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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 24603206, member: 81887&quot;]Well, my own numismatic library is threadbare by comparison, but here&#039;s a view of the single shelf it occupies:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563221[/ATTACH]</p><p>And we can look at each shelf individually.&nbsp; The bottom shelf:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563222[/ATTACH]</p><p>Key works here are a full set of Michael Mitchener&#039;s &quot;Oriental Coins and Their Values&quot; volumes (Ancient and Classical World, Non-Islamic States and Colonial Series, and World of Islam), the first three volumes of Roman Imperial Coinage, and Krause&#039;s catalogues of modern world coinage and paper money. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563223[/ATTACH]</p><p>The second shelf is, broadly, coins of Asia.&nbsp; The left side features Ancient Persia and includes the Sunrise Collection and key works on Parthian (Sellwood, Shore), Sasanian (Gobl), and Persis (van&#039;t Haaff).&nbsp; Next are some works on Islamic coins (including Album, and Plant&#039;s &quot;Arabic Coins and How to Read Them&quot;), Indian coins, Hendin&#039;s guide to Biblical coinage, Plant&#039;s invaluable &quot;Greek, Semitic, and Asiatic Coins and How to Read Them&quot;.&nbsp; Finally there are books on Chinese and other &quot;cash&quot;-style coinages.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563224[/ATTACH]</p><p>The third shelf is mainly &quot;classical&quot; (Greek and Roman) ancient numismatics.&nbsp; There&#039;s a five-volume set of Sear (2 volumes Greek, 1 volume [4th edition] Roman, Greek Imperial, and Byzantine), Barclay Head&#039;s &quot;Historia Nummorum&quot;, and Stevenson&#039;s very useful &quot;Dictionary of Roman Coins.&quot;&nbsp; At the right are some more general books.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563225[/ATTACH]</p><p>The left of the fourth shelf features Fuld&#039;s catalogs of US Civil War tokens, a &quot;Red Book&quot; of US coins, a catalogue of post-WWI German notgeld tokens, and the most popular guidebook (in Italy) to Italian coins.&nbsp; The right side is yet more various books.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some interesting books included (not necessarily the most useful, just interesting for some reason):</p><p>-&quot;Tesoros del Gabinete Numismatico&quot;: A large-format catalogue of 100 selected coins, medals, and other numismatic objects from the collection of the National Archeological Museum of Spain.&nbsp; Features beautiful color photos of each item, with informative text (in Spanish).&nbsp; I bought this at the Museum in Madrid, and it is quite a satisfying souvenir.</p><p>-&quot;Coin-Collecting in Northern India, by Charles J. Rodgers, Honorary Numismatist to the Government of India&quot;.&nbsp; Published in Allahabad, 1894.&nbsp; Long since surpassed by more modern catalogs, but fascinating as a snapshot of the hobby at the time, and a relic of the British Raj.</p><p>-&quot;Counterfeit, Mis-struck and Unofficial U.S. Coins&quot;, Don Taxay.&nbsp; Lots of great stories here, including unauthorized emissions from the US Mint, important forgeries, and fascinating characters like C. Wyllys Betts (a Yale student who created several fantasy types of US Colonial coins that fooled some experts).</p><p>-&quot;Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatic: How to Get the Most out of Coin Collecting&quot;, Frank S. Robinson.&nbsp; The famous coin dealer shares lots of good advice, as well as plenty of stories from his collecting and selling career.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that&#039;s a useful account.&nbsp; If anyone wants to know more about one of the books shown, just ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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