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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2025159, member: 44316&quot;]I love my ancient-coin library and think many new collectors would appreciate the type of knowledge one gets by reading books instead of just following shallow discussions on the web. I have a website on collecting themes and related references (which is far from complete, especially with respect to books because I originally thought of it as a sale-catalog site and I have not had time to revise all of it)</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/Themes.html</a></p><p>which was originally organized by firm:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We enjoy our coins because of what we know about them. If you know more, you can enjoy them more. I think books are a very cost-effective &quot;investment&quot; in coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now, about Sear&#039;s series. I use volumes 1-3 for their ID numbers. Volume 3 is very much like volume 2 -- a very extensive list of coin types you might buy. If you use 2, you will use 3. Volume 1 is, to me, much more useful, being a nearly complete listing of Republican denarii. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sear 4 begins the period when the same type is issued by numerous mints with identifying mintmarks. I have all of RIC. I have not seen Sear 4 and don&#039;t know how it can add to a simple RIC attribution. I would like to hear someone&#039;s review of Sear 4.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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