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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1297382, member: 19463&quot;]I always thought that RIC would make a nice book if they left out the catalog and just included the chapter headings.&nbsp; I just am not the kind of person that appreciates knowing catalog numbers so ERIC and the majority of coin books leave me cold.&nbsp; I do like informative, non-catalog coin books like Elvira Clain-Stefanelli&#039;s <b>Life in Republican Rome on its Coinage </b>but it only has a few coins and not the Cassia.&nbsp; Worse she only told the stories behind some coins that were shown and the index system is hard to use.&nbsp; Were we to turn the book into what I would like, it would be four times as big and very few people would pay the price.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I was unaware RIC was online.&nbsp; That would seem a copyright violation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The British Museum Republican collection is online and shows excellent photos of their 49 Cassia 4 coins (far from a complete set).&nbsp; I see that there are control marks with dots above, below and beside each letter so there were a lot of these.&nbsp; They are listed as common coins but I just had not seen many.&nbsp; The problem to me is the BM collection is very hard to use unless you already know the catalog information (Crawford number) or just like browsing through thousands of pretty coins.</p><p><a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_research_catalogues/rrc/roman_republican_coins/roman_republican_coinage.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_research_catalogues/rrc/roman_republican_coins/roman_republican_coinage.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_research_catalogues/rrc/roman_republican_coins/roman_republican_coinage.aspx</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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