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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3523340, member: 90666&quot;]In addition to the benefits mentioned by Red Spork for buying the RBW book rather than the catalogue, there&#039;s multiple other benefits I would like to add:</p><p><br /></p><p>- there are about 50 cataloguing corrections in the book. Usually minor items, but the more than one year the RBW book took to prepare allowed me and others to pick up on dozens of minor errors that cannot in practice be picked up in the one month it takes to prepare a sale catalogue. Stuff such as correct references to the correct sub type in Sydenham or elsewhere, where the cut and pasting done in usual sale catalogue prep didn&#039;t allow time to check.</p><p><br /></p><p>- the footnotes for the coins are really quite different from those in the NAC sale catalogues with a great deal of corrected, amended and added information, including a host of extra material written by me as well as by RBW (which he published as Rick Witschonke in Essays Russo).</p><p><br /></p><p>- There are a small number (perhaps a dozen) of more significant attribution or arrangement changes. These are items where the authors, Russo and de Falco, recognised over the longer term were mis-catalogued, and in the editing process I could alter the arrangement to fix them.</p><p><br /></p><p>- there are also a number of additions of non-gold coins, where RBW located a type that was missing from NAC 61 or NAC 63 after the sales, but that did belong to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, given the extent of changes, I would not consult NAC 61 or 63 if I have a better alternative - the RBW book - at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Serious collectors need both of course, as the RBW book probably has several hundred updates against RRC - new coin types, cataloguing amendments or rearrangements, and the commentary notes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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