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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1463865, member: 26302&quot;]BMC Greek is Greek coins found in the British Museum collection. Sear means books by David Sear, one of the most respected ancient numismatists. His 1988 Roman coins and their values is the last one volume book on the subject. He is currently 4/5 of a 5 volume update, but its much more expensive, (for beginners). </p><p><br /></p><p>Sayles means introductory books &quot;Ancient coin Collecting vol 1-5&quot; by Wayne Sayles. Not a listing of types, and not very useful once a collector is experienced, but a fun start.</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG is basically museum or major collection holdings, and Copenhagen is excellent for Greek, Von Auloch excellent for Asia Minor, and ANS good all around. Dumbarton Oaks is the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks museum, washington DC. Probably the definitive publication. 5 volumes, all around $200 or more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Books on specific series would include David Sellwood (2nd edition) Parthian Coins, Robert Gobl for Sassanian, Anne Vant haffe for Elymais, etc. Many series will have &quot;intermediate&quot; books for advanced collectors. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another suggestion I like for ancients is the &quot;world of numismatics&quot; series published in the 70&#039;s with the titles &quot;Greek Coins&quot;, &quot;Roman Coins&quot; and &quot;Byzantine coins&quot;. Nice &quot;coffee table&quot; books with nice coinage background that sometimes are found inexpensively on Ebay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recommended Krause catalogs for world coins, but that is just the start. Every country has specialty books, and I highly recommend them if you start concentrating just on a certain country. KM is VERY generic, and there are literally tens of thousands of rarities not listed in their pages. If they did, one century would be more like 20 phone books rather than 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any other questions Mike just let me know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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