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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3052708, member: 19463&quot;]We get this question quite often and we never really give a satisfactory answer, I believe, because there is not one.&nbsp; I agree there are decent books that cover some aspects of ancient coins but there really is no good book to serve as a first exposure to the subject as a whole.&nbsp; There will be those here who say that only one part of ancient coins is worth collecting so all you need is the one volume that covers that area but even at the &#039;once over lightly&#039; level most books we recommend are a multi-volume set.&nbsp; I wish I could write a decent introduction to the whole of ancient coin collecting.&nbsp; I could not.&nbsp; Wayne Sayles made a good effort with his first volume of his Ancient Coin Collecting series but the main use of that book has been to guide users to which of the other five volumes in his set you should buy next.&nbsp; I guess there are really very few people who really want to collect &#039;ancient&#039; coins as a whole compared to those who want some subset and plan to ignore the rest.&nbsp; That brings us back to Jay&#039;s question:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My online answer is a little longer but not what you wanted and not on paper:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a></p><p>It was written for a friend who taught art history and wanted a short summary.&nbsp; &#039;Short&#039; here is a relative term.&nbsp; If it were even a little comprehensive, the paper version would be hard to lift.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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