NO, Not Another Gord III, Its A Tet!

I wish we had an accurate guide to rarity like one you have mentioned but it just does not exist. acsearch and the sellers that contribute to it (certainly including CNG) are heavily weighted to 'better' coins. Before the Internet, we had the same situation with glossy catalogs (here I'm talking before CNG). Judging from the offerings of 'name' sellers, coins of Septimius Severus were about the same rarity as those of Pescennius Niger and Pertinax and even more common than falling horsemen. That was because no one ever bothered to put out a catalog full of $2 coins and that was the going rate back then. You still will have a harder time finding a photo online for a $coin that fairly sells for $10 than you will a $1000 coin because the houses are in business to make money (as it should be) and it costs the same to pay an expert cataloger to write up a horseman as it does to do a tetradrachm.

For me, collector of Eastern Severans and Falling Horsemen (among a hundred other things), it could be worse. Imagine how hard it must be to find information in the usual places if your interest were tokens or medieval Indians. The smart answer might be to buy a book (one that already exists like Boehringer or Crawford) first and only collect things in that book. I doubt there ever will be a decent reference on half the things some of us collect. I am amazed that van't Haaff got published considering the attitude mot collectors have toward Elymais. Waiting for examples in the major sales on things that may exist in only a couple specimens might get tedious. Maybe the best course of action is to stop showing things we like and just tell beginners only to collect slabbed mint state denarii of Severus Alexander.

 

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That's precisely why I'm composing my own site dedicated to Nabataeans. I realized that if I wanted a complete reference guide to these coins, I would have to make it myself.

 

=> ummm, or any of my random stevex6-blithering-posts ...



... sure, I may have been angry, but it would have been funny

 

I also believe my best course is to cut back on posting to online groups and spending the time updating my web pages. I would enjoy seeing your N page but warn you from experience that people will ask questions you covered in the first paragraph which is one of the major reasons I cut back on updating it in the past. Do the best page you can and enjoy the process. With today's search engines, it is quite possible that it will be found by the people who do care.

 

It has been. I've been contacted by several well-known numismatists who have encouraged me and sent me images of coins for the catalog.

 

Thats cool, congrats.

 

Thanks. Sorry for derailing your thread a bit. I really like the direction you've been taking with all the tets recently. Look forward to seeing more!

 

Dont bother me any, better then spamming it with cartoon pics or something.