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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aethelred, post: 8113451, member: 81808&quot;]A. I love these reviews and have bought several books that I enjoy very much as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>B. On the subject of the Sear books: I own BMC, Cohen and RIC and I use RIC very often and where volumes have been revised I will have both editions. I would certainly not say that I have mastered RIC as different volumes use a different approach to dealing with their subject and I spend more time with the coins of certain eras than others. I very seldom use Cohen and as much as I like owning it and intend to dig into it some day, I have never used BMC. Having said that, the books I generally reach for first when I get a new coin are Sear. Part of that is probably just familiarity, my first catalog on Roman coins was the 1974 edition of Sear that I picked up used for about $20 in the mid 80s, I loved that book and used to literally fall asleep reading it. I now own all five editions (I guess I collect coin books almost as much as coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another reason that I like to use the five volume 5th Edition is that the method of cataloging remains consistent throughout all the volumes, this is in radical contrast to RIC which is the product of many authors with different approaches over almost a century. With RIC you really do have to invest some time in learning to use them once you have invested a couple thousand dollars in buying them. With Sear you just start using it. I do not intend to make too much of this point, a smart monkey could learn to use RIC (I did after all), but it is a factor.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1411765[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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