do the same nowadays online. I don't have the Richard Plant book, but I do have two others by the same author, "Arabic Coins and How to Read Them" and "Greek, Semitic, and Asiatic Coins and How to Read Them", both of which are absolutely invaluable in reading and attributing Near Eastern and Asian coins.  Based on those books, I would expect that your book is also very worthwhile.[/QUOTE]