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<p>[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 3101421, member: 44357"]Thanks! One book which never fails to put a new purchase in its place is the sister book to your Roman Coins: Kraay & Hirmer's Greek Coins: <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/kraay__hirmer_greek_coins_thames__hudson_printing/849942/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/kraay__hirmer_greek_coins_thames__hudson_printing/849942/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/kraay__hirmer_greek_coins_thames__hudson_printing/849942/Default.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It's not an inexpensive book by any means but boy did they pick some fabulous examples. I don't mind admiring coins I'll never be able to purchase but it's hard when some aren't prohibitively expensive but just limited by supply. Some of the coins in the "Greek Coins" book represent phenomenal style for the types but where nothing remotely similar has been seen on the market in the last ~20 years and they currently reside who-knows-where.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I'll just have to make my usual periodic pilgrimage to the British Museum to deposit a bit of saliva on their collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AncientJoe, post: 3101421, member: 44357"]Thanks! One book which never fails to put a new purchase in its place is the sister book to your Roman Coins: Kraay & Hirmer's Greek Coins: [url]https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/kraay__hirmer_greek_coins_thames__hudson_printing/849942/Default.aspx[/url] It's not an inexpensive book by any means but boy did they pick some fabulous examples. I don't mind admiring coins I'll never be able to purchase but it's hard when some aren't prohibitively expensive but just limited by supply. Some of the coins in the "Greek Coins" book represent phenomenal style for the types but where nothing remotely similar has been seen on the market in the last ~20 years and they currently reside who-knows-where. In the meantime, I'll just have to make my usual periodic pilgrimage to the British Museum to deposit a bit of saliva on their collection.[/QUOTE]
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