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I you want to post the best book you have already gotten threw please fell free to do so. Maybe give others some good ideas.

TheGoonies1985

Is this book worth reading it was written in 1970 hence my question? It's 15$ so not expensive.

harasha

TheGoonies1985

What country do you collect? China?

harasha

Chinese cash, mostly Northern and Southern Song. Also Ming, with earlier Qing.

coinkat

My reading will likely lead to discussions that should be avoided here. So I will answer taking this in slightly different direction. We have Netflix - There was a release of a film entitled Dig that takes place in England prior to WW II in 1939. It is basically about the dig which unearthed an early Anglo-Saxon ship with various antiquities that were donated to the British Museum

bidask

I constantly refer to RESPLANDORES and numismaster for most of my reading .

Swampboy

A remarkable book I'm reading while I await grades on my Cuban coin submission.
It's Sunday so I only looked once to check on my sub today. 🥴

jimhopkins1919

I’m currently waiting on the above book to get to me. I’ve also read 10 or so books in the 1632 Ring of Fire book series in the last 6 months. It’s a great series if u enjoy European history and Fantasy fiction.

TheGoonies1985

Thanks for sharing guys hopefully more will do the same so we may find books we want that we did not know about.

TheGoonies1985

My book is not directly related to Mexico but South America in general but still enjoying it. Into it a few hours and is interesting. I have some that are 100% centered on Mexico will get to those after this one.

Stork

Hah! I rolled the dice and bought a self-pub book from eBay. Published by the son of a man who was in a group of a medical personnel who crashed in Albania, behind Nazi lines. There's other versions of the story, but what the hey. I had ebay bucks burning a hole in my pocket. Hardly riveting literature, but it does fit the topic.

WillieBoyd2

I am reading The East India Company, A History by Brian Gardner.

East India Company Madras Presidency Rupee, Alamgir II, Arcat, AH 1172 (AD 1759)
Silver, 27 mm, 11.64 gm, KM-415

These coins were struck at the Madras mint by the company from 1817 to 1835 under the name of the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II (Life: AD 1699-1759 Reign: AD 1754-1759).
This coin has the regnal year 6 which is around AD 1760.
The company issued these coins after the death of Alamgir II.

Obverse in Persian Arabic:
Aziz-ud-din Muhammad Alamgir, Emperor and fighter for Islam, Auspicious coin, 1172
Reverse in Persian Arabic:
Struck at Arcat in the year 6 of his reign associated with tranquil prosperity
Mintmark: Closed lotus (Madras)

BustDMs

Conquest of Old Mexico by Bernal Diaz, an original conquistador who was part of Cortez’s army. One of my favorite reads. A real eye opening account of the conquest from a grunts perspective. One of the few who survived the conquest and lived to see retirement in the new world.

The original draft was archived in The Archives of the Indies, a Spanish bureaucratic archive. It was found by a priest decades later and he published a sanitized version. Another researcher later rediscovered the original and after comparing it to the published version republished it more true to the original.

This story is likely the historical inspiration for the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where they store the Ark in the warehouse of crates.

BustDMs

The amazing story of how Pizarro conquered Peru using some of the same tactics Cortez used in Mexico. So good I’ve read it multiple times. Amazing!

BustDMs

A pair of stories about how disease has shaped human history.

The first, the Black Death in Europe was a seminal moment in the history of mankind.

The second about the yellow fever epidemic in the US explains the hardships of the first mint in Philadelphia and its relationship with Dr. Benjamin Rush.

Bailathacl

Presently reading this one.

Well written and wry, it posits some common connections between geography/time/ culture and the nurture of genius, e.g. Ancient Athens, Renaissance Florence, Silicon Valley. Probably not a coincidence that I’m bidding heavily on a few Ancient Greek coins in the current Frank Robinson auction.

Aside to Bangs DM: that Diaz del Castillo book is nothing short of amazing.

TheGoonies1985

This one arrived today from Amazon. Will take me a while to get threw the 1st book (my 1st post) then I will read this one.

Elmhurst

@KingOfMorganDollar said:
Is this book worth reading it was written in 1970 hence my question? It's 15$ so not expensive.

I read that for my college Latin American history class. Guess it worked, I'm moving to Uruguay in December.

TheGoonies1985

Starting this one this evening. Snowing and cold here so fireplace and coffee and a good snack. I don't collect Peru but still interested in learning about it.

TheGoonies1985

I own this one from the same author. Have yet to read it.

TheGoonies1985

Still need to pick up this one no more on amazon have to wait till they stock back up says one left but I tried ordering it and they don't have it.

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