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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2852740, member: 75937&quot;]My copies of the book arrived in the mail yesterday and I&#039;ve looked through them in a fair amount of depth. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some things the books do DIFFERENTLY than other reference works:</p><p><br /></p><p>It only includes denarii and antoniniani. Gold and base-metal coinage is not listed.</p><p><br /></p><p>It arranges them by reverse TYPE, not reverse inscription. Thus, denarii of Faustina Senior with Vesta on the reverse are listed together, regardless of whether the reverse inscription reads AVGVSTA or VESTA</p><p><br /></p><p>Some things the books do WELL:</p><p><br /></p><p>EVERY known bust type is represented, described, and illustrated</p><p>EVERY COIN given a number is illustrated, not just described</p><p>Coins of mints outside of Rome are included and illustrated, so that one should be able to attribute to mint with a bit of comparison.</p><p>Every entry also contains cross-references to RIC, RSC, and Sear (I have not checked these for accuracy, however).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some things the books do NOT do well:</p><p><br /></p><p>The described inscriptions are often in error, particularly in the Julia Domna section. Coins that clearly read IVLIA AVGVSTA in the photos (and the standard reference works) may be listed as having a IVLIA DOMNA AVG inscription in the description. Similarly, the denarius with Cybele standing, with a clear photo reading MATRI DEVM on the reverse inscription, is described as reading MATER DEVM. ALWAYS cross-check your coins against the PHOTOS, not the description.</p><p><br /></p><p>English is not Temeryazav and Makarenko&#039;s native language--I get that--but they could have benefited greatly from a copy editor whose native language is English. There are extraneous (ungrammatical) commas thrown all about its stilted prose and misspellings abound. </p><p><br /></p><p>If this book is print-on-demand and the authors would like me to correct it, I volunteer my services to do it for free. Perhaps [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] could let them know of this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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