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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4553589, member: 19463"]It is easier to go away. I was given Mitchiner using my 'Geopoints' accumulated when my website hosted by Geocities went under and Yahoo stopped that reward period telling us we had to buy something with our credits. I have enjoyed the book but much in it is dated information and probably not worth the cash price even 20 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is another matter here. I know a collector (a lot smarter than I am) who learned Bulgarian so she could read the books coming out of that country following the opening of the former Soviet bloc countries. I might not feel like such loser at Chinese coins if I were able to read Chinese. Are there other books? Maybe. Can you read them? Maybe not. I am a typical ugly American who feels little drive to learn the 20+ languages needed to be an entry level world citizen in 2020. In school, I took Latin, Greek, and Russian. Today I have a faltering command of English and read enough of a few other languages to read my coins. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_resource/10/product/ivan_varbanov_greek_imperial_coins_and_their_values_the_local_coinages_of_the_roman_empire_vols_iiii/393171/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_resource/10/product/ivan_varbanov_greek_imperial_coins_and_their_values_the_local_coinages_of_the_roman_empire_vols_iiii/393171/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_resource/10/product/ivan_varbanov_greek_imperial_coins_and_their_values_the_local_coinages_of_the_roman_empire_vols_iiii/393171/Default.aspx</a></p><p>The link above shows a set of the three Varbanov catalogs that sold for less than 1/3 the going rate for a single volume in the English version. I should have learned Bulgarian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4553589, member: 19463"]It is easier to go away. I was given Mitchiner using my 'Geopoints' accumulated when my website hosted by Geocities went under and Yahoo stopped that reward period telling us we had to buy something with our credits. I have enjoyed the book but much in it is dated information and probably not worth the cash price even 20 years ago. There is another matter here. I know a collector (a lot smarter than I am) who learned Bulgarian so she could read the books coming out of that country following the opening of the former Soviet bloc countries. I might not feel like such loser at Chinese coins if I were able to read Chinese. Are there other books? Maybe. Can you read them? Maybe not. I am a typical ugly American who feels little drive to learn the 20+ languages needed to be an entry level world citizen in 2020. In school, I took Latin, Greek, and Russian. Today I have a faltering command of English and read enough of a few other languages to read my coins. [URL]https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_resource/10/product/ivan_varbanov_greek_imperial_coins_and_their_values_the_local_coinages_of_the_roman_empire_vols_iiii/393171/Default.aspx[/URL] The link above shows a set of the three Varbanov catalogs that sold for less than 1/3 the going rate for a single volume in the English version. I should have learned Bulgarian.[/QUOTE]
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