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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2632292, member: 19463"]Thanks. A revision done in 1975 is still woefully inadequate for what has been learned about the Severans since then. If the 2005 edition included updates based on the work of the late Roger Bickford-Smith in the 90's, I'd have to have it. </p><p>A point on the plates. There are many nice coins shown in the BMC and RIC plates. Since they were made, the British Museum collection has grown greatly. The 1975 edition plates show 52 coins of Septimius from Emesa. Martin and I have posted that many here on CT. The Barry Murphy resource has 120 Emesa denarii of Septimius well photographed.</p><p><a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/severanhome.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/severanhome.htm" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/severanhome.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The image quality of the originals may have been state of the art when they were made but they are nothing compared to what we now expect from our top end auction houses. Copying old original collotypes of plaster casts does not match what we see today even if the copy loses nothing in the process. Rather than update for image quality, I would suggest visiting the online resources and seeing how many better examples you can find. Compare not only the image quality but see how many die duplicates and better specimens of the identical coins you can find. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to have a new BMCRE volume V including their current holdings and text detailing the latest scholarship but that is not going to happen. I bought volume V years ago and learned a lot from it. It is nice to know there is another reprint available if my old one turns to dust. I do not follow what is available online for the other periods covered by these books (eg Macrinus or Elagabalus) so I do not know if this same situation is general. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again. I really wish more people would post more book reviews on CT. It is easy to find out what is in a book. Publisher tell us that. The question is how well they did it and why we should buy the book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2632292, member: 19463"]Thanks. A revision done in 1975 is still woefully inadequate for what has been learned about the Severans since then. If the 2005 edition included updates based on the work of the late Roger Bickford-Smith in the 90's, I'd have to have it. A point on the plates. There are many nice coins shown in the BMC and RIC plates. Since they were made, the British Museum collection has grown greatly. The 1975 edition plates show 52 coins of Septimius from Emesa. Martin and I have posted that many here on CT. The Barry Murphy resource has 120 Emesa denarii of Septimius well photographed. [url]http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/severanhome.htm[/url] The image quality of the originals may have been state of the art when they were made but they are nothing compared to what we now expect from our top end auction houses. Copying old original collotypes of plaster casts does not match what we see today even if the copy loses nothing in the process. Rather than update for image quality, I would suggest visiting the online resources and seeing how many better examples you can find. Compare not only the image quality but see how many die duplicates and better specimens of the identical coins you can find. I would love to have a new BMCRE volume V including their current holdings and text detailing the latest scholarship but that is not going to happen. I bought volume V years ago and learned a lot from it. It is nice to know there is another reprint available if my old one turns to dust. I do not follow what is available online for the other periods covered by these books (eg Macrinus or Elagabalus) so I do not know if this same situation is general. Thanks again. I really wish more people would post more book reviews on CT. It is easy to find out what is in a book. Publisher tell us that. The question is how well they did it and why we should buy the book.[/QUOTE]
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