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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4510436, member: 110350&quot;]I love reading well-informed reviews of books about coins, and I&#039;ve read all of yours, and those at augustuscoins, before -- and was looking through them again this afternoon!&nbsp; I find it interesting that even though the Vagi and Van Meter books have both been around for 20 years or so, they still haven&#039;t penetrated the market enough for individual dealers or collectors or auction sites to include references to them in their coin descriptions.&nbsp; It seems to me that for Roman Imperial coins, the most common catalog references are still to RIC, followed by the volumes of Sear&#039;s RCV and, for silver coins, RSC.&nbsp; Occasionally one sees the BMCRE reference number.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever seen a reference to a coin&#039;s Vagi or Van Meter numbers, and ERIC II references are rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Roman Republican coins, of course, it&#039;s almost always Crawford, RSC I and Sear&#039;s RCV I.&nbsp; To show how bound by tradition people are, one still often sees the Sydenham numbers, even though that book has been out of date for almost 50 years now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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