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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3170216, member: 84744&quot;]I like the Tye book very much and heartily second Doug&#039;s recommendation.&nbsp; (I think I got it from Frank Robinson, who sent it up to Canada at a reasonable cost.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the same purposes of discovering new things &amp; learning about them as well as general coverage, I can also recommend two other books: <i>Coins of the World</i> by R.A.G. Carson, and <i>The Coin Atlas </i>by Cribb, Cook, and Carradice.&nbsp; Both are available used for very reasonable prices through <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.abebooks.com/" rel="nofollow">abebooks</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Coins of the World</i> (1962) is a truly impressive undertaking that goes into rather a lot of detail on ancient Greek coinage (100 pages), ancient Roman coinage (90 pages), medieval to modern European coinage (200+ pages), and the New World (45 pages).&nbsp; Rather less detail is given for Australasia (4 pages), Africa (10 pages), the &quot;Near East&quot; (mostly Islamic, 30 pages), India (40 pages), and the &quot;Far East&quot; (25 pages).&nbsp; Over a thousand coins are illustrated in the B&amp;W plates.&nbsp; The book is organized geographically and historically, with an emphasis on numismatically significant changes.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit dry in places, but there is a truly remarkable range of information here.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The Coin Atlas</i> (my edition is 1990) is much more of a coffee table book and has a lot less detail, but it has lots of nice photos and maps and there&#039;s no skimping on particular regions.&nbsp; It&#039;s organized by (roughly) modern country, where the history of the coinage is detailed in a few pages.&nbsp; For example: Norway gets 2 pages, Spain gets 8 or 9, Turkey get 8, Burma gets 2, China gets 9, Libya gets 3, Canada gets 3.&nbsp; There are a lot more modern coins in this book than in the Carson book.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the generalist needs all three. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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