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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2270903, member: 19463&quot;]There is a book I like <b>Collecting Greek Coins</b> by John Anthony (not our John Anthony).&nbsp; What I liked about it was it was not a catalog with numbers and prices but a survey of what the author found to be neat about Greek Coins.</p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1447102744&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=collecting+greek+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1447102744&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=collecting+greek+coins" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1447102744&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=collecting+greek+coins</a></p><p>Amazon has two reviews from customers.&nbsp; You should recognize both names from this list.</p><p>I wish someone would write a book like that about Romans.&nbsp; Anthony realized that Greek coins do not lend themselves well to set collecting and showed other ways.&nbsp; One chapter, for example, showed coins that related in some way to Homer&#039;s Odyssey (places, boats, monsters etc.).&nbsp; A Roman version might have chapters on crazy men, kid rulers or wars.&nbsp;&nbsp; I once knew a retired collector of means who went for sports on coins.&nbsp; His best coin was an aureus with the Circus Maximus but he had a complete set of the Roman coins showing gladiators.&nbsp; I&#039;ll never abandon my specialty in &#039;coins I like&#039;&nbsp; but I will also continue to expand on my coins of Septimius Severus from Eastern mints of which my several hundred denarii qualify only as this list&#039;s second best gathering of the type.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are thousands of ways to do this hobby.&nbsp; Some of us have over ten specialties already and may add another any time now.&nbsp; Enjoy the way you choose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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