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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 1807758, member: 57463"]Clearly, John, this is not a book to be used to authenticate or attribute a coin.  It might be more for someone whose interests are Biblical rather than numismatical, but for the fact that Bressett takes a secular approach to the Revealed Word of God.  For the active numismatist, David Hendin's Guide to Biblical Coins would be the book to work with. As I suggested above, if you have young relatives with some interest or potential interest in numismatics, perhaps through US coins, this could be a nice present.  That said, thinking of my own interests at 10 or 12 - dinosaurs, astronomy, microscope - I am not sure that I would have looked through this more than a few times.  It's hard to say...  My family actually sent us to a summer Bible school for three years in a row, but all it taught me was the relativity of religious experience.  Many years later, I gave a "Coins of the Bible" talk with show-and-tell items to a local church group and my wife and I attended services there for a month or so.  We never went to church before, and had been married in her parents' living room -- by a coin dealer, as it turned out...  But that's another story.[/QUOTE]