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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mat, post: 2849536, member: 21445&quot;]Picked these up on Amazon not too long ago. They were $17 each and I had gift cards to burn off.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s26.postimg.org/m4reafy6x/DSC_0010.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://s26.postimg.org/8qebeerix/image.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not much of doing book reviews, but these are my thoughts on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The author made posts of them on Forvm and PCGS Boards &amp; even contacted me to use an image of a coin of mine of Julia Maesa for Vol. ii.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] also has many featured.</p><p><br /></p><p>What makes these books a bit different than ERIC or the like is this one tends to focus on how rare a type is via the portrait and bust style, mainly the hair &amp; how it&#039;s styled or what the empress is wearing on her head, or even something as simple as pearls or no pearls.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is, of course, some separation with the reverses i.e. stars &amp; their placements, or, something a god may or may not be holding and what not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vol II also features eastern mints. There are also hybrids featured as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually found it pretty interesting &amp; many of my coins would fall into the &quot;scarce&quot; to rare category the books place them in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did find the photos were clear enough to actually see the differences, but others with worse eyesight than me may need a magnifying glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>The authors tended to use how frequent the coins &amp; their types come to market, i.e. auction houses, Vcoins, how many are in collectors online galleries and so forth. Some I actually agree with, few I do not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Getting these books has made me focus a bit more on the bust types a bit more, but I doubt it&#039;s going to change the way I collect the empresses.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also doubt 90% of the collectors of ancients will care about minute details or even place more of a $ amount cause of it. It is interesting to look through and give some of your empress coins a second or even third glance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both are 94 pages &amp; all photos are in black and white.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rarity is based on the &quot;common, scarce,&nbsp; to R1 - R4&quot; style we see in other books.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I type this the authors told me that the next book will be focusing on Septimius Severus. [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] may know more since that is his &amp; Doug&#039;s area. Vol. iii of the empresses &quot;may&quot; be worked on after that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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