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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6449441, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;m reviving this old thread to post some pages from the copy I recently bought of the Kampmann &amp; Ganschow (&quot;K&amp;G&quot;) catalog of Roman Alexandrian coins, published in 2008.&nbsp; I was able to find it used on Abebooks for about $50. It&#039;s certainly not as comprehensive as Emmett (it lists about 6,500 coins as compared to Emmett&#039;s 8,300). But it has (at a guess) something between 1,000 and 2,000 coin photographs (all in black and white, admittedly), as compared to the almost complete absence of photos from Emmett. Yes, Emmett has many line drawings that are very useful, but they&#039;re of types of obverses and reverses rather than of actual coins. (In addition to its photos of the cataloged coins, K&amp;G has photos of about 40 reverse types of different deities, etc.) I also like the fact that K&amp;G is arranged chronologically by reign and by year within the reign (as opposed to Emmett&#039;s organization by reign and by type). The organization reminds me quite a bit of RSC, RCV, and even RIC, with lists of legends and bust types at the beginning of each reign, each represented by a capital or lower-case letter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, K&amp;G is in German, which I don&#039;t read, and it&#039;s frustrating not to be able to read all the introductory materials, but I don&#039;t find the catalog itself particularly difficult to follow.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it certainly doesn&#039;t replace Emmett, but it&#039;s still nice to have, and I&#039;ve been enjoying browsing through it and looking at the photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the cover, with a nice rendition of the Lighthouse. (The way it&#039;s rendered, it wouldn&#039;t have looked too out of place in Manhattan in the 1910s or 1920s!)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1256614[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The page for Claudius I&#039;s reign with a photo of my Year 2 Antonia reverse type (12.3). Note the list of legends, etc., at the outset:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256616[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The page for Nero (Year 12) with my tetradrachm with Alexandria on the reverse (14.88):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The page for Hadrian (Year 12) with a photo of my coin type with a mummiform Ptah-Sokar-Osiris on the reverse (32.458)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256618[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A random page for Hadrian, Year 18, with photos of some interesting drachms:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256627[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The introductory page for Antoninus Pius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256620[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The page for Antoninus Pius with a photo of my Year 23 Isis <i>lactans</i> type (35.810):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256621[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A page from the Nomes coinage section (which I find easier to use than Emmett&#039;s) with a photo (N6.6) of my Hadrian Year 11 Arsinoite Nome Obol type, depicting a Pharaoh on the reverse</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256628[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another feature of K&amp;G is the concordance tables it has at the end for Geissen, Dattari (Savio), and the first two volumes of RPC (the only ones that had been published when K&amp;G came out). Here&#039;s an example of a page from the RPC concordance:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256633[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, a page from the Bildnachweis (list of photo credits):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256634[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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