Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 91025, member: 283&quot;]I&#039;m happy to help. We all start off knowing the same after all. What we learn comes from experience and books. I&#039;m pretty ignorant concerning wine making, and if it weren&#039;t for the distance i&#039;d happily come to a deal with you over swapping coin data for the occasional bottle or three!!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, when it comes to world coinage your options for decent reference material is very limited...as in Krause Mischler&#039;s Standard Catalogue of World Coins. The problem is, there is a volume for each century 1601 -1700, 1701-1800, 1801-1900, then 1901 - present time. They are big reference books and not light bed time reading. Now, these items are going to cost you the going rates (check out Amazon) for the bang up to date ones.......but you can fairly readily buy earlier editions *for next to nothing*. For those setting out on their world coin quest I would very much suggest that they arm themselves with the books, but that there is sound merit in buying the `bargain books&#039; type old stock or even second hand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatics is an immense subject. You never quite realise quite how big the subject matter is until you get deeper into it. Krause is King for a generalist approach to post mediaeval world coinage. There is none better. If however you find yourself focussing on any certain country, period, ruler etc....that&#039;s the time to really look at more specific reference materials.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in