Roman Silver Coins - A Price Guide, from Rotographic.

Roman Silver Coins - A Price Guide by Richard Plant Following on from the success of the base metal version (also on ebay), this is another great little book for the novice collector, or just anyone interested in Roman coins.

Low resolution screen-shot of page 42 showing the Denarii of Antonius Pius (struck while he was alive). Notice the illustrations of different head types and the fully readable legends. All of the coins have unique reference numbers, and in the latest version the prices are in both GBP and USD.

A title from www.rotographic.com

• Current market values in GBP and USD for Fine or Very Fine grades from c211BC - 476AD
• Hundreds of accurate line drawings of most coin types
• Notes of the historical figures and gods that appear on the coins
• A list of 3rd - 6th Century Mint town markings
• Information about how to clean Roman Silver Coins
• Historical notes of coinage changes and metal types
• Unique reference numbers for each coin
• Includes values for common barbaric types
• Information on Roman coin grading
• High quality card laminated jacket

This book is priced at a very reasonable £5.95 (EUR8.75/US$10.70) and taking advantage of cheaper postage for books, postage is from £1.00 to UK/Europe or US$7.00 to the USA/Canada/Australasia or rest of World.

It's a small A5 book (21 x 15cm) and is especially handy to take to shops, coin meetings, boot sales or other places where it isn't practical to take a giant heavy book. 

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2nd Edition, published in September 2006:

Roman Silver Coins - A Price Guide. Published by Rotographic of London.

Following on from the successful 'Roman Base Metal Coins - A Price Guide', this slightly bigger book provides the same information for the Silver coins of the whole period in which the Romans were the worlds top civilisation (debatable perhaps, but certainly Europe's top civilisation!).

'Roman Silver Coins - A Price Guide' contains current market values in GBP and USD for the vast majority of Roman Silver coins used in the Republic, Imperial Empire and breakaway usurper Empires, as well as the later divided East and West Empires. It also covers very base silver and silvered base metal coins.

With market values listed by type, known varieties listed or shown, it really is the best value paperback on Roman base metal Coins.

The book is written by Reverend Richard Plant, and in keeping with all the Rotographic titles, it provides plenty of valuations and information to help you catalogue your collection or just to make interesting reading.

Part of the Author's preface reads like this:

'This is meant to be a book for the ordinary collector, or for people just developing an interest in Roman Silver Coins. For this reason it has been made as simple as possible.

Such a reader, I believe, wants to know two things about his (or her) coin; which Emperor minted it and roughly how much it is worth. On the whole the obverse portrait will, therefore, be more important than the Allegorical figure - or whatever is on the reverse. Though comparatively few reverses are catalogued, I have tried to illustrate all the obverses I have seen for Imperial coins.

The Republican period has been a headache to catalogue - I feel that the usual way of listing by family name is extremely difficult for the non-expert, so I have tried a different method. Perhaps my readers will tell me if this is any better! I am sorry that I was unable to list every Republican coin. I only hope that the selection I have offered represents most of the coins that most collectors are likely to come across'

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