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Message:: [QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 2881702, member: 88829"]Hmmmm.  Thanks for the reading lists, Ed.  I took a quick look at the one for a general intro to Roman imperial, and must confess that they got a little sloppy.  Five of the entries for Intros and Surveys were missing the first letter of the names of the authors.<ul> <li>P. C. Kent, B. Overbeck, and A. U. Stylow, Die römische Münze (Munich, 1973).</li> <li>H. V. Sutherland, Roman Coins (London and New York, 1974).</li> <li>P. C. Kent, Roman Coins (London and New York, 1978). English version, with different text and slightly different illustrations, of Kent/Overbeck/Stylow.</li> <li>M. Burnett, Coinage in the Roman World (London, 1987). The most up-to-date and sensible of the lot, but unfortunately without bibliography of any kind.</li> <li>A. G. Carson, Coins of the Roman Empire (London, 1990). A chronological account combined with good chapters on technical questions.</li> </ul>JPC Kent, CHV Sutherland, AM Burnett, and RAG Carson. (Not that we're on a first name basis.)  Usable, but a bit careless. Still, I remember looking into the summer seminar when I was doing grad work.  Couldn't justify leaving my wife alone with two boys (one of whom is autistic) for another summer back then, when I had abandoned them for 8 weeks digging in Israel not long before.  She was the breadwinner, doing child care to pay the rent.[/QUOTE]