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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 951186, member: 19463&quot;]I love the Tye book (Early World Coins and Early Weight Standards) but it is rarely a book to base exact ID&#039;s upon. It is more a way to find where a coin fits in the big picture of coinage. For example it shows about a dozen punchmarked Mauryans as always selected as the common ones likely to show up including the one I posted above. It does not really equip a reader to decide if they have that coin or just something similar. My coin is listed as 5 mark &#039;period VI&#039; with no suggested ruler name except for a change in GH reference numbers, the coin before and after have the same data. There are many sections of Tye where I feel the ID assistance is more well done than in punchmarks. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The really nice thing about Tye is that you can often take a coin that you know absolutely nothing about and figure out, for example, that it is from a certain time and place that you can research elsewhere using the keyworks provided. Since he uses the common coins as examples this further research often turns out to be just confirming that your coin is a match rather than some rare variety.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Jital book is completely different but by the same author.&nbsp; I recommend it also if you like Jitals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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