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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 3444295, member: 10613"]Dealers often just copy the description from the reference they are using to look a coin up. I try to make corrections, if I know about them, but otherwise, I rely on my books. Copy and paste is an awesome time-saver but also means mistakes like this will continue (on a side note- I appreciate people messaging me on Vcoins if I have description errors) No dealer can know everything about all the coin types. Plus, there is coin volume...this week I catalogued over one hundred coins; which means I can't go down the research rabbit hole too many times-- though I frequently do get sidetracked.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have corrected this listing to the Draco description for years in coin descriptions, but my personal interests really start increasing around this period. If anyone has it, Van Meter's <i>Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins </i>(1991) says this about the type - "Cohen describes the staff as surmounted by the head of an ass. This is actually a draco battle standard indigenous among Dacian troops."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 3444295, member: 10613"]Dealers often just copy the description from the reference they are using to look a coin up. I try to make corrections, if I know about them, but otherwise, I rely on my books. Copy and paste is an awesome time-saver but also means mistakes like this will continue (on a side note- I appreciate people messaging me on Vcoins if I have description errors) No dealer can know everything about all the coin types. Plus, there is coin volume...this week I catalogued over one hundred coins; which means I can't go down the research rabbit hole too many times-- though I frequently do get sidetracked. I have corrected this listing to the Draco description for years in coin descriptions, but my personal interests really start increasing around this period. If anyone has it, Van Meter's [I]Handbook of Roman Imperial Coins [/I](1991) says this about the type - "Cohen describes the staff as surmounted by the head of an ass. This is actually a draco battle standard indigenous among Dacian troops."[/QUOTE]
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