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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1833851, member: 19463"]To the best of my knowledge the CNG catalogs from the last millennium are not online so you need the paper catalogs. The zodiacs were in sale XIII while more usual coins were in XII (both in 1990). The firm was then called Classical Numismatic Auctions but it is the same series. Early catalogs are thinner and a bit less professionally done than the current ones. Many of Kerry's coins were somewhat average condition since he was gathering them for study of what existed rather than to impress the condition crowd. </p><p><br /></p><p>As a combination of saving catalogs they sent me back when I was a more active customer and ones given me at the local club by old guys cleaning out their attics, I put together a set from 1 to 65 (Triton VII) minus #2 which escaped me. The later books were put online in what I consider to be one of the greatest moves by any coin dealer for the good of the hobby. I have not bought these recent books themselves because the online versions are so much easier to search. Frank Robinson sold a large part set a couple sales ago that half overlapped what I have and you see individual books offered with some regularity. I still enjoy looking through those old sale catalogs. I would recommend picking them up when available reasonably but postage to the Far North would probably be killer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1833851, member: 19463"]To the best of my knowledge the CNG catalogs from the last millennium are not online so you need the paper catalogs. The zodiacs were in sale XIII while more usual coins were in XII (both in 1990). The firm was then called Classical Numismatic Auctions but it is the same series. Early catalogs are thinner and a bit less professionally done than the current ones. Many of Kerry's coins were somewhat average condition since he was gathering them for study of what existed rather than to impress the condition crowd. As a combination of saving catalogs they sent me back when I was a more active customer and ones given me at the local club by old guys cleaning out their attics, I put together a set from 1 to 65 (Triton VII) minus #2 which escaped me. The later books were put online in what I consider to be one of the greatest moves by any coin dealer for the good of the hobby. I have not bought these recent books themselves because the online versions are so much easier to search. Frank Robinson sold a large part set a couple sales ago that half overlapped what I have and you see individual books offered with some regularity. I still enjoy looking through those old sale catalogs. I would recommend picking them up when available reasonably but postage to the Far North would probably be killer.[/QUOTE]
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