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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2367161, member: 19463&quot;]Years ago when I was very, very specialized in coins of Septimius Severus I bought volume III of <b>Roman Imperial Coins in the Hunter Coin Cabinet</b> by Anne S. Robinson, a book detailing about 2000 coins from Pertinax to Aemilian owned by the University of Glasgow.&nbsp; The collection was mostly formed by William Hunter in the 18th century with about 10% added since. About 2/3 of the coins are illustrated in the 88 plates with a note in the text that the others were largely poor or duplicates.&nbsp; I do not remember what I paid for the book but Amazon now has one for $399 which I would not pay under and circumstances.&nbsp; I recall being disappointed in a couple things about the book.&nbsp; The collection included 172 coins of Septimius Severus from Rome.&nbsp; I lists two from Alexandria of which one actually is from Rome and the other is gold.&nbsp; There are ten from Emesa and 17 from Laodicea including a couple definite fakes.&nbsp; There are a few coins I have not seen anywhere else including a legend error from Emesa SPQR OTIMO PRINCIPI.&nbsp; The book listed six coins of Pescennius Niger including one that was clearly a Clodius Albinus as Augustus.&nbsp; One of the Clodius Albinus as Caesar coins was what is now recognized as Alexandria mint which pretty well shows that these were not modern fakes that showed up in the 1990&#039;s but just a style that went unrecognized.&nbsp; There are other errors in the book but it was for the most part well done.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Introduction mentions the previously issued two volumes (Augustus-Nerva and Trajan-Commodus) and the then forthcoming volume IV (Valerian-Allectus) which I have never seen (there is also a volume V going to Zeno).&nbsp; The set is ocassionally mentioned or quoted in sales but I find it interesting that CNG has a number of listings &quot;Hunter-&quot; for coins that fall after the time of Aemilian as if they were expecting volumes IV and later to have thee coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone else own one or more of these volumes?&nbsp; Do you find them of any use?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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