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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 24262, member: 57463&quot;]The dealer you want to know first is Allen G. Berman.&nbsp; He has written or edited several books.&nbsp; He is a recognized expert on Papal coinage.&nbsp; He also advertises in <i>The Celator</i> that he will sell you common (but nice) medieval silver coins for $8 each -- when you buy a dozen he throws in a copy of Walker&#039;s book.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first book you want is <i>Reading Medieval European Coins</i> by Ralph S. Walker and not surprisingly, Allen Berman is the publisher.&nbsp; The book lists new for under $10, usually only $6 or so.&nbsp; It is really a paperback booklet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you get serious, you will want <i>Price Guide to Medieval Coins in the Christian J. Thomsen Collection</i> by Alex G. Malloy (again published by Allen G. Berman.&nbsp; Berman was one of several contributors as well.)&nbsp; To make use of the price guide, you need the catalog.&nbsp; Kristian Eerslev&#039;s <i>Medieval Coins in the Christian J. Thomsen Collection</i>, Attic Books, Ltd., South Salem, New York, 1992. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Thomsen Collection was as close to &quot;definitive&quot; as it gets.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have an new interest in the coins of the medieval fairs.&nbsp; I am now looking for several books, one, a set of three by Poey d&#039;Avant, on Feudal French Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The medieval period is long (800 AD to 1450 AD) and complicated.&nbsp; There were hundreds of independent states and coinage often was produced under contact. To deal with this, the bankers of Florence invented the &quot;Pounds Shilling Pence&quot; system which had not much to do with coins per se but was a way to aggregate them by weight regardless of where they came from.&nbsp; So, this to say, that if it was a welter of confusion for them in their own time, we have more problems getting a handle on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My suggestion is to pick a very specific time and place.&nbsp; Realize that &quot;everyone&quot; wants a silver penny from Richard the Lionhearted.&nbsp; So, you have to resign yourself to that. And, oh, yes, lest I forget:</p><p>&quot;Æthelred was a mediæval king far from the Ægean Sea, or so the archæologists tell us.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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