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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 867490, member: 19463&quot;]I forgot to mention that there is what I consider a good book for beginners (like me) in early world coins.&nbsp; <b>Early World Coins and Early Weight Standards</b> by Robert Tye is a very edited overview of coins that circulated in Europe and Asia before the advent of machine made coins. Its catalog section only has about 5 pages of ancient Greek and Roman and a half page of medieval English so those who think those are the only coins worth collecting will want to avoid the book like the plague.&nbsp; More of the coins are common and selected because they played a part in history but that includes, for example, five listings of low end English gold.&nbsp; Listings are coded according to price so looking through the book for things marked &#039;L&#039; will guide the cheap collector to his coins.&nbsp; In addition to the catalog section, there is a lot of very good text explaining the economics of the world as it related to coins.&nbsp; It is more for the student of numismatics than for the collector trying blindly to fill his penny book.&nbsp; The book was published in the UK but is available in the US (about $30) if you look hard enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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