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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5362494, member: 19463"]About ten years ago I was troubled by this exact question. I bought a then relatively new book <b>Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453</b> by Lianta. It has hundreds of photos from the Ashmolean Museum collection. I proved too dense to understand the material provided and still have no skills whatsoever when it comes to the Latin and later cup shaped coins (the reason I bought the book). I believe good line drawings would be more helpful than those photos. At that time I only had two coins from the questionable groups and I bought them thinking they had enough better detail that they would be easy. I was wrong. My answer was to buy no more coins which I had doubts as to the ID provided by the seller. That is not a good answer but it is my unfortunate position still. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1227759[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1227760[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5362494, member: 19463"]About ten years ago I was troubled by this exact question. I bought a then relatively new book [B]Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453[/B] by Lianta. It has hundreds of photos from the Ashmolean Museum collection. I proved too dense to understand the material provided and still have no skills whatsoever when it comes to the Latin and later cup shaped coins (the reason I bought the book). I believe good line drawings would be more helpful than those photos. At that time I only had two coins from the questionable groups and I bought them thinking they had enough better detail that they would be easy. I was wrong. My answer was to buy no more coins which I had doubts as to the ID provided by the seller. That is not a good answer but it is my unfortunate position still. [ATTACH=full]1227759[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1227760[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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