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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1717938, member: 19463&quot;]While still true, this has been getting better in the era of the Internet.&nbsp; When I started collecting, it was hard to find a dealer who would illustrate a late Roman bronze or even a third century silver.&nbsp; Illustrated catalogs cost money and there is no profit in publishing a paper book filled with $10 coin photos.&nbsp; Today, online photos make it expected to illustrate everything so we get to see what is being offered and watch for minor varieties.&nbsp; Of course the $10 coins are $50 now but most of us have more cash on hand than we did in 1960 or 1990.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I love my old catalog collection and have some of them marked on the cover as to what is well covered inside as well as which include even a single &#039;special&#039; Severan denarius.&nbsp; The only problem with them is that a stack o a few hundred are hard to sort through looking for something specific compared to the search functions of online resources.&nbsp; Valentinian has done us all a great service with his suggestions of catalogs for specific interests.&nbsp; There are many old books that I consider worthless (Philip Hill on Septimius comes to mind) but catalogs with thousands of coin photos will remain great resources at least until someone scans them all and puts them online.&nbsp; I own all the CNG/Victor England catalogs that predate the ones CNG put online.&nbsp; The later, online ones are easier to use; the earlier paper ones are more fun to flip through.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One of the books recommended in the OP link is Victor Failmezger&#039;s on Late Roman Bronzes for which I shot the plates.&nbsp; The plates include some rare things and many common coins.&nbsp; The most rare came from a couple of private collections of people you know as well as from Victor&#039;s own collection.&nbsp; Photographing the coins for that book is what got me interested in late Romans.&nbsp; I still have the files if anyone wants to see a large photo of one of those coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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