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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2369457, member: 44316&quot;]I had Hunter volumes III, IV, and V. Years ago Volume V (Tetrarchy and later) was one of the best for images of late Roman coins and it had some AE types that made my want list. Volume IV also covered the late third century with photos better than other books. BMC did not cover coins that late and RIC, which does cover late Roman coins, had only a limited number of coins photographed. I like the idea of seeing a collection, as opposed to just whatever is on the market at the time, but now, photographs of coins are everywhere and having a print book with little text is not as useful as it once was. So, I sold them</p><p><br /></p><p>I contrast Roman coin books with only photos to books with commentary as well. For example, &quot;Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from Arcadius and Honorius to the Accession of Anastasius&quot; has 344 pages of discussion and 29 pages of indices to go along with the 955 illustrated coins. If you like that time period, that is a book worth having. No amount of looking on the web can tell you one-fifth of what that book lays out clearly.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remark that serious collectors of Greek coins can benefit from far more reference works than collectors of Roman coins. Roman coins are easily organized in RIC. The series &quot;Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum&quot; (SNG) has volumes with illustrations of the coins in outstanding collections of valuable Greek coins, but almost no commentary. It may take many SNG volumes to find a reference for any given Greek coin type. However, there are still very useful because with SNG&#039;s you can see what types exist in a way that cannot be done with only the web.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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