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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 969365, member: 19463&quot;]&quot;self imposed tax&quot;&nbsp; Pay it.&nbsp; If Raisel makes $1 on ERIC2 someone might deside to do a book on Greek and I&#039;d really like to see that one.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For the record, &#039;free&#039; is a hard term to pin down.&nbsp; For my site the main expense was coins I bought that I might not have otherwise because I needed something to illustrate a certain point on a page I was planning.&nbsp; Some of that expense my come back if my grandson sells my collection when I&#039;m gone.&nbsp; Will you pay extra for a coin you remember as being featured on my site?&nbsp; I doubt it but someone in my family tree hopes so.&nbsp; My &#039;free&#039; site has considerable expense all bourne by Bill Puetz of VCoins who supplies the free web hosting to sites like mine on Ancients.info.&nbsp; If you patronize VCoins you are paying a bit of the bill for my site.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The only coins books that hold value are the best and the latest of their genre.&nbsp; ERICII is coming out awfully close to ERICI but the same thing happens to RIC, Sear and other catalog type books when they are replaced.&nbsp; At the moment RIC V (not a very good book for what it covers) sells for good money but will plummet when a new and improved one goes to press even if thr original is Public Domain by then.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Book publishing has changed.&nbsp; There was a time you could get really good books at remaindered book sales for a couple dollars just because someone guessed wrong and printed too many.&nbsp; Modern technology makes it easier to avoid having 10,000 mistakes in the warehouse so I doubt you will see too many $1.98 EricII sales.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Books that hold value forever are those that are better than anything that follows or never are followed by anything remotely similar.&nbsp; The Hartill Chinese Cash book will hurt the demand for photocopies of some earlier books that have been hard to find for a long time.&nbsp; These books rarely are <u>just</u> catalogues with collector prices (who wants a 1975 Seaby <b>Greek Coins and their Values</b>?) but tend to present information as well as a laundry list of types.&nbsp; Collectors are terrible about not buying books that don&#039;t serve as a checklist for buying so most books end up with catalogs as well as text.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather see more explanation and fewer tables but I&#039;m wierd.&nbsp; I would love to see RIC published without the catalogs - just the chapter heads and plates all in one volume would make a decent book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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