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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4099446, member: 19463"]I do believe that my favorite reference 'book' is my collection of about 500+ old sale catalogs. Of course taking up about 50 feet of shelf space and including many errors along the way could be looked on as faults. Still, there is more good information there than any other book set (RIC, BMC, Sayles, etc.) if you have the time and critical skills needed. A Triton would only be my choice for a place to start if I were planning to buy coins averaging $1000 each but it most certainly is a wonderful hunk of ink on paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW: My collection of old catalogs is minuscule compared to CT's own Valentinian who also sells back issues of good ones. I do believe any time devoted to any of his pages to be time well spent.</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4099446, member: 19463"]I do believe that my favorite reference 'book' is my collection of about 500+ old sale catalogs. Of course taking up about 50 feet of shelf space and including many errors along the way could be looked on as faults. Still, there is more good information there than any other book set (RIC, BMC, Sayles, etc.) if you have the time and critical skills needed. A Triton would only be my choice for a place to start if I were planning to buy coins averaging $1000 each but it most certainly is a wonderful hunk of ink on paper. BTW: My collection of old catalogs is minuscule compared to CT's own Valentinian who also sells back issues of good ones. I do believe any time devoted to any of his pages to be time well spent. [URL]http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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