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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 1672631, member: 44316&quot;]I use many reference works, but this question was about the ones we use most. So, first is perhaps Sear &quot;Roman Coins and Their Values&quot; Volume I, which is nearly complete for Roman Republican. Then Sear&#039;s &quot;Byzantine Coins and Their Values,&quot; which is very close to complete for Byzantine coins. Then Sear&#039;s &quot;Greek Coins and Their Values,&quot; which is nowhere near complete for Greek coins, but gets the ball rolling. I follow up with Crawford from Republican, both RIC and BMC for Roman, BMC Greek and SNG Danish for Greek, and Dumbarton Oaks and Grierson for Byzantine. </p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend Sear&#039;s &quot;Roman Coins and Their Values&quot; 4th edition for getting started. It is compact and still useful.&nbsp; </p><p>I could cite a dozen other titles I have used this weekend alone, but this thread was not about depth. The internet is great and will get you rather far on almost any coin topic, but real depth (and depth is a lot of fun) still resides in books. </p><p><br /></p><p>I recommend some reference books on this page:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/numis/learnmore.html</a> </p><p>I list some catalog references by theme on this page:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html</a></p><p>That is still a work in progress, but gives you some idea of the resources a specialist would want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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