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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24604028, member: 26430&quot;][USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER] -- That Spanheim is fantastic! I love that you were able to find the coin in question in the BnF from Louis XIV&#039;s collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Howgego is one that I really value. Such a monumental work, and there still doesn&#039;t really seem to be any substitute for it. (But RPC Online now has many countermarks indexed and cross-referenced with Howgego: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark</a> ; and there are some other scholars who have posted useful countermark references online, e.g., <a href="https://niedersachsen.academia.edu/UlrichWerz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://niedersachsen.academia.edu/UlrichWerz" rel="nofollow">Werz, Ulrich</a> ; <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/ACampana" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://independent.academia.edu/ACampana" rel="nofollow">Campana, Alberto</a> ; <a href="http://romancoins.info/Countermarks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romancoins.info/Countermarks.html" rel="nofollow">Pangerl-Baker</a>; <a href="https://milanocastello.academia.edu/RodolfoMartini" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://milanocastello.academia.edu/RodolfoMartini" rel="nofollow">R. Martini</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Those Meshorer books (the 1999 <i>Samarian Coinage</i> with Qedar) and the Sofaer Holy Land volumes are both on my list. I&#039;ve got the 1991 Meshorer &amp; Qedar, which has the full Samaria Hoard illustrated/described in detail, so I&#039;d like to see how they compare. And most of the other ANS volumes in the Ancient Coins in North American Collections series; I still need Sofaer and Houghton (the big ones!).</p><p><br /></p><p>What you say about the references available online and/or in PDF now is very true. Because of that, no matter how many print copies of books or auction catalogs one owns, it&#039;s still the case that everyone&#039;s library is now 90% (or more) the same, since so much is publicly available (of course, the 10% includes a lot of the most important, like RIC, etc.). Especially counting all the articles/books on Academia, JSTOR, and similar places.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, there is also the good old fashioned brick-and-mortar library! Fortunately, my local university library has a great numismatics section. (Harlan Berk and Shanna Schmidt both went to school here; I know HJB donated a bunch of coins to the museum&#039;s collection, so some of the books may be theirs too.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been visiting more recently. There&#039;s more, but here are a couple of the shelves I been getting into, including the SNG&#039;s (Lockett, von Aulock, Levante), which I don&#039;t have:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Classics Library (May 2023)</i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563385[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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