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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1669969, member: 26302"]So for $10, (or even $3.50), you would not buy a book jam packed with pertinent information to ancient coin collecting? Something to read while on the beach, on a vacation, or heaven forbid the power or (worst) internet goes out? </p><p><br /></p><p>I buy Michael Grant books when I find them cheap. They are good reads, interesting, and if I get them for less than a happy meal I find it money well spent. YMMV. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Btw Doug, how are you supposed to KNOW what info is in a book you might need? You taught me about the RR coin I bought how important it was since it was bragging about the minters own accomplishments. Later on I bought Roman Coins by Kent. That is where that passage came from. If I had not heard it from you first, that paragraph would have COMPLETELY blown my mind and changed how I thought about that coin. The internet is ok, but full of errors and the writing quality is overall not up to snuff with a properly edit manuscript. I simply prefer to learn through both mediums.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1669969, member: 26302"]So for $10, (or even $3.50), you would not buy a book jam packed with pertinent information to ancient coin collecting? Something to read while on the beach, on a vacation, or heaven forbid the power or (worst) internet goes out? I buy Michael Grant books when I find them cheap. They are good reads, interesting, and if I get them for less than a happy meal I find it money well spent. YMMV. :) Btw Doug, how are you supposed to KNOW what info is in a book you might need? You taught me about the RR coin I bought how important it was since it was bragging about the minters own accomplishments. Later on I bought Roman Coins by Kent. That is where that passage came from. If I had not heard it from you first, that paragraph would have COMPLETELY blown my mind and changed how I thought about that coin. The internet is ok, but full of errors and the writing quality is overall not up to snuff with a properly edit manuscript. I simply prefer to learn through both mediums.[/QUOTE]
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