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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7655310, member: 19463&quot;]Again IMO, a lot of the worthlessness of books comes from the fact that a buyer will be paying more the the post office than to the book seller.&nbsp; Andrew is in the UK.&nbsp; Mailing a box full of folios to, lets say, California would not be cheap.&nbsp; I have a rather low value idea of my library but it is several times that of my heirs who do not care for coins and would much rather have a 1950&#039;s Dr. Seuss than a 1750&#039;s folio of coin plates.&nbsp; The books that survive me will likely go to recycle.&nbsp; In the UK there might be a better chance of finding someone with a truck who will pick them up than it would be here were the nearest next collector is several miles away.&nbsp; From a purely cash sense, many of these might be cut apart and sold by the page to decorators. That seems a crime but is has happened to other antiquarian books in subjects of interest to me. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My collection pretty much starts where yours leaves off.&nbsp; My Akerman was rebound sometime in the last 50-100 years to include a signed letter from Akerman in the front of each volume.&nbsp; On this one he advises against sending coins by mail and dismisses coins of Clodius Albinus as Augustus as less likely to be worthwhile than those as Caesar because they are found with poor execution.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316078[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1316079[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoy the premise of the books.&nbsp; He only lists rare coins omitting completely those too common to gain his attention and lists under each ruler the highest few in terms of rarity.&nbsp; The drawings are attractive but not of accurate style IMO reflecting the artist more than the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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