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Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Okidoki, Dec 17, 2014.

  1. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    Hi Coinfriends,

    every now and then i check for books, lucky me.

    11$ from USA incl. postal costs.

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  3. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    book 3.5$
    postal 8$
     
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  4. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Bargain hunter? Great find Oki.
     
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  5. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Nice find, Oki. Congrats!
     
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  6. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    That's a reprint of the original edition - they come in a series and they're very nicely done. Since the copyrights have expired on these, you can download most of the BM catalogs for free, in PDF format, but I prefer having actual books myself.
     
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  7. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    most books BMC not as PDF, a reprint often 25-40$.
    because i collect only Hadrian i dont want to spend 2much.
    other books i have is Emmett and $_57.JPG
     
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  8. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Well, here is 38 of them for free...

    Numiswiki

    I like the reprints very much, and if I can get them for cheap, then I do, but I certainly wouldn't pay $25-$40.
     
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  9. Okidoki

    Okidoki Well-Known Member

    me 2, not 38 for me cuz i use Greek/hadrian
    i have these as PDF via FORVM.
    Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Galatia, Cappadocia, and Syria.pdf

    Catalogue-of-the-Greek-coins-of-Phoenicia-by-George-Francis-Hill.pdf

    Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Macedonia.pdf

    Greek coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia.pdf

    Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Phrygia.pdf

    Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Alexandria and the Nomes .pdf

    Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Ionia.pdf

    Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Museum - Troas Aeolis and Lesbos.pdf
     
  10. medoraman

    medoraman Supporter! Supporter

    I just have the old fashioned Forni reprint set on my bookshelves.
     
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  11. swamp yankee

    swamp yankee Well-Known Member

    Fantastic score on a much needed reference work!Congrats are in order....
     
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  12. dougsmit

    dougsmit Member

    http://snible.org/coins/bmc/

    We all have BMC via the above but these are not the easiest books to use even with the indices and we need to remember that BMC is a list of coins they owned when the book was published (a long time ago) so you will find things missing that you want. I remember once regretting that I could not afford the set but that was long before we had the online versions. Now the reason to own the books is because we like the feel of paper in our fingers. I'm glad I did not pay the money for a set back then.

    A word of warning, many reprints of old books with photos have really poor plates. Some BMC are illustrated with line drawings which reprint well.

    Now the big question: Which is more likely to contain correct information: A public domain BMC Sicily of 1876, a copyrighted specialty work like Boehringer Syracuse or current websites online maintained by an assortment of people from many backgrounds and countries like wildwinds or the Russian http://ancientcoins.narod.ru/rbc/Boehringer/Boehringer1.htm ?
    Building a useful library is at least as hard as building a collection of coins.
     
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