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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2403789, member: 19463&quot;]I envy you modern collectors if in fact you have books to cover everything.&nbsp; I collect ancients and have several hundred bound paper things but to majority of them are either out of date or cover so small a part of a subject that finding a match between a question and an answer is a matter of luck.&nbsp; Certainly the situation is not better for websites but we are working on it.&nbsp; For example the hopelessly out of date and incomplete book Roman Imperial Coinage volume V part 1 has an update in progress in the form of&nbsp; a French website which has a better chance of reaching completion than does any paper based project.</p><p><br /></p><p>Worst, in my opinion, is the fact that so many books and websites concentrate on cataloging what is known to exist but skims over the whys, hows and other side trips into understanding the coinage in question.&nbsp; There are exceptions like a couple recent print format volumes on very short periods in the 1st century BC Roman Republican coinage by Michael Harlan.&nbsp; These cover 81BC to 49BC in Rome beyond the &#039;what&#039; but are not matched by the thousand other periods we might like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate the old saying suggesting we &#039;buy the book&#039; but when we suggest someone do this I&#039;d prefer there were a book worth buying on the subject in question.&nbsp; I know nothing about modern Spanish coppers so I know nothing to recommend or whether it exists as a website or a book.&nbsp; In ancients, I fear the trend in publishing is going more to softcopy simply because a paper and boards book needs to be very general and popular if it is to have hope for covering expenses.&nbsp; Will this make paper based information part of the experience of noname&#039;s generation as it was with ours?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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