Emperors and assassins, owls and turtles, gods and goddesses, brave heroes and villainous rogues all of these and more await you among the 100 Greatest Ancient Coins. In this beautifully illustrated second edition of his award-winning book, Harlan J. Berk, one of the world s best-known ancient-coin dealers, takes you on a personal guided tour of the numismatic antiquities of Greece, Rome, the Eastern Roman (so-called Byzantine) empire, and other parts of the ancient world. The first edition of 100 Greatest Ancient Coins earned the Numismatic Literary Guild s prestigious award for Best Specialized Book on World Coins. New in the second
Collectors will be immersed in the fascinating world of ancient
Coffee-table-size, Hardcover, 144 pages, full color, with enlarged photographs and stories for every coin.
I was reluctant to buy the second edition of a book that is more of a fun, coffee table book of "best of" ancient coins than a serious reference book. After all, what could there be to add to a second edition of a book like this? I was pleasantly surprised. The second edition complements the first and actually includes information I hadn't been aware of previously. This book is well worth getting even for those of us who already have the first edition. The photography is, of course, beautiful as it is for all of the book in this Whitman Publications series of "100 best".