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<p>[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 8171490, member: 31620"]I will provide my own answer which is similar but also different to those above.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own a full set of RIC use them regularly depending on the coin that I am dealing with.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with all the above comments around not just using RIC to obtain a reference. It gives a chronology, placing the coin within a dated issue allowing you to see what else was produced within the same issue and adjacent issues for example. Consider a coin from Trier minted under Constantine the Great. You can place the particular coin with particular mintmarks within the entire series of similar coins differentiated primarily by their mintmarks but you can also see how size and weight have changed over the adjacent issues too. This might not be of interest to everyone but if you have a particular interest in the series then it may be very interesting. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not all volumes of RIC have the same degree of integrity of data. </p><p><br /></p><p>I collect coins of Probus and particularly from Lugdunum. RIC V covers this but I do not use it in the same way as I do for other volumes of RIC. It is in my opinion next to useless with regards to chronology and also has other issues as to determining whether a coin exists or doesn't exist and on top of this there are huge numbers of errors. Whilst I do allocate a RIC reference to all my Probus coins they do not act as the primary reference. For Probus coins of Lugdunum I use Bastien as the primary reference and chronology etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also collect the eastern coinage of Septimius Severus. Here I use a combination of RIC and BMCRE as the primary references with BMCRE being ahead of RIC. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not actively use OCRE but have dipped into it over the years. I don't use it enough to have a strong opinion but the few times I have used it for my specialist areas there are errors or they have brought forward the same issues that exist in RIC. </p><p><br /></p><p>For Probus coinage of Lugdunum I find OCRE almost useless. For many entries the coins in the database are the wrong coins e.g. coins of Diolcetian. For others the attribution at source is incorrect e.g. a museum has incorrectly attributed a coin from Rome to the mint of Lugdunum where the coins as the same type. Many other entries are simply incorrect. From spending 10 minutes looking at OCRE I simply couldn't use it due to the high number of errors inherited from RIC but also inherited from the incorrect attributions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having looked at OCRE for the eastern issues of Septimius Severus it would appear to be in a better place that Probus but still brings forward historic problems of coins that have been mis-attributed primarily by the museums. I can give examples if that helps. As it stands I would not choose to use OCRE in preference to RIC or BMCRE.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 8171490, member: 31620"]I will provide my own answer which is similar but also different to those above. I own a full set of RIC use them regularly depending on the coin that I am dealing with. I agree with all the above comments around not just using RIC to obtain a reference. It gives a chronology, placing the coin within a dated issue allowing you to see what else was produced within the same issue and adjacent issues for example. Consider a coin from Trier minted under Constantine the Great. You can place the particular coin with particular mintmarks within the entire series of similar coins differentiated primarily by their mintmarks but you can also see how size and weight have changed over the adjacent issues too. This might not be of interest to everyone but if you have a particular interest in the series then it may be very interesting. Not all volumes of RIC have the same degree of integrity of data. I collect coins of Probus and particularly from Lugdunum. RIC V covers this but I do not use it in the same way as I do for other volumes of RIC. It is in my opinion next to useless with regards to chronology and also has other issues as to determining whether a coin exists or doesn't exist and on top of this there are huge numbers of errors. Whilst I do allocate a RIC reference to all my Probus coins they do not act as the primary reference. For Probus coins of Lugdunum I use Bastien as the primary reference and chronology etc. I also collect the eastern coinage of Septimius Severus. Here I use a combination of RIC and BMCRE as the primary references with BMCRE being ahead of RIC. I do not actively use OCRE but have dipped into it over the years. I don't use it enough to have a strong opinion but the few times I have used it for my specialist areas there are errors or they have brought forward the same issues that exist in RIC. For Probus coinage of Lugdunum I find OCRE almost useless. For many entries the coins in the database are the wrong coins e.g. coins of Diolcetian. For others the attribution at source is incorrect e.g. a museum has incorrectly attributed a coin from Rome to the mint of Lugdunum where the coins as the same type. Many other entries are simply incorrect. From spending 10 minutes looking at OCRE I simply couldn't use it due to the high number of errors inherited from RIC but also inherited from the incorrect attributions. Having looked at OCRE for the eastern issues of Septimius Severus it would appear to be in a better place that Probus but still brings forward historic problems of coins that have been mis-attributed primarily by the museums. I can give examples if that helps. As it stands I would not choose to use OCRE in preference to RIC or BMCRE.[/QUOTE]
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