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Message:: [QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2710493, member: 75525"]One of the books on my long term wish list was written by E Babelon in the 1880's. Today, I crossed it off my list. It has been on the list so long because it is in French, it is available on line for free in PDF, several reviewers say it has limited value, ...... I decided to buy it after paging through the on line book and seeing several lists of die symbols. If I need to "read" something I can use an on line translate site. Most of the RR coin books have repeated words that become easy to read. [ATTACH=full]612006[/ATTACH] The seller's description is not in English either.BABELON E. – Description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la République Romaine vulgairement appelées monnaies Consulaires. Sala Bolognese, 1983. pp. 562 (vol. I), pp. 669 (vol. II) con illustrazioni b. n. 2 volumi. Ristampa anastatica dell’edizione originale di Parigi-Londra 1885-1886. Andrew McCabe's book review:Less Useful, or difficult to findBabelon: E. Babelon, Description historique et chronologique de monnaies de la république romaine (Paris, 1885).The handbook on which the "family name" organisation and numbering of Roman Republican coins is based. French. Except for the prow series it does not include aes grave, and has limited coverage of the early post-212BC coinage with symbols / letters. Its line drawings of scarcer RR bronzes fill in some gaps not covered by other books and I occasionally refer to it to clarify the original arrangement behind Roman Silver Coins, but otherwise it has been superseded by other handbooks, except to the extent to the extent that its numbering system is pervasive whenever RSC1 is quoted.[/QUOTE]

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