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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2409017, member: 19463&quot;]I agree here but there is also a great opportunity for adding comments to these classic catalogs correcting errors that continue to spread misinformation every time someone references them.&nbsp; My favorite example is a great Alexandria mint denarius of Septimius Severus that was misread in the classic Arnold sale catalog in 1984 (lot 70) that was so nice it had been picked by Seaby to illustrate Roman Silver Coins #262 even though the photo is clear enough to show that it was not that coin (not in 1969, not in 1984 and not today).&nbsp;&nbsp; I do not know where that problem originated.&nbsp; I would really prefer the next books use a coin that really is as it is listed.&nbsp; This is more likely to happen when we start using old references critically rather than faithfully.&nbsp;&nbsp; Being able to add a note to such things, to me, offsets problems that can be lessened by programming tricks that are becoming more amazing every day.&nbsp; Having a search engine respond (preferably as an option) to all permutations of Craw., Syd., BMC and whatever comes next (CRRO?) is a matter of someone telling the thing to.&nbsp; Just as we now recall when calculators did nothing better than adding machines, the search capabilities I will never live to see should be very interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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