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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3204729, member: 19463&quot;]Having nothing to do with slab labels, the fact today is that many more coins will be identifiable because almost every list now photographs every coin and not just the high end material.&nbsp; The Dattari collection became a valuable reference because it illustrated so many coins that were not shown in most books.&nbsp; In my Septimius Severus interest, it seemed important to own certain sale catalogs (Arnold, Kelly) because so few illustrated catalogs bothered with such ordinary coins.&nbsp; I wonder how the &#039;cheap photo&#039; era we have today will effect the book trade in the next century.&nbsp;&nbsp; I enjoy the Emmett book on Alexandrian coins but it has very few photos.&nbsp; Add it to the thousands of online dealer images we have today and the thousands expected each year, when will the expensive illustrated references of the last century be made unnecessary by the combination of unillstrated texts and online image sources.&nbsp; The big difference is the searchability of online images compared to having to guess which catalog might have illustrated that type. How will this change in the upcoming years?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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