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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4551947, member: 19463&quot;]You had me at &quot;solid black&quot;.&nbsp; One great advantage of online photos is that black backgrounds are easier on the eye but cost no more than white backgrounds.&nbsp; In printed books, black backgrounds require better paper that does not soak through badly.&nbsp; Owners of inkjet printers might be aware that a coin image on black uses several time the ink as one on white and ink is not free.&nbsp; Real photo prints like you get at Costco or other labs are cheaper than the ink alone used to print at home.</p><p><br /></p><p>You lost me with the fact of not discussing or adopting recent scholarship.</p><p><br /></p><p>You lost me again with the author Curtis whose name leads the group responsible for the two volume <b>Sasanian Coins </b>which I consider the biggest waste of my money for my library so far in this century.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sylloge-Sasanian-Coins-National-Museum/dp/0901405442/ref=sr_1_34?dchild=1&amp;keywords=sasanian+coin&amp;qid=1591448483&amp;sr=8-34" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Sylloge-Sasanian-Coins-National-Museum/dp/0901405442/ref=sr_1_34?dchild=1&amp;keywords=sasanian+coin&amp;qid=1591448483&amp;sr=8-34" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Sylloge-Sasanian-Coins-National-Museum/dp/0901405442/ref=sr_1_34?dchild=1&amp;keywords=sasanian+coin&amp;qid=1591448483&amp;sr=8-34</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You tried hard to get me back with the price but there are plenty of pictures online so I remain torn.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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