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Message:: [QUOTE="Bob L., post: 3125944, member: 56976"]I guess we're in waiting mode, to see if it happens.  I hope I'm wrong, but I wonder if the in-progress Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum project, which is planned to ultimately consist of nine (very expensive) volumes - they started with Volume 7, which has been in print since 2012 - prompted Assar to change his mind.  When it's complete SNP will document approximately 17,000 coins from the collections of a number of museums worldwide, as well as from Sellwood's collection. But, as important a resource as SNP will be, I think there is still a niche and need for a 3rd volume of Sellwood - for one-stop-shopping, as opposed to a nine volume set totaling well over a thousand dollars. This is from Assar's beautiful obit of Sellwood:"Up until his final days, David was involved in the revision of his An Introduction tothe Coinage of Parthia in collaboration with me. He even wrote the 'Foreword to theThird Edition' on 11 May 2011, while waiting for some coins from his collection tobe photographed at the offices of Spinks in London. Implementing the changes that he had approved, I shall complete the project in his memory." The Parthian section in Sunrise to some extent fills in the gap in the interim, but again I think there is a need for an updated edition of, as Parthicus puts it, "the more specialized work by Sellwood."[/QUOTE]