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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3113459, member: 74282&quot;]I have been collecting auction catalogues almost as long as I&#039;ve been collecting the Roman Republic. In some cases I specifically go for ones that I know I&#039;ve got coins in but I&#039;ve also picked up several along the way that I don&#039;t have any actual coins provenanced to but which are useful as reference works even without any provenance hits. Like [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], I share my bookshelf space with my wife and I also have a cat whom I&#039;ve learned needs his own empty shelf to lay on or he tries to get on top of my books and that limits how many physical catalogs and references I can keep at home so I have tried to focus on buying those catalogs worth their space on the shelf.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough, the first catalog I actually bought was for Vecchi sale 3 from 1996, a really great sale with a whopping 650 struck Republic and Imperatorial era bronzes. I had just purchased a coin that was provenanced to the sale and I was diving headfirst into Roman Republic bronzes so I picked up the only copy on the market at the time which had some water and cover damage and some handwriting(which doesn&#039;t bother me, it&#039;s got mine it it now too) but the plates were good. Last summer I came across a run of Vecchi catalogs 1-10 all in pristine condition for not much more than I previously paid for Vecchi 3 by itself so I of course picked up those catalogs and decided I&#039;d sell or give away my previous copy of Vecchi 3. I brought it to NYINC hoping I&#039;d find someone who might enjoy it but while I was there I happened to run into none other than Italo Vecchi himself. We spent some time chatting on Roman Republic bronzes and near the end of our conversation I remembered that I had my ratty copy of the catalog in my bag and he was more than happy to sign it for me. He also pointed out and corrected one attribution error that he&#039;d made in the catalog all those years ago which was a very rare <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4012532" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4012532" rel="nofollow">&quot;COZANO&quot; litra</a> from Cosa in Etruria identified as a much more common <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3483061" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3483061" rel="nofollow">Roman Minerva/Horsehead litra</a>(which IMHO was almost certainly also minted at Cosa, but that&#039;s a discussion for another time). So now I have two copies of Vecchi 3 on my bookshelf and of course my wife doesn&#039;t understand but for me it&#039;s worth the extra space.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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