Roman Base Metal Coins

by plant-richard-j, Christopher Henry Perkins (Editor)

This price guide is a book for the collector rather than the scholar and, as such, has to be pocket-sized and inexpensive. It assumes that the reader will be more interested in assigning a coin to its proper period or Emperor than in working out the meaning of the design on the reverse and, therefore, whilst most of the usual obverse portraits and legends are illustrated, the reverses are dealt with in a much more cursory manner. As an aid to identification, all illustrations are as close to life-sized as possible. Remember, that often Roman coins are not completely circular like modern coins. Further, not all Roman base-metal coins are included. This is a selection of the available material, including the vast majority of the coins the collector is likely to encounter in 'real life'.

84 pages, Paperback

First published March 10, 2009

Reviews

[Joe Sabet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Couldn’t even find one publication date in this little guide. Probably outdated pricing. Not sure why childish drawings were used instead of pictures. Very hard to discern the ordering and layout of pictures and denominations. Some useful but widely available info included like names of Roman Mints, grading coins, etc. Maybe the only interesting part to some readers was on collecting via a British theme; several pages of info here. Sear’s price guides or other more mainstream guides offer much more organized and useful information than this hodgepodge guide.