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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Calpurnia, post: 1629477, member: 35419&quot;]Doug, I have a basic knowledge of using the British Museum(BM) of Roman Republican (RR) coins online catalog but not the advanced section.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the Calpurnius Piso coin the Crawford# is 408 and in the BM online you search for 408.1.* and&nbsp; thumbnails of 336 of the coins will appear. Clicking on a thumbnail will bring up a medium size image of the Obv. with detailed info.&nbsp; Clicking on the medium size image will bring up a page filling image of Obv and Rev. My confusion came at this page filling image which above the Rev. image had the words &quot;Previous&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; X of 336&nbsp;&nbsp; Next&quot; but at the left corner had the word &quot;Back&quot;, which I hadn&#039;t noticed.&nbsp; Pressing the &quot;Previous&quot; took me to a previous Page filling image instead of back to the medium size image with all the details. Pressing the &quot;Back&quot; was the only way to get back to the medium size image.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is getting pretty wordy and I hope not too confusing.&nbsp; The way i enjoy using it is to go the page filling image of the Obv and Rev., and start cycling&nbsp; through 336 coins. It is very impressive to see the Obv and Rev. filling up the whole screen. When I want detail, I press the &quot;Back&quot; and I am at the medium sized image with the detail. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Crawford breaks down 408 into 408a(Laureate) and 408b(taenia or fillet) heads.&nbsp; Search the BM for 408/1a brings up 85 thumbnails of the Laureate; search the BM for 408/1b brings up 245 thumbnails for the Taenia or fllet. The total is 330, which is 6 less than the 336 original; the difference&nbsp; I believe is due to fouree&#039;s being included in the grand total.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;You may be familiar with all this, so I wonder for what&nbsp;&nbsp; specifically are you searching for in the BM RR?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The BM of RR coins has 12,000 coins and 5000 were donated in 2002 by Charles Hersh, so the on line version has almost twice the # of coins in the 3 vol BMRRC. The images are excellent and I enjoy noting the nice toning on the older coins(the notes include the year the BM acquired the coin); I am not a great fan of brilliant, lustrous ancient coins. This is just an excellent reference, although it takes practice to use it.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW,&nbsp; your online ancient coin pages are among the best for ancient coin collectors.&nbsp; I especially have liked the section on grading. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ron[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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