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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2617283, member: 44316&quot;]My most-used books are the first three volumes of Sear (but not four and five), all of RIC, all of BMC, and Failmezger &quot;Roman Bronze Coins: From Paganism to Christianity, AD 294-364&quot;. Because I like late Roman coins, I use &quot; Late Roman Coins&quot; (in the Dumbarton Oaks collection) by Grierson and Mays quite a bit. As well as extensive photographic coverage, it has a great deal of commentary. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those are books that are excellent for looking up coins. If you want a general overview so you understand the big picture, there are other books which deserve to be read, several times. There are many volumes of introductions to coinage (as opposed to just coins). A great one is &quot;Coinage in the Roman World&quot; by Andrew Burnett (formerly Curator of Coins at the BM, now deputy director). It is not large, but well written with 187 important types illustrated. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Roman Coins&quot; by C.H.W. Sutherland is a large book very well illustrated (572 photos, enlarged, most two photos per coin but a few with only one when it is a special reverse) with commentary on the development of the coinage. You won&#039;t use it to look up coins, but to read about Roman coins in general during the various time periods. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many other books I could recommend, if, say, you wanted to know about coins in Roman Britain, or how the Roman economy worked, or how scholars use coins to study history, or lists of historical events and the coins that reference those events, or the coinage of the first century, or any number of other topics. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you can tear yourself away from the computer and the process of buying coins, you could sit by the fire and <b>read</b> an enjoyable and informative book and learn a lot you didn&#039;t know abut Roman coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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