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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24638818, member: 26430"]One suggestion: get a copy of Sear's Greek Coins & Their Values &/or some of the popular Greek books by G.F. Hill & other authors (like Head or Gardner, or more recent ones like Carradice & Price) who used the British Museum collection to illustrate an overview of Greek coins (or other ancient areas). It's much more rewarding when you can recognize the individual famous specimens on display from your reading, and/or have in mind which specific coins & types to seek out. One moment I remember from when I was about 8 or 10 years old was seeing the Athens Dekadrachm on display & recognizing it as the "plate coin" illustrated in Sear. I spent so much time looking at it, that 35 years later it still opened to the exact page! [ATTACH=full]1567595[/ATTACH] I would bring a few of those books along on my visit. Also, out of curiosity: Why do you want to go to the extra trouble of arranging to see stuff that's NOT on public display? Do you have a specific research question to address? Unless I had unlimited time AND something specific I "needed" to see, I would just spend my time looking at all the public ancient coin exhibits. I haven't been there in a very long time, but as I recall, there was enough to keep one busy for hours or days without necessarily even seeing everything. From what I've heard more recently, that seems unchanged.[/QUOTE]