NEW BOOK: AORTA: A GUIDE FOR THE ROMAN COIN COLLECTOR

Collectors with an interest in ancient Roman coinage will be pleased to learn of the availability of new title "Aorta: A Guide for the Roman Coin Collector" (ISBN: 9780976466437). This reference work is a low-cost version of the highly acclaimed second edition of the Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins and is slated to go on sale this November 15th from publisher Dirty Old Books.

The book documents 500 years of Roman history neatly compressed into twice as many pages and lists all their coins down to the most obscure issues of minor Caesars and their family members while providing each their own chapter complete with a biography and photos of their likenesses. Clear photographs of their coins are provided at the end of each of these chapters to help the reader identify and date any Roman coin along with much other data.

With information presented in a modern layout and easy reading, even those who are not drawn to classical numismatics are sure to find themselves engaged in the fascinating stories.

Aorta features: - A fully comprehensive catalog of Roman coins in one handy book
- Covers the period from Octavian to the fall of Rome in 476 AD
- - Modern, easy to use system for identifying all your Roman Imperial coins
- - Biographies on over 100 emperors, empresses and other imperial members
- - The latest market pricing
- - Thousands of coin and other photographs
- - Includes ERIC II 2011 corrigenda
- - Concise and portable at only 6.5"x5" and just over 1lb.
- - Most affordable Roman coin catalog by far!

Order today with your credit card or Paypal from dirtyoldcoins.com

$39.95. 1st ed. November 2011. Paperback 1,021pp. Limited first printing of 1,000 copies. ISBN 9780976466437. Quantity discounts available.

Order information available on the publisher's website a www.dirtyoldbooks.com/aorta-roman-coin-book.html

About the Author

Rasiel Suarez is owner and co-founder of Dirty Old Coins, LLC, a company founded in 2002 with the vision of bringing the hobby of ancient coin collecting to a broad demographic largely unaware that owning genuine ancient coins was both possible and affordable. 2005 saw the release of his first book, The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins, which broke new ground in making the subject much more accessible to those entering the hobby.

By 2007 the company had sold over one million Roman coins by way of retail-ready coin kits that taught thousands of families how to restore these ancient artifacts using the same methods museums use. His success as an author and recognized expert in the field of Roman numismatics was cemented by the release of the second edition of his Encyclopedia in the Fall of 2010. An avid traveler and photographer, Rasiel lives with his family in Olympia, Washington.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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