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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2523962, member: 76086&quot;]This is a truly rare thing for a new collector to ask.&nbsp; In this day and age, not many bother with books and just buy the coins figuring everything is free on the internet.&nbsp; Some of the really old references are available as a free download from Google (but they are quite dated and a lot of them are over 100 years old).&nbsp; What one should get depends on what you are interested in and how much you want to learn.&nbsp; They will be more than your $4 coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER] already mentioned a couple good ones.&nbsp; Any old version of Sear is good, but the numbering will be off, some dating and mint changes, etc, but all the previous versions are excellent beginning information.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, try the Ancient Coin Collecting series by Wayne Sayles.&nbsp; I think there are 7 volumes, about $20 each covering most aspects and cultures.&nbsp; Superb beginning books.&nbsp; You can probably still get them from Wayne himself.&nbsp; I wont give out his e-mail, but go to vcoins.com and look for his store and you can e-mail him directly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coinage and History of the Roman Empire by David Vagi is in two volumes, about $25 each.&nbsp; The work never took hold as most prefer the Sear books but they also contain a lot of great information and are informative and fun to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>You might also check out The Roman Emperors, by Michael Grant.&nbsp; Not a coin book but he constantly refers to coins in his huge series of books on history.&nbsp; This is a good general biographical work of each emperor.&nbsp; You can get a copy on Amazon for a penny plus shipping! Why NOT buy it?!</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many, many more, some general works, but I would not recommend you buy anything in depth until you specialize as those works can cost anywhere from $75 to many thousands.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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