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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2524948, member: 19463&quot;]Thanks.&nbsp; I became interested in the concept when I got Robert Tye&#039;s book <b>Early Word Coins and Early Weight Standards</b>.&nbsp; He summarizes all Roman in 12 coins and Byzantine in 8 but it takes him 20 to do Islamic coins that strike me as all the same (text only) and at least as many to do cast Chinese.&nbsp; One thing Mr Tye and I do seem to agree on is the desirability of using common and important to the economy coins to represent a period.&nbsp; He does make some really strange choices like the Tetricus for late antoniniani but he did get me thinking about which coins really represent their times.&nbsp; A general collection done his way certainly frees one from the need to spend big money on coins that played no part in the economic history of the world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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