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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nerva, post: 2788254, member: 87761&quot;][ATTACH]646995[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;m quite new to the hobby, so this book looked perfect. Robert Eaglen wrote this book around his own collection, with short chapters on individual cities and rulers. It&#039;s great to dip into, and the quality of illustration is high. But I didn&#039;t love it. The writing is rather laboured, and sometimes slapdash: &quot;The Hellenistic period is fundamentally influential because it&#039;s adoption of coin portraiture, first copied by the Romans, endures to the present day&quot; (p.18). The explanation is circular and the glaring apostrophe error is distracting. A more conversational style would have gone a long way to endear me to the book. Still, it&#039;s a nice overview and I found it a good starting point, though I suspect many of you will find little new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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