A broadly-illustrated overview of the contemporary state of Greco-Roman numismatic scholarship.

Images of the Illustrious is an introduction and a guide to the numismatic scholarship of the Renaissance--the coin collections and illustrated coin-books produced by humanists and artists of the sixteenth century. Ancient Greek and Roman coins were the most abundant and portable remains of antiquity throughout Renaissance Europe, and were avidly collected as treasures, studied as documents, exchanged as gifts, admired as art, venerated as relics, and cherished as talismans of antique virtue. The ubiquitous presence of these coins, the author argues, made the lost world of the ancients accessible, comprehensible, and concrete to all literate Europeans, and encouraged an attitude toward history as a series of discontinuous scenes and events, driven by the ambitious and self-seeking individuals whose striking faces appear on the coins. Illustrated with many examples of the elegant art of the Renaissance coin-books,Images of the Illustrious ends with a comprehensive descriptive bibliography of the sixteenth-century numismatists and their books.

Rusty Goe's new three-volume set, The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, provides a time-capsule glimpse of all the knowledge available for discovery about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that have survived from that place leading up to the 150th anniversary (2020) of the mint's opening in January 1870. Just about anything anyone would want to know about the mint and its coins can be found in these three volumes. Three hardback volumes, 8.5" x 11" in dimensions. The page count for all three volumes is approximately 2,500. Color images fill numerous pages; at least one zoomed image (obverse and reverse) of all 111 date-denominations with the "CC" mintmark. Historical Setting narratives are included for every year of the Carson City Mint's coinmaking years (1870 - 1893). Coin Commentary sections provide extensive studies of all Carson City silver and gold date-denominations; surviving population data, pedigrees, pricing, and auction appearances are all updated as of year-end 2018. This three-volume set provides all that everyone wants to know about the Carson City Mint and its coins. The Confident Carson City Coin Collector will serve as the definitive reference work about the Carson City Mint and its coins for decades to come.