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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4631630, member: 19463&quot;]IMO, Sutherland is worth the price paid.&nbsp; Carson is the first of three volumes.&nbsp; The second and third cover the Principate and Dominate splitting the Empire at Diocletian.&nbsp; It is a sampling of coins including ones you might own and rarities you will never see.&nbsp; Seaby was a five volume standard reference and easy to use to find coins in Cohen order.&nbsp; I do not know Giacosa or the Scandinavian book.&nbsp; That leaves Ryan.</p><p><br /></p><p>The late John Ryan was a friend of mine in the Washington DC club.&nbsp; He had two main hobbies.&nbsp; The man loved opera and had a large collection of the earliest wax cylinders of operatic greats from the time that a &#039;record&#039; was limited to a couple minutes before you had to change the thing to the next part and crank the machine.&nbsp; He had complete operas that took (guessing here) 50 changes to hear.&nbsp; His other passion was the coins of the Popes.&nbsp; His intention was to publish his large collection in multiple volumes (3?) but the first released, covering the medieval period, was not a big seller and the last parts never happened.&nbsp; A good part of the reason was that the coins covered were rare and there was a competing book by Berman that covered all Papal (quite a bit more lightly) in one volume.&nbsp; John&#039;s book was scholarly overkill considering the number of Papal collectors that were interested in the coins before his 1534 cutoff date.&nbsp; His proposed Modern volume would have done better.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the early coins of the Popes were so obscure that I had to keep asking him which side was up when I was taking the photos for the book.&nbsp; I knew nothing about the coins and, at that time, did not collect anything as late as the first Papal issues. I did the photos as a favor (for free) and gave him the negatives.&nbsp; My&nbsp; name is on page 4.&nbsp; The photos are not great.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You got &#039;a deal&#039;![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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