Most Roman Coin Books are expensive, but for the most common coins found or purchased a series of books by Richard Plant are cost-effective, and a brilliant way of identifying most silver Roman coins, or if its base metal coins, both have an excellent amount of information, either within the book or by pointing you in the right direction, Greenlight Publications have a vast array of books on everything not least of all the roman coins detectorists find……
Shown below are both the Roman silver coin books, the new edition on the left, with the Colosseum, whilst on the right, with a blue front cover, is the older edition book. The reason for showing this is because both books are often sold side by side with very little difference in content, so go for the newer one where possible…
Shown below is an expert from Greenlight Publication about their new book on Roman Coins…
By far the most common coins found by detectorists are the Romano-British copies of the third and fourth centuries. They are often described as ‘barbarous radiates’ or, even more disparagingly, as ‘Roman grots’. These little bronze offerings have a charm of their own and deserve more than to be condemned to a detectorist’s junk box or ignored by numismatists and archaeologists as being unimportant. The purpose of this book is to highlight some of the more interesting copies from Roman Britain and to show that they, too, tell a story. They form miniature pieces of art made by local British artisans for use by the Romano-British population.
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