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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3101365, member: 19463&quot;]If I had to pick a side, I&#039;d have to go with TIF and praise AJ&#039;s coins but those who are impressed by the medallion might also enjoy books we discuss here every so often. (Most of what we say here has been said before and will be said again.&nbsp; Each of us wonder whether there has been enough time elapsed for there to be enough new people who might appreciate it.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll mention Roman Coins by Kent and Hirmer:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0810915847/ref=olp_f_new?ie=UTF8&amp;f_new=true&amp;f_used=true&amp;f_usedAcceptable=true&amp;f_usedGood=true&amp;f_usedLikeNew=true&amp;f_usedVeryGood=true&amp;qid=1528468517&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0810915847/ref=olp_f_new?ie=UTF8&amp;f_new=true&amp;f_used=true&amp;f_usedAcceptable=true&amp;f_usedGood=true&amp;f_usedLikeNew=true&amp;f_usedVeryGood=true&amp;qid=1528468517&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0810915847/ref=olp_f_new?ie=UTF8&amp;f_new=true&amp;f_used=true&amp;f_usedAcceptable=true&amp;f_usedGood=true&amp;f_usedLikeNew=true&amp;f_usedVeryGood=true&amp;qid=1528468517&amp;sr=8-1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The photos are all black and white.&nbsp; In color, the book would be blinding. Some of the coins are slightly damaged but rather few are poor enough that you will consider them the sort of thing I would collect.&nbsp; I believe the authors selected the finest examples of the finest coins, medallions included, from museum collections.&nbsp; The editors favored style over condition.&nbsp; They do have a sampling of things like Falling Horseman (some of us have better) but the coins you will buy the book to see are the medallions and rarities that don&#039;t show up in the marketplace.&nbsp; If we each had to pick our favorites, I suspect the choices would vary.&nbsp; The Hadrian medallion with Silvanus might get a vote as would the Commodus showing the emperor as Hercules with the pelts of boar and lion.&nbsp; I would not mind having the ten denarius piece of Julia Domna even risking criticism for picking a coin with slight damage.&nbsp; The point is we all should enjoy the coins we have and aspire to some better.&nbsp; We need not feel like failures for not having all the ones in the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who can mention other books to make us feel bad?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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