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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2567241, member: 44316&quot;]There is a significant distinction between references for identification and dating (gotta have that ID number!) and references for overview and understanding. I am writing about the latter.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; John Anthony&#039;s &quot;Collecting Greek Coins&quot; is a well-illustrated (but only life-size in B&amp;W) overview with lots of discussion but it does not serve to ID coins. It is inexpensive.&nbsp; &quot;Ancient Greek Coins&quot; by G. K. Jenkins (the first, Putnam, edition is better than the second!) has beautiful overview with 695 enlarged photographs, many in color, covering the entire &quot;Greek&quot; world. The second (Seaby) edition is inexplicably much smaller and inferior. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Coinage in the Greek World&quot;, by Ian Carradice and Martin Price (1998), is an excellent work, very well suited to beginners and advanced collectors alike.&nbsp; Written by two top scholars, it is completely authoritative. Nevertheless, it is completely user-friendly. It is not a &quot;How to collect&quot; guide, but a chronologically organized well-illustrated discussion of ancient Greek coins. This is an outstandingly good book. If you are thinking of collecting Greek coins, buy this book. It is easy to start with, but, no matter how far you advance, you will never outgrow it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a page on ancient-coin reference works:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I also recommend Kraay &quot;Archaic and Classical Greek Coins&quot; and Morkholm, &quot;early Hellenistic Coinage&quot; as scholarly works on their time periods, but they are not books for beginners.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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