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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4609821, member: 19463"]The idea of Geographical arrangement dates back to an 8 volume book by Eckhel in 1792. Head is easier to follow than the Latin of Eckhel but Wildwinds is easier yet.</p><p><a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/geo.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/geo.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/geo.html</a></p><p>While regions are listed by geography, cities within the regions are alphabetical. Laying out the cities in geographic order would be (a) complicated and (b) impossible since the exact location of a few cities is not certain. Alphabetical listing of all coins together also has a problem since more than a few places changed their names during the coin issuing period. Whatever method you choose will be 'wrong' in some way. I use the Wildwinds list since I prefer to keep, for example, all coins of Sicily together but I admit I wish there were ways to avoid learning which region contained which towns. </p><p><br /></p><p>Alphabetical has two advantages that I can see. (1) Computers can sort alphabetical lists. (2) It places all the towns with the same name together so you can compare and decide which of the 'Antioch' options you have. Few people in this computer age do the memory work required to avoid having to look things up in a resource book or site.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4609821, member: 19463"]The idea of Geographical arrangement dates back to an 8 volume book by Eckhel in 1792. Head is easier to follow than the Latin of Eckhel but Wildwinds is easier yet. [URL]https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/geo.html[/URL] While regions are listed by geography, cities within the regions are alphabetical. Laying out the cities in geographic order would be (a) complicated and (b) impossible since the exact location of a few cities is not certain. Alphabetical listing of all coins together also has a problem since more than a few places changed their names during the coin issuing period. Whatever method you choose will be 'wrong' in some way. I use the Wildwinds list since I prefer to keep, for example, all coins of Sicily together but I admit I wish there were ways to avoid learning which region contained which towns. Alphabetical has two advantages that I can see. (1) Computers can sort alphabetical lists. (2) It places all the towns with the same name together so you can compare and decide which of the 'Antioch' options you have. Few people in this computer age do the memory work required to avoid having to look things up in a resource book or site.[/QUOTE]
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