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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8082611, member: 118780&quot;]Thought I&#039;d start a thread for your favorite (coin/history) related books you&#039;ve read this year!</p><p><br /></p><p>The following are ones I&#039;ve completed, in no particular order.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently picked up several Phoenician coins and I wanted to learn more about its people. This is a good guide, though extremely biased. A lot of what he writes is controversial, so it needs to be balanced with other papers.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403766[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I found this useful for learning more about the Athenian coinage, though I was a bit disappointed with this book. I felt the other (Hellenistic) book was more engaging and several of my questions (about imitative coins and the emergency coinage) were only touched on lightly.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403772[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This was a much better book, maybe because it covers the time period I focus on. Definitely a good introductory book on the era.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403774[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Not a book to pick up lightly or curl up for a nice afternoon read, this must be among the all-time most influential history books. It took me awhile to get through it, but I&#039;m glad I did. I especially loved how Gibbon wasn&#039;t afraid to give his opinion about things.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403775[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I picked this one up based on recommendations here, and to be honest - though interesting - it really isn&#039;t something I&#039;d typically read. This is more of an &quot;art history&quot; book than history. It definitely gives me a perspective when I see Roman busts in a museum, but I wouldn&#039;t recommend it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403780[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The dialog is clunky, but the history is well-researched and, after a slow start, it does flow and become gripping. This is a great take on a little-known person who nearly stopped Alexander.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403782[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And, of course, perhaps the best book on the era after Alexander the Great. This is how history books should be written. It&#039;s gripping and tries its best to be historically accurate. Party tip: drink every time he mentions Eumenes.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403783[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of the first books I read, since I was curious what was so special about the first 12 Caesars that everyone has to have them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403785[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I picked this up right after finishing Gibbon, and was interested based on the dual aspects of being partly based during the Siege of Istanbul, as well as the connection with my favorite playwright Aristophanes.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403786[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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