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<p>[QUOTE="DiomedesofArgos, post: 5334197, member: 115035"]My opinion as a newer collector and as a collector that mostly buys coins already attributed is that I really dislike books with plates. I understand that plates make it easy to scan through and find a match for coins you need to identify. I also get that many coin books are old and that lots of older books used plates for photographs because that's just how things needed to be published in those days. For my needs, I really hate to read about a coin and then have to go to the back to see the coin. Back and forth, back and forth. So while I understand that the Dumbarton Oaks catalogs contain much valuable information, I hate the format. I also dislike that not all coins described are photographed. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for books I do like, I have a volume of the CNG Handbook of Greek Coinage series. Every coin description is accompanied by a picture of the coin, so no hunting around. Not a fan of the black and white images, especially given that they are fairly recent publications, but I guess with ancient coin collection being so niche and the books probably being low volume, it maybe wasn't economical to use color images. IIRC, the coins are shown as actual size which is nice too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like Catalogue of Late Byzantine Coins, Volume I. It has illustrations of an ideal perfect coin rather than pictures. The Byzantine scyphate coins are often poorly struck, so seeing what a coin theoretically should look like is really nice. I like that each page is dedicated to a single coin and also being relatively recent (only 10 years old, which seems like it's still an infant compared to many coin books), the information is much more up to date. I really hope they eventually complete Volume 2 for Palaiologian coinage because many of those coins are struck just awful and I'd love to see them illustrated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DiomedesofArgos, post: 5334197, member: 115035"]My opinion as a newer collector and as a collector that mostly buys coins already attributed is that I really dislike books with plates. I understand that plates make it easy to scan through and find a match for coins you need to identify. I also get that many coin books are old and that lots of older books used plates for photographs because that's just how things needed to be published in those days. For my needs, I really hate to read about a coin and then have to go to the back to see the coin. Back and forth, back and forth. So while I understand that the Dumbarton Oaks catalogs contain much valuable information, I hate the format. I also dislike that not all coins described are photographed. As for books I do like, I have a volume of the CNG Handbook of Greek Coinage series. Every coin description is accompanied by a picture of the coin, so no hunting around. Not a fan of the black and white images, especially given that they are fairly recent publications, but I guess with ancient coin collection being so niche and the books probably being low volume, it maybe wasn't economical to use color images. IIRC, the coins are shown as actual size which is nice too. I also like Catalogue of Late Byzantine Coins, Volume I. It has illustrations of an ideal perfect coin rather than pictures. The Byzantine scyphate coins are often poorly struck, so seeing what a coin theoretically should look like is really nice. I like that each page is dedicated to a single coin and also being relatively recent (only 10 years old, which seems like it's still an infant compared to many coin books), the information is much more up to date. I really hope they eventually complete Volume 2 for Palaiologian coinage because many of those coins are struck just awful and I'd love to see them illustrated.[/QUOTE]
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