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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1462721, member: 26302"]KM is Krause books, one for each century. "Standard Catalog of World Coins". For ancients, there is no red book unfortunately. Just way too many coin types to be covered in a single book. Heck, my BMC Greek set is like 27 volumes, (or 33, whatever), and even it does not cover every single Greek coin known. For ancients, you have the books from Sear that have some types listed and relative worth, beginner books on series to help you organize a collection like Sayles puts out, then what I term "professional" works. "Professional" being mainly books good dealers will have, but not as commonly collectors. Such books would be BMC Greek, SNG volumes like Copenhagen, ANS, Von Auloch, Dumbarton Oaks, etc. A middle category would be standard references for smaller series like Sellwood I mentioned, which are owned by dealers but usually by collectors of that series. Sorry its not easier, but for ancients you are talking over 1000 years, hundreds of issuing authorities, and 100's of thousands of different coins. Putting US coins in one book is child's play in comparison.[/QUOTE]