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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 3548645, member: 76221&quot;]Great coin, I hardly ever see those and don&#039;t have one.&nbsp; Of course, I&#039;m a cheep skate.&nbsp; I have a quite beautiful Bulgarian imitative trachy I need to photo.&nbsp; I think I&#039;ll do that today.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just received a copy of CLBC in the mail last week and wrote to Val&#039;s son Svilen.&nbsp; I told him I really value the work his father did and asked what Vol II would cover.&nbsp; He let me know Val, his father had passed away so the project for II is not possible now, really too bad for his loss as well as ours.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Shipping and everything else went off smoothly to say the least.&nbsp; I recommend the book to anyone interested in schyphates.&nbsp; The line drawings are perfect examples.</p><p>It is necessary that one have looked at a lot to understand the function of the line drawings.&nbsp; It&#039;s a fill in the blacks process; very few look like the drawings.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find that a passion for the subject is mandatory.&nbsp; I found myself going from CLBC to Henden, to DOC and leaving all three open while re-examining some of my own</p><p>that I hadn&#039;t been able to decipher as to issuer.&nbsp; The combination of all three did help a lot.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>One other book is also quite helpful which is <i>Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453 In The Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford </i>by Eleni Lianta published by Spink in 2009.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now I need to get busy with the camera.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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