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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 2620520, member: 80804&quot;]I&#039;d like to put in a plug for a book which I don&#039;t believe has been mentioned and can be very useful for the student/collector of LRB&#039;s - &quot;Late Roman Bronze Coinage&quot; by Carson, Hill and Kent (also known as &quot;LRBC&quot; or &quot;CHK&quot;)</p><p>This is a slim volume originally in the same size-format as RIC so it would be unobtrusive on the shelf with RIC volumes. In fact, for a lot of years, before RIC vols VIII &amp; X were published, it was considered a semi-official volume of the RIC.&nbsp; The learning curve for how to interpret the rows and columns of codes for various features is a bit challenging. I am put in mind, somewhat, of the background of cascading columns of characters in the opening title sequence of The Matrix, thinking back on what I thought the first time I opened it and tried to figure out what was going on - it was hard to find for many years but has been re-issued in inexpensive cardcover format in recent years.</p><p>Another book I get a fair amount of use out of is David Van Meter&#039;s &quot;The Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins&quot; (this is possibly the most &quot;bang-for-the-buck&quot; deal in the world of fairly recent ancient coin books). When trying to think of quick reference points - such as the dates of various consecutive and concurrent rulers - it&#039;s somewhat of a toss up whether the first book I reach for will be Van Meter or the 1988 4th edition of David Sear&#039;s Roman Coins and Their Values. Another volume used almost daily is &quot;Greek Coin Types and Their Identification&quot; by Richard Plant. Well worn (nearly worn out, truth to tell) copies of those three are literally at my elbow, on the same stack of shelving that contains my sets of RIC, RSC, Sear Millennium, Lindgren, Vols I, II &amp; VI of RPC, and the several SNG&#039;s and other specialized works that get regular use like Emmett for Alexandria, Spaer and Houghton for Seleukids, Icard for legend fragments, Failmetzger for fine details on the LRB&#039;s. Gobl for Sasanian, de Morgan for Elymais, Sydenham on Republican, Bellinger on the Troad &amp; Hellespont. I could go on naming specialist volumes, but you get the idea, I&#039;m sure.</p><p>Of course, since I was collecting decades before the internet was a thing, I am probably less likely than most to turn to on-line references as a first resort, but I find a few of them crucial to the cataloging work I do - despite being primarily oriented to the use of books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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