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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1909451, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;m sure the multi-volume editions have a lot of useful information and are worth the money. I have several of the editions from the 80&#039;s and they&#039;re good primers at best. The early chapters are useful overviews of the denominations, reverse types, basic history, etc., but there isn&#039;t anything there you can&#039;t find for free on the internet. The catalogs certainly aren&#039;t anywhere near as extensive as RIC, and the separate emperor/era histories are quite brief. You can learn a great deal more from Wikipedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>But of course, those editions served a very useful purpose in the days before the internet, because you had a compact, inexpensive overview of Roman coinage in one book. There&#039;s also the visceral pleasure of reading a book as opposed to a screen. I peruse them from time to time and pick up a new factoid here and there - nice little bedtime reading books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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