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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2753577, member: 19463&quot;]And here is the problem with books.&nbsp; Authors and publishers have a silly desire to sell enough copies to break even on the project.&nbsp; Specialized numismatic books in 5 (or 50) volumes selling for a hundred dollars a volume tend to sell a few copies and rise in price when out of print producing a profit for people other than those who undertook the project.&nbsp; Emmett filled with 4000+ images of the coins would be easily 20 volumes the size of the current book.&nbsp; If we decided it as important to list separately all the legend variations even if we did not try to illustrate them we might double that count.&nbsp; Worst, the book lists a rather high number of R5 coins meaning that the listing was made from a single specimen or possibly two but some of these have not been seen since they were listed before many coins were photographed.&nbsp; The best possible book would not be anything approaching complete.&nbsp; Finding and photographing a second and third 1400 coins not in Forschner would be a lifelong quest.&nbsp; The book would be like the Oxford English Dictionary.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps that is why they now issue the dictionary online and why the new works on Provincial coins, including Alexandrians seem likely to be online publications.&nbsp; Those of us who want photos can access then online.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In 2002, we worked on the images for Victor Failmezger&#039;s <b>Late Roman Bronze Coins</b>.&nbsp; The author humored me by allowing production of the CDRom containing the images from the plates.&nbsp; I was of the opinion then that the book could have been made smaller and cheaper by omitting the color plates and relying on the CDRom.&nbsp; I was wrong.&nbsp; Relatively few people wanted the disk.&nbsp; Now, 15 years later, I still believe that the answer is softcopy images but now it is online rather than a CDRom. I am happy to see a project on Alexandrian coin images online not unlike the one available for RIC V part 1.&nbsp; They are working on it, in pieces.&nbsp; Perhaps more people now will decide that thousands of searchable online images is better than a paper page with a few hundred.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Where does one buy Forschner? ...Geissen?&nbsp; I&#039;d have to consider carefully just how many 300 euro books on Alexandrian coins I need.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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