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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 6307497, member: 19463&quot;]Whitting is a favorite of mine, too, as is Bruck.&nbsp; Neither is a catalog of types but a book to help the reader understand the coins and appreciate why they are collectable.&nbsp; Bruck is based on the realization that there are a thousand late Roman coins that are part legend or in less than perfect condition but that there is a lot to be told about them even if they are missing things like the mintmarks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Whitting is joined in the &quot;World of Numismatics&quot; series by volumes on Greek and Roman coins by Jenkins and Sutherland respectively.&nbsp; I enjoyed them all and both the photos and text are worth study.&nbsp; These books all suggest the slightly out of date theory that ancients coins are to be appreciated for more than their profit potential.&nbsp; There are several other &#039;coffee table&#039; style books but most strike me as more efforts to sell books than to spread the love of the subjects as do the &quot;World of Numismatics&quot; series.&nbsp; I doubt there will be many more works of this type now that we live in the age of electrons.&nbsp; Even though many were written before some of us were born, there is a lot of worthwhile meat on those old bones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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