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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;howards, post: 2271940, member: 299&quot;]Sorry I don&#039;t know what &quot;download regestry comp slow down program to New Intenet opened&quot; means.&nbsp; Please explain.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your point is that using obsolete reference books to attribute can lead to nonsense attributions, I agree with you.</p><p><br /></p><p>The date that the attribution was posted to the forum was 7/12/15.&nbsp; Also, &quot;FS-1304&quot; was given.&nbsp; That number is only available in very recent editions of CPG.&nbsp; How do you know what book Paddy54 used?&nbsp; He didn&#039;t say.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original attribution also said &quot;F-408&quot;.&nbsp; If one understands Fletcher&#039;s numbering system, one doesn&#039;t even need photos to know that F-408 is incorrect (because F-408 implies a reverse IIc).</p><p><br /></p><p>------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>The above is mostly factual, not opinion.&nbsp; The following is opinion:&nbsp; $50 for a good coin reference book is dirt cheap.&nbsp; You may have little idea how much effort goes into creating a coin reference, and how financially unrewarding it is given the limited market for the work.&nbsp; My shield nickel reference is a money loser - I do it as a labor of love.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If I were to try and print my reference work printing costs would dictate that I&#039;d have to charge well over $100 to break even.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I don&#039;t offer a printed version - it&#039;s a computer program which has low manufacturing costs.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one spends $50 on a good reference book that helps you with a purchase decision on a $50 coin, that&#039;s a very good deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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