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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2514586, member: 19463&quot;]Many of the links on that page go to Head and Stevenson which are English and much more useful IMHO. </p><p><br /></p><p>I once questioned the Greek arrangement at a club meeting and was asked what I might propose in the stead of the ridiculous current system.&nbsp; I consider this a good question.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We could do alphabetical by town which would place Agragas in one volume and Zankle down the road in several books later.&nbsp; It might help by plaing all those towns with the same name next to each other so you could play name that Antioch.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Better might be Alphabetical by region so all the coins of Sicily would be together but is Bruttium a region or is all of Italy a region for this purpose?&nbsp;&nbsp; These are not the hard questions.&nbsp; Alphabetical by region requires you know that Athens is in Attica (or is it Central Greece???) and a thousand more.&nbsp; At some point we drop back to alphabetical whichever system we use bringing up the Roman question of whether RIC order is better than Cohen order but that is another can of worms.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The point is Eckhel or someone before him started doing it geographically and no one since has come up with another answer that does not make as many problems as it solves.&nbsp; I do not have an answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to single out what I consider to be the worst idea I ever saw but I do not know for sure who started it.&nbsp; I first met it in Sear where Archaic coins of a whole region are all presented before Classical coins so not all coins of a city are even close together and are separated by many other cities&#039; issues.&nbsp; This gets worse when a city changed names along the way or was wiped of the face of he map for a while.&nbsp; Then we have the matter of whether coins that look like Alexander the Great issues are listed in the Hellenistic section or in the geographic order.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would LOVE to find a system that would allow me to place my ~thousand Greek or Greekish or not so Roman or hard to classify or whatever coins in an order that made any sense whatsoever but I have not been able to come up with even a start of an idea that addresses even the simple questions without getting into what to do with colonials that look like each other or not so Athenian owls made in Egypt or somewhere a few thousand miles closer to there than to Athens.&nbsp; After being so sure the system was ridiculous (and it most certainly is) I came back to the belief that it might just be the most sensible option when you consider the Big Picture.&nbsp; I will, however, never warm up to putting the Archaics of 480 BC in one section and the Classicals of 450 BC in another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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