Coal tars have been used as feedstocks in order to find guiding principles for the preparation of the high quality pitch cokes. It was compared that the carbonization behavior and the properties of raw coal tars; CTE(Coefficient of Thermal Expansion) values and microtexture of cokes prepared from refined coal tars were also compared. The values of C/H atomic ratio of raw coal tars showed 1.08-1.45. By the refining raw coal tars with solvent extraction method, the anisotropic texture development of pitch cokes has been considerably improved. This coke showed "Flow-domain" texture against mosaic texture from raw coal tar. Coal tar was converted into coke for 45min at 550℃ but it took more than 5 hours at 430℃. At 450℃, coking yields and CTE value of cokes were higher than any other temperature. Coking yields were decreased and the textures of coke were mosaic at 550℃. Pitch cokes prepared at 470℃ have high coking yield; well-developed anisotropic tex-ture, and low CTE.