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<p>[QUOTE="Fugio1, post: 3996509, member: 89970"][USER=109905]@Spargrodan[/USER] welcome to the ancients forum. I am also very interested in the 2nd Punic War, during which the origin of the denarius occurred. You chose well by obtaining Crawford as it prevails today as the standard work on the coinage of the Roman Republic. He goes into much detail in the Roman Punic war issues so you have the best resource available for that. I constantly reference it to the point that I've had to have my copy professionally repaired by a book binder.</p><p><br /></p><p>A very readable numismatic historical overview is done by Christopher Howgego in his book "Ancient History From Coins". Many of the must-have books on ancient coins are long on catalog entries and short on interesting reading. Howgego's book is a pleasant and informative easy chair read.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fugio1, post: 3996509, member: 89970"][USER=109905]@Spargrodan[/USER] welcome to the ancients forum. I am also very interested in the 2nd Punic War, during which the origin of the denarius occurred. You chose well by obtaining Crawford as it prevails today as the standard work on the coinage of the Roman Republic. He goes into much detail in the Roman Punic war issues so you have the best resource available for that. I constantly reference it to the point that I've had to have my copy professionally repaired by a book binder. A very readable numismatic historical overview is done by Christopher Howgego in his book "Ancient History From Coins". Many of the must-have books on ancient coins are long on catalog entries and short on interesting reading. Howgego's book is a pleasant and informative easy chair read.[/QUOTE]
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