I have an educational page about reference works emphasizing late Roman bronze coins from the period of Diocletian and later. http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/LateRomanAE.html It begins with sale catalogs and continues with books. It does not list web sites. I just updated it today and solicit further suggestions. If you collect late Roman bronze and begin to be interested in it deeply, you will want some, or all, of the major reference works. Sale catalogs show you what fine examples of rare types look like and cost (common types don't usually make it into sale catalogs). Books can tell you the history and chronology, as well as show you fine museum specimens. If your interest is not in late Roman bronze, but some other area, you might find it listed on my "collecting themes" site: http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html
Very good grouping for reference materials. A lot of hard work involved putting it together I should think. Thanks. I have it bookmarked
I've got a grouping for two places you haven't got covered (note, ask for comments on what I have down for Elymais): Carthage: - SNG Copenhagen, Carthage (part 42 or volume 8) - Alexandropoulos, "Les monnaies de l'Afrique antique : 400 av. J.-C - 40 ap. J.C." (2009) - Müller, "Numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique. Vol. II: Les monnaies de la Syrtique, de la Byzacène et de la Zeugitane " (1860) + "supplément" (1874) (available online [legally] in parts at http://archive.org/search.php?query=numismatique de l'ancienne Afrique) Elymais: - Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values - BMC Arabia (available online [legally] at http://archive.org/details/cataloguegreekco00brit) - van't Haaff, Catalog of Elymaean Coinage
Windchild, thanks for the references. My pages began with the intention of listing sale catalogs. At first I thought that those of us with a scholarly bent would know the important books already, however, I soon realized that books and some articles might be unknown to the page visiters, so I am gradually adding those. I am unaware of any sale catalogs with a focused collection of Carthage pieces, so I have not begun that sub-page. I just added in the Elymais reference and BMC Greek for Parthia, Elymais, and Persis. I have not decided if I ought the mention Sear's references -- they are the obvious first place to start for any Greek series and not specialist references.
While still true, this has been getting better in the era of the Internet. When I started collecting, it was hard to find a dealer who would illustrate a late Roman bronze or even a third century silver. Illustrated catalogs cost money and there is no profit in publishing a paper book filled with $10 coin photos. Today, online photos make it expected to illustrate everything so we get to see what is being offered and watch for minor varieties. Of course the $10 coins are $50 now but most of us have more cash on hand than we did in 1960 or 1990. I love my old catalog collection and have some of them marked on the cover as to what is well covered inside as well as which include even a single 'special' Severan denarius. The only problem with them is that a stack o a few hundred are hard to sort through looking for something specific compared to the search functions of online resources. Valentinian has done us all a great service with his suggestions of catalogs for specific interests. There are many old books that I consider worthless (Philip Hill on Septimius comes to mind) but catalogs with thousands of coin photos will remain great resources at least until someone scans them all and puts them online. I own all the CNG/Victor England catalogs that predate the ones CNG put online. The later, online ones are easier to use; the earlier paper ones are more fun to flip through. One of the books recommended in the OP link is Victor Failmezger's on Late Roman Bronzes for which I shot the plates. The plates include some rare things and many common coins. The most rare came from a couple of private collections of people you know as well as from Victor's own collection. Photographing the coins for that book is what got me interested in late Romans. I still have the files if anyone wants to see a large photo of one of those coins.
