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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2045313, member: 19463&quot;]It is great when the right coin falls into the right collection and this very nice lady belongs with our local specialist in coins of empresses. </p><p><br /></p><p>It might help understand the Reka Devnia numbers better if we compared the 10 rating here with a few others.&nbsp; Lucilla&#039;s Venus Victrix leads her coins with 205 specimens of the total of 1049 Lucillae.&nbsp; Julia Domna tops out with 300 Pietas Publica (and has another 204 Pietas Augg) out of her 3409 coins.&nbsp; There are a number of coins from many rulers listed as 1 in the hoard and there are quite a few coins that you have seen here (mostly Martin&#039;s) that are unlisted since there were none in the hoard. </p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I bid on an original copy and lost.&nbsp; It went very high as I recall and was in quite poor shape which I was told was common for the type high acid paper used in 1934.&nbsp; The reprints sold new for $25 + postage and I can not recall seeing any of them resold used.&nbsp; Most of us that bought them must still want ours.&nbsp; The book has faults.&nbsp; It is arranged by Cohen numbers so you can not tell how many, for example,&nbsp; Eastern mint Domnas are included in the count for a type used at Rome and one or more of the Eastern mints.&nbsp; The plates only show coins not listed in Cohen.&nbsp; I would love to hear if anyone sees a listing for a used copy (original or reprint) just because I am curious what people might pay for it today.&nbsp; The greatest shame is that it is the only huge hoard we have for such reference.&nbsp; It would be great to have an overview hoard of 80,000 coins from the later 3rd century or the periods covered by RIC VI through VIII (even if there was no separation by mintmarks?).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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