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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 3127702, member: 44357&quot;]I may have missed a book at some point but I do find it surprising that there isn&#039;t an accessible &quot;Red Book&quot;-esque book for ancients. Covering every type would obviously be impractical but I don&#039;t think that&#039;s what new collectors want: they want an overview and a rough level of insight into what&#039;s available.</p><p><br /></p><p>David Vagi&#039;s recent series of articles on CoinWeek are something along the lines of what I&#039;m thinking, limiting the overall list to maybe ~200 major types (see <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ngc-ancients-classic-greek-coins-part-i/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ngc-ancients-classic-greek-coins-part-i/" rel="nofollow">https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ngc-ancients-classic-greek-coins-part-i/</a> ). There are 137 coins in the major US typeset and something similar in scope would be manageable for a new ancient collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect this is why Harlan Berk&#039;s &quot;100 Greatest&quot; book is so well received but it is biased. It would instead be useful for a book to be written of the &quot;200 Ancient Coins You Should Know&quot;; not the impossible-to-collect rarities that exist by a single example but the major types that are accessible and interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, further chapters could be written on the rarities/famous coins/etc. but those aren&#039;t the ones that will grab and keep the interest of new collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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