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© 2004-2006 Andrew McCabe. If you've
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Comprehensive Catalogues
Auction and Museum Catalogues
Introductory Handbooks
History
Coins and History
Hoards and Archaeology
Minting and Money
Period-specific studies
Provincial and Imitative
Books and Websites about Books
RR_Bronze_Rarities
Bibliographies, Book reviews & Numismatic History
Essential
Ancient Coin Reference Reviews, Dennis Kroh, 1993
Views very similar to my own on
Republican coins whilst covering the entire ancient spectrum.
Websites for finding coin books
I recommend the following. Waddell (www.coin.com) has a nice website and helpful
information on books, e.g. contents tables and commentaries. Abebooks is the
most useful of the book-finding sites as it has “sort by newly listed”
function, absent from other such sites. Spink lists all its secondhand stock on
Abebooks (new books can be found through the main Spink site). Papyrus also
lists on Abebooks. I have read much credible negative feedback on Papyrus and I
do not recommend them. Oxbow (UK) and David Brown (US) have the best selection
of history books.
http://www.spink.com/departments/books.asp
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/ane
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/jwalker
http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/charlesdavis
Useful
Select Numismatic Bibliography, Elvira
Clain-Stefanelli, New York, 1965, and Numismatic
Bibliography, Elvira Clain-Stefanelli, 1984.
The classic
bibliography, its only drawback is that it covers too much ground (all of
coinage!) and inevitably the Roman Republic listings, whilst comprehensive,
have little commentary. The earlier ‘Select’ version is more focused thus
interesting to browse however it predates the Crawford revolution.
Numismatics an ancient science Elvira Clain-Stefanelli, Washington 1965
Interesting
review of numismatics though rather academically focused (as distinct from a focus on collectors or archaeologists).
Not Useful
Coins & Medals, A Select Biblioraphy, Philip Grierson, 1954
All the books
referenced within are outdated.