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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2514620, member: 19463&quot;]I am completely turned off by RR cataloging.&nbsp; First we have that old system where you are expected to know the family name of a moneyer even when he did not feel the need to put it on his coins.&nbsp; Then we have coins of grandchildren adjacent to grandfathers with similar names and piles of bronzes that may or may not be obviously related to silver of similar design.&nbsp; Next we have an attempt by Sydenham which turned out to be found imperfect by Crawford whose errors seem to be being ignored since changing his order would be more confusing than it is worth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say I like Imperial cataloging better but every author of an RIC volume decided it was necessary to change to his own personal way of handling orders or mints.&nbsp; Take RIC VI and reorganize it like IV or IX starting over with new groups every time a ruler was added or subtracted or making coin 123A and 123B different rulers.&nbsp; The older I get the more I like Cohen.&nbsp; He didn&#039;t even pretend to separate dupondii from asses just calling them all MB.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I love my coins.&nbsp; I tolerate my books the best I can.&nbsp; I do rather like the Tye book <b>Jitals </b>which has a section of explanatory text with marginal notes giving the catalog number of the coins covered in that paragraph.&nbsp; I may not understand why he talks about some coins and not others beyond the desire to keep the book size down but at least I can find the things when they are there.&nbsp; Perhaps it would be unwieldy if the book were ten volumes weighing a ton.&nbsp; I have not seen some of the newer books on Greek due to my unwillingness to order them sight unseen.&nbsp; That has not gone so well on some of my book purchases.&nbsp; Has anyone posted a full critical review/discussion of Hoover?&nbsp; Does he contribute anything to the question of order?&nbsp; I&#039;m not talking about advertising or &#039;I like it&#039; notes.&nbsp; After I wrote a less than stellar review of ERIC I, I was surprised when RAS sent me a galley proof of ERIC II.&nbsp; He explained that I seemed to be the only person reviewing books.&nbsp; Say it isn&#039;t so![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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