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<p>[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 2903349, member: 75641"]I am not too familiar with Cohen. I have a website that has the book's volumes scanned by page. I am also only so able with French. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am trying to learn the differences in styles between mints in the 2nd and 3rd centuries concerning the Severans in particular. I do not know much and while I would like to learn I find it frustrating that this information seems to be only accessible by study of coins and not necessarily found in a book. The frustration comes from not having enough money to buy enough coins to learn faster.</p><p><br /></p><p>With coins of Probus I do enjoy collecting the antoninianii by mint. For me it is fun to find coins I have found to be more rare than others and have little complete sections of an otherwise daunting and impossible to complete series of coinage for Probus. So in those cases, I have found Aorta to be very informative in helping understand the mintmark and officina combinations. Wild winds has helped me understand which reference books are appropriate and standard for each period of the empire or coinage series. In my brain, I am trying to synthesize all of this information to make sense of it all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 2903349, member: 75641"]I am not too familiar with Cohen. I have a website that has the book's volumes scanned by page. I am also only so able with French. I am trying to learn the differences in styles between mints in the 2nd and 3rd centuries concerning the Severans in particular. I do not know much and while I would like to learn I find it frustrating that this information seems to be only accessible by study of coins and not necessarily found in a book. The frustration comes from not having enough money to buy enough coins to learn faster. With coins of Probus I do enjoy collecting the antoninianii by mint. For me it is fun to find coins I have found to be more rare than others and have little complete sections of an otherwise daunting and impossible to complete series of coinage for Probus. So in those cases, I have found Aorta to be very informative in helping understand the mintmark and officina combinations. Wild winds has helped me understand which reference books are appropriate and standard for each period of the empire or coinage series. In my brain, I am trying to synthesize all of this information to make sense of it all.[/QUOTE]
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