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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3552348, member: 74968&quot;]I never take the attribution from a website or auction house at face value. I always check the references in my own collection against the source I am researching. I have found many errors that way. I am always checking the references. My collection is up to date regarding RIC, but I still need to add RSC and BMCRE for some coins. I also find it interesting to find which coins are not in certain references. For example I have several coins that are not in BMCRE or RSC or the early RIC. I have a few that only appear in the updated RIC II Part 1 (2007).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another reason I always check the reference is that I have found some great rarities that way. With the coins of Domitian for example, misattributions are very common. The misattribution can result in finding out that a coin thought common is actually quite rare. I have of course found the opposite as well-an auction misattributes a coin as a rare type when in fact it is quite common. I have found that owning the references is a very good investment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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