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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8243859, member: 26430&quot;]Oh, BTW, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] I forget to address part of your question above which is also an interesting one: </p><p><br /></p><p>I think American auctions may have always used photographs of the coins themselves, from the beginning (19th cent.; Fanning has noted somewhere that Americans were more suspicious of plaster cast photo, and Europeans more accepting for some reason). In Europe, it seems most auctions still used casts well after WWII. I haven&#039;t double-checked this, but according to <a href="https://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/RRAuctions.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/RRAuctions.html" rel="nofollow">Andrew McCabe&#039;s page on the topic</a>, they didn&#039;t stop photographing casts until about 1970 (and then primarily to save money/time).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not exactly sure how the timing &amp; geography translated in academic publishing. But there have been a number of great articles on related topics:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Hoover, </b>Oliver D (2012) “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/28753342/Paper_Plaster_Sulfur_Foil_A_Brief_History_of_Numismatic_Data_Transmission" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/28753342/Paper_Plaster_Sulfur_Foil_A_Brief_History_of_Numismatic_Data_Transmission" rel="nofollow">Paper, Plaster, Sulfur, Foil: A Brief History of Numismatic Data</a>” <i>ANS Magazine</i> (Spring 2012), pp. 18-26. [.pdf avail on Academia / 28753342]</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><b> Kraft</b>, Jesse (2021) “The Acrylic Slides of William Guild.” <i>ANS Magazine</i> (Fall 2021, Issue 3), pp. 28-41. [Not yet online?]</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting one on line-drawings/engravings:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Hollard</b>, Dominique<b>. </b>1991. “L&#039;illustration numismatique au XIXe siècle.” <i>Revue Numismatique</i>&nbsp; (Année 1991), 6th Series, Vol. 33:&nbsp; pp. 7-42 &amp; Pl. I- III. <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1991_num_6_33_1952" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1991_num_6_33_1952" rel="nofollow">https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1991_num_6_33_1952</a> </font></p><p><font size="4">Plates (&quot;<i>planches</i>&quot;) in separate pdf: <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1991_num_6_33_2709" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1991_num_6_33_2709" rel="nofollow">https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_1991_num_6_33_2709</a> </font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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