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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2523951, member: 74282&quot;]There are many, many books on ancient coins out there. Many are references which, while in some ways are similar to the redbook, can quickly get very expensive and are of limited use to beginners, especially in the age of sites like WildWinds. A few books that I&#039;d recommend for a beginner are Howgego&#039;s &quot;Ancient History from Coins&quot; and Sear&#039;s older single volume &quot;Roman Coins and Their Values&quot;. Howgego&#039;s is a good intro to learning history from coins and Sear&#039;s book is a good way to get exposed to a large number of Roman coins, as well as some background on the types, and to get ideas of their relative values without breaking the bank. Sayles&#039; &quot;Classical Deception&quot; and Hendin&#039;s &quot;Not Kosher&quot; are good books on counterfeits as well. Neither are exactly the book I want on counterfeits, which would be a much more in depth study of the modern methods used and their detection(neither book goes too deep on the subject) but I don&#039;t think this book I want exists, so these are the best I&#039;ve found so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you enjoy reading, I&#039;d be remiss to neglect mentioning <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/" rel="nofollow">Doug Smith&#039;s</a> and <a href="http://esty.ancients.info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info" rel="nofollow">Warren Esty&#039;s</a> ancient coin websites. Both are full of a lot of good information and observations on ancients and are a good way to get exposed to a wide variety of types as well as multiple facets of collecting(I.e. interesting mint errors and variations).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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