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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3646132, member: 99456&quot;]Some context , before I tread on potentially controversial ground. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love books, and ERIC is among the books that I find very useful - especially for it&#039;s compact representation of indices that let me easily scan types, legends, busts and images.&nbsp; If there were an Eric 2.1 in lighter weight volumes with the same information - I would buy it tomorrow to complement (no book is ever replaced) my hefty ERIC II volume, and its many bookshelf companions.&nbsp; I think it is fun to see ERIC III as a work in progress.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for potential controversy: books are a very poor medium for the complex information space that we navigate.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are just too many axes/facets/dimensions from which one would like to research a coin or coins:</p><p>- date (44 B.C.)</p><p>- Emperor/person (Augustus, Cicero...)</p><p>- Symbols/icons (libertas, venus,...)</p><p>- Legend (IMP MAXIMIANUS AVG...)</p><p>- Historical event (first mithradatic war...)</p><p>- Condition (wear, patina,...)</p><p>- Literature reference (papers, books, journals,...)</p><p>- Author/researcher (Sear, Mattingly, Crawford, ...)</p><p>- Hypothesis (the elephant is or is not Caesar, Emesa is the mint, Parthamaspates is really Sanatrukes son of Meherdates, ...)</p><p>- Hoard evidence (Massagne, Beau Street,...)</p><p>- Location/place (Bath, Rome, Lyon, ...)</p><p>- Metal (AV, AR, AE, BI)</p><p>- Price range ($$)</p><p>- Rarity (issue, market, die counts, ...)</p><p>- Photographs/images</p><p>- Error types (centering, cracks, corrected, misspelled, brockage...)</p><p>- Provenance (who owned what coins)</p><p>- Discussion (debate and sharing of ideas)</p><p>- et.c.&nbsp; I could go on, but perhaps already overworking the thought</p><p><br /></p><p>As demonstrated in this forum daily - there is too much knowledge to allow anyone to be expert and up-to-date for a subset of ancients e.g.&quot;Roman Imperial&quot; coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; An edited, crowd sourced electronic resource could be so much more powerful.&nbsp; A fresh, modern approach could, in my view, not only have powerful research implications, but also commercial implications.&nbsp; Imagine that you could now find for sale and buy a coin using a complex subset of these dimensions.&nbsp; Many of these dimensions can be searched today electronically, the glue between them needs some work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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