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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2392204, member: 19463&quot;]No.&nbsp; Turn to page 544 were ERIC II spent as few words as possible (to leave more room for the precious numbers) mentioning that there were several secessionist states and he was going out of his way to avoid be educational by lumping them all there together starting with Regalianus and ending with Allectus.&nbsp; The largest single group in the middle were Gallic (Postumus through Tetricus) but there were problem groups and individuals both before and after that had nothing to do with Gaul.&nbsp; If I were to apply a name to Allectus (and Carausius before him) it would be Romano-British.&nbsp; They came along a generation after Tetricus surrendered and are covered in RIC VI as a problem for the Tetrarchy rather than for Gallienus, Claudius and Aurelian.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I know many of you worship ERIC and that is just something we have to agree to disagree on.&nbsp; I never got a bound copy but still have the unbound galley proofs Ras sent to me for the purpose of the review I wrote when it came out.&nbsp; He never asked for the proofs back and the postage on them would be steep considering the paper is thick and untrimmed.&nbsp; The review is still available if anyone cares. </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=65466.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=65466.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=65466.0</a></p><p>I tried to be fair but Ras and I have a severe disagreement on what is important in a book.&nbsp; He avoids being educational and loves lists.&nbsp; On receiving it, I was extremely disappointed but then, as now, wish I could have an edited copy (perhaps 100 pages?) deleting all the tables but retaining the texts.&nbsp; I doubt anyone here will read my entire review linked above but I would like to quote from the last paragraph:</p><p><span style="color: #0000b3">&quot;No coin book, no website, no personal conversation can be relied upon to be without error and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=eric%20ii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=eric%20ii" rel="nofollow">ERIC II</a> has weak spots that will require critical evaluation rather than slavish acceptance.&nbsp; It is an admirable effort with much more good than bad.&nbsp; Of course, I wish it were perfect; I wish errors were harder to find.&nbsp; Who wouldn’t?&nbsp;&nbsp; I <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1840" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1840" rel="nofollow">hope</a> enough people out there are <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=still" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=still" rel="nofollow">still</a> <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=18&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=18&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">buying</a> coin books to make <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=writing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=writing" rel="nofollow">writing</a> them less than total and <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=complete" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=complete" rel="nofollow">complete</a> idiocy.&nbsp; I can think of hundreds of worse uses for $150 than <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=18&amp;pos=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=18&amp;pos=0" rel="nofollow">buying</a> this book.&nbsp; I encourage each of you to consider whether this huge effort fits your needs.&nbsp; While it costs twice as much as <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=eric%20i" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=eric%20i" rel="nofollow">ERIC I</a>, it is more than twice as good so owners who liked the old version may be expected to love the new one.&nbsp; There is a lot of information present even if some of it requires more <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=work" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=work" rel="nofollow">work</a> to extract than we might like.&nbsp; There are errors - possibly a lot of them - but how many good listings are we willing to give up for fear of finding one of the problems?&nbsp;&nbsp; No one will be <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=writing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=writing" rel="nofollow">writing</a> a better book of its kind anytime soon so if you want anything remotely like this <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=work" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=work" rel="nofollow">work</a>, get it while you can.&quot; </span></p><p>I do not know if Ras will send me a review copy of ERIC III.&nbsp; I do not know if I will live long enough to see it published.&nbsp; Ras said when he sent me ERIC II that I was the only person still writing reviews of books on coins.&nbsp; Which of you has a website dedicated to book reviews?&nbsp; Maybe he will be spending time between now and the publication finding someone more in agreement with the format to which he is firmly committed and which I dislike so intensely (as explained in the review).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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