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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2535276, member: 76086&quot;]This is true.&nbsp; Most dealers (well, those who are professional anyway) will not transfer your attributions (unless of course they are correct).&nbsp; They will independently verify and add to those that you may have.&nbsp; I am astonished by some of the attributions some &#039;dealers&#039; give.&nbsp; From a simple &#039;Hadrian Denarius&#039; (nothing else) to really odd and irrelevant things, like Van Meter.&nbsp; I have seen many mistakes copied over and over (and by some of your favorite and most well known dealers). Just because they have a giant website which is appreciated by many thousands, their many mistakes are simply copied endlessly.&nbsp; That is where books come in.&nbsp; I can verify the reference, but the vast majority cannot.&nbsp; Its why they copy the same mistake over and over.&nbsp; One of the pitfalls of the internet (am I advocating the purchase of books?&nbsp; Darned right!&nbsp; I dont want to be political, but &#039;trust, but verify&#039;).</p><p><br /></p><p>I do appreciate obscure references, like &#039;Foss&#039; (Roman collectors should have a copy), but for others I just shake my head.&nbsp; And it works both ways.&nbsp; Some dealers list insanely obscure references (some of which perhaps less than a dozen in the world have).&nbsp; I do get that.&nbsp; They are saying that they are the best of the best, they have a world class reference library.&nbsp; But does it do any good if only a few on earth can appreciate it?&nbsp; I dont think so.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT, demand for books and knowledge is the only way (economically) such information will be preserved.&nbsp; If there is a demand, more books will be printed.&nbsp; If not, well, the vast darkness of the internet and its ignorant mistakes will just take over.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I say, go out and buy a few books!&nbsp; Forget the &#039;free&#039; internet and its vast repetetive ignorance.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Wow.&nbsp; Re-reading this, seems like a rant.&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; Not really, I just wish to promote knowledge.&nbsp; In this age it is sometimes free, but frequently entirely wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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