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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3542885, member: 81887&quot;]Thanks for the compliment on my knowledge, I&#039;ll try not to let it go to my head <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Yes, I suppose my numismatic library does look small compared to some others here.&nbsp; I think there are several factors:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I don&#039;t have any auction catalogues in the shelf.&nbsp; I had to get rid of a bunch of CNG/Berk/Album etc. catalogues in my last move. </p><p>2. In some cases, I can look up information online instead of having to keep a hard copy occupying my limited bookshelf space.&nbsp; I prefer to use books when I can, but I also see the usefulness of doing research on the Internet as well.&nbsp; (Of course, usual warnings apply, and not all websites are equally trustworthy; but for that matter, not all books are equally trustworthy.)</p><p>3. There are some lacunae in the Parthicus Library.&nbsp; I have almost nothing on Medieval European, and not a lot on Greek (the &quot;Greek Greeks&quot;, not the &quot;Oriental Greeks&quot; of Phoenicia, Persia, etc.).&nbsp; This reflects my collecting interests.&nbsp; If I decide to collect more in those areas, I will purchase the appropriate references.</p><p>4. That said, there are quite a lot of excellent, information-dense references on that shelf.&nbsp; All three volumes of Mitchiner&#039;s &quot;Oriental Coins and Their Values&quot; series, all of David Sear&#039;s &quot;X Coins and Their Values&quot; books (the Roman one is the 4th edition, the last single-volume edition), the first three volumes of RIC, Stevenson&#039;s &quot;Dictionary of Roman Coins&quot;, Parthian references of Sellwood and Shore, Gobl&#039;s &quot;Sasanian Numismatics&quot;, the Sunrise Collection, Richard Plant&#039;s &quot;Arabic Coins and How to Read Them&quot; and &quot;Greek, Semitic, and Asiatic Coins and How to Read Them&quot;, Album&#039;s checklist of Islamic coins, Hartill&#039;s books on Chinese and Japanese cash, the two-volume Krause Standard Catalogue of World Coins (ANA Centennial Edition, covers 1800-1990 fully with considerable coverage of 18th century), and others.&nbsp; Also, I try to read these books, not just hoard them <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; A book is just an inert object unless it is interacting with a human mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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