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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3452793, member: 81887&quot;]Since &quot;ancients&quot; is a huge area of numismatics, there is no one &quot;Red Book&quot; catalogue that can cover the whole field in any depth.&nbsp; &quot;Syd&quot; refers to E.A. Sydenham&#039;s &quot;The Coinage of the Roman Republic&quot;, &quot;Sear&quot; is David R. Sear&#039;s &quot;Roman Coins and Their Values&quot;, and &quot;Craw&quot; is M.H. Crawford&#039;s &quot;Roman Republican Coinage&quot;.&nbsp; All are standard catalogues for Roman Republican coins (Sear is the most recent, and also covers the Imperial period).&nbsp; The numbers are the type numbers in the given catalogues.&nbsp; I think the best general introduction to ancient numismatics is the &quot;Ancient Coin Collecting&quot; series by Wayne Sayles.&nbsp; Volume I is a general overview, while other volumes cover Greek, Roman, etc. in more detail.&nbsp; If you are getting interested in ancient coins, I would strongly recommend buying volume I of Sayles, then going from there to read about particular sub-areas that are of most interest to you.&nbsp; Good luck, and please check back if you want help in a specific area, or just to chat about ancient coins in general.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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