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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2456382, member: 44316&quot;]I have the red Republican series (nine volumes) and use it to see what excellent examples look like (for that, it is better than web searches, so far. I&#039;m sure the web will catch up). It is organized by family, not chronologically. I think any advanced collector would like to have it, but it is not an up-to-date reference for the dates or backgrounds of the types. It is a large number of images reproduced from old paper catalogs. </p><p><br /></p><p>The green Imperial series is also primarily a large number of images reproduced from old paper catalogs. It is hard to use. It have very numerous pictures of each type, often finely classified by minor differences. You can learn a lot about frequency of types, and provenances are given. However, it was a grand project that didn&#039;t receive much favor and stopped dead in the middle of Nero after 18 volumes. It is not easy (possible) to pick volumes that cover what you want, and not easy to use the awkward indexes to find what you want. Coins of a given emperor are spread across several volumes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back when I was interested in imitations Banti and Simonetti was remarkable for the 70 (!) pages of Claudian imitations it illustrated. No other source came close. If you can afford expensive coins from this time period and like books and have shelf space, you might have fun with the 18 volumes which won&#039;t cost more than one excellent coin. If you buy individual volumes you will almost certainly be frustrated by not having the neighboring volumes where the work continues. There seems to have been an attempt to make all volumes the same thickness, but no attempt to &quot;finish off&quot; a topic by the end of the volume.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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