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<p>[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3548361, member: 95174"]I am sorry , I should have written it out, it is an obscure catalog that focuses on the 12th and 13th century of Byzantine coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Catalogue of Late Byzantine Coins, Volume I</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://orthodoxcoins.com/books/catalogue-of-late-byzantine-coins-vol1/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://orthodoxcoins.com/books/catalogue-of-late-byzantine-coins-vol1/" rel="nofollow">http://orthodoxcoins.com/books/catalogue-of-late-byzantine-coins-vol1/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The main author Val passed away a few years back so no volume two. The book is really good for the line drawings and the authors seemed to have used Coin Archives to judge rarity. Basically how often the coin had hit the market. This same technique is used in the art market for graphic works for Durer and Rembrandt. Unfortunately they skipped some previously proved knowledge about the coins making the text somewhat useless. However the drawings alone make the work worth the price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BenSi, post: 3548361, member: 95174"]I am sorry , I should have written it out, it is an obscure catalog that focuses on the 12th and 13th century of Byzantine coins. Catalogue of Late Byzantine Coins, Volume I [url]http://orthodoxcoins.com/books/catalogue-of-late-byzantine-coins-vol1/[/url] The main author Val passed away a few years back so no volume two. The book is really good for the line drawings and the authors seemed to have used Coin Archives to judge rarity. Basically how often the coin had hit the market. This same technique is used in the art market for graphic works for Durer and Rembrandt. Unfortunately they skipped some previously proved knowledge about the coins making the text somewhat useless. However the drawings alone make the work worth the price.[/QUOTE]
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