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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2281180, member: 76194"]In all fairness, how many catalogs on Roman coins have been published? The list is not extensive. This is simply one man's labor of love, and the research he conducted in the 1850's (based on the information he had available to him) on a ton of Roman coins that were made available to him for study. Much of the sources he relied on probably don't even exist anymore. That his book still exists, and is still available in printed format (you can order a new copy of the book if you want from Amazon) says a lot about the quality of his work. If it was garbage I doubt there would still be a market for this book more than 150 years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was the author perfect? Of course not, but he seems to have done a good job putting it all together, and enough people found value in his work that it still survives and is in print.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2281180, member: 76194"]In all fairness, how many catalogs on Roman coins have been published? The list is not extensive. This is simply one man's labor of love, and the research he conducted in the 1850's (based on the information he had available to him) on a ton of Roman coins that were made available to him for study. Much of the sources he relied on probably don't even exist anymore. That his book still exists, and is still available in printed format (you can order a new copy of the book if you want from Amazon) says a lot about the quality of his work. If it was garbage I doubt there would still be a market for this book more than 150 years later. Was the author perfect? Of course not, but he seems to have done a good job putting it all together, and enough people found value in his work that it still survives and is in print.[/QUOTE]
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