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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2430696, member: 19463"]I'll add a few. I like picture books because I like pictures. I hated seeing someone say they bought ERIC II for the photos because I believe the photos are among its worst features. There are very few photos of both sides of the same coin and the ones that are there are not always identified as going with each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>For Republicans, I swallowed hard and bought the expensive nine volume Banti, Corpus Nummorum Romanorum which has thousands of photos of RR family coins (no anonymous issues are covered). The photos range from bad to worse with some bordering on terrible having been lifted from old catalogs. Still, they have photos of things that were hard to find before the British Museum and a few other collections went online. </p><p><br /></p><p>For free online sites, I suggest looking at two below:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/crro/</a></p><p><a href="http://davy.potdevin.free.fr/Site/crawford1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://davy.potdevin.free.fr/Site/crawford1.html" rel="nofollow">http://davy.potdevin.free.fr/Site/crawford1.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2430696, member: 19463"]I'll add a few. I like picture books because I like pictures. I hated seeing someone say they bought ERIC II for the photos because I believe the photos are among its worst features. There are very few photos of both sides of the same coin and the ones that are there are not always identified as going with each other. For Republicans, I swallowed hard and bought the expensive nine volume Banti, Corpus Nummorum Romanorum which has thousands of photos of RR family coins (no anonymous issues are covered). The photos range from bad to worse with some bordering on terrible having been lifted from old catalogs. Still, they have photos of things that were hard to find before the British Museum and a few other collections went online. For free online sites, I suggest looking at two below: [url]http://numismatics.org/crro/[/url] [url]http://davy.potdevin.free.fr/Site/crawford1.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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