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<p>[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 4723523, member: 99554"]Thanks. I'm always trying to write in a way that even a beginner collector will not get lost in too many technical details. About Saturninus, an excellent paper was published by S.Estiot in 2002. She goes much deeper in her analysis of this usurper, but an apprentice numismatist might get bored after a few pages. What I like to do is tell an interesting story about coinage and then embellishing it with old documents that are rarely consulted. Finding the right pages of the <i>Revue numismatique</i> 1898 was a real challenge, the discovery of the add in <i>The numismatist</i> was a coincidence and I had a lot of luck with the <i>Catalogue de la vente de Raymond Serrure 1895</i>; it's impossible to find it anywhere online, it had not been digitalized in any librairie in the world...but there was a copy for sale on a specialized site. The seller was showing a picture of the cover of the book, and one of a page containing exactly the pictures of the plates I was looking for ! Finally just had to translate from French to English "<i>et le tour est joué".</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 4723523, member: 99554"]Thanks. I'm always trying to write in a way that even a beginner collector will not get lost in too many technical details. About Saturninus, an excellent paper was published by S.Estiot in 2002. She goes much deeper in her analysis of this usurper, but an apprentice numismatist might get bored after a few pages. What I like to do is tell an interesting story about coinage and then embellishing it with old documents that are rarely consulted. Finding the right pages of the [I]Revue numismatique[/I] 1898 was a real challenge, the discovery of the add in [I]The numismatist[/I] was a coincidence and I had a lot of luck with the [I]Catalogue de la vente de Raymond Serrure 1895[/I]; it's impossible to find it anywhere online, it had not been digitalized in any librairie in the world...but there was a copy for sale on a specialized site. The seller was showing a picture of the cover of the book, and one of a page containing exactly the pictures of the plates I was looking for ! Finally just had to translate from French to English "[I]et le tour est joué".[/I][/QUOTE]
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