Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2041149, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://snible.org/coins/bmc/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/bmc/" rel="nofollow">http://snible.org/coins/bmc/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We all have BMC via the above but these are not the easiest books to use even with the indices and we need to remember that BMC is a list of coins they owned when the book was published (a long time ago) so you will find things missing that you want.&nbsp; I remember once regretting that I could not afford the set but that was long before we had the online versions.&nbsp; Now the reason to own the books is because we like the feel of paper in our fingers.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad I did not pay the money for a set back then. </p><p><br /></p><p>A word of warning, many reprints of old books with photos have really poor plates.&nbsp; Some BMC are illustrated with line drawings which reprint well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now the big question:&nbsp; Which is more likely to contain correct information: A public domain BMC Sicily of 1876, a copyrighted specialty work like Boehringer Syracuse or current websites online maintained by an assortment of people from many backgrounds and countries like wildwinds or the Russian <a href="http://ancientcoins.narod.ru/rbc/Boehringer/Boehringer1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ancientcoins.narod.ru/rbc/Boehringer/Boehringer1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://ancientcoins.narod.ru/rbc/Boehringer/Boehringer1.htm</a> ?&nbsp; </p><p>Building a useful library is at least as hard as building a collection of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in