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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4053886, member: 19463&quot;]I appreciate any effort made to explain to those of us who are not Domitian specialists (am I the only one who does not consider him most interesting?) why a certain rare coin is of interest other than the fact that there are relatively fewer of them known.&nbsp; I do find a bit of added interest in any DES coin but no enough to want all the date varieties even in a series I consider a specialty.&nbsp; It is nice to know what makes one number better than any random other from what seems to the non-specialist a &quot;just another&quot; of a very long series.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I own Cohen and got a lot of good from it back in &#039;the day&#039; but I was more interested in what existed than in having a catalog number.&nbsp; I appreciate the ease of use of the alphabetical system but never understood the wisdom of ignoring things like mintmarks lacking even notes like &quot;this type was issued by 12 mints with many minor variations.&quot;&nbsp; My use of Cohen was reduced when I bought BMC but BMC always bothered me by promoting the idea that coins after their end date were inferior and not worth collecting.&nbsp; A continuation of BMC would have been at least 12 more books.&nbsp; Neither has every coin; no book does.&nbsp; Both have their place in the hobby but neither is indispensable.&nbsp; Cohen should be cheap since it follows the unpopular alphabetical arrangement and exists in old hardbound and more recent paperback reprints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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