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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2945061, member: 40017&quot;]I suspect the topic is too big for any one book to do it justice! There may be the odd &quot;coffee table&quot; book that will talk loosely about the history of coinage across the world and provide a few pictures of good examples, but that hardly qualifies as a guide. You would constantly be finding coins that are not mentioned at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best fairly comprehensive guides for modern coins (1600 to date) are the Krause books (Standard Catalogues of Coins), one for each century from 1600. These are quite expensive though and are big (think old style telephone directories). You may be able to pick up back issues reasonably cheaply at a coin store or online.</p><p><br /></p><p>The alternative really is to home in on which countries or regions or types of coins you find interesting and go for books on them. Posting here will get recommendations for any given topic. (For instance, if you said &quot;British Coins&quot; I would point you to the Spinks &quot;Coins of England and the United Kingdom&quot;, which comes out each year.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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