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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3095518, member: 76194&quot;]Yes, but then again most ancients catalogs and the bulk of ancient coin books were published 50 or 60 years ago. There isn&#039;t exactly a plethora of new material around, so I can understand why some old notions persist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heck, have you noticed the tons of coins on Vcoins being sold at exorbitant prices because they are &quot;unpublished&quot;? Who would have thought that in a pre-internet, pre-globalization era where the world was divided by a Cold War that these catalog compilers missed publishing coins that today we know about and are not super rare, and many of those that were published and deemed &quot;rare&quot; we now know to be a lot more common, especially after the fall of the Eastern block. What I&#039;m getting at is that these catalogs and sources we rely on, many of them are somewhat outdated by now and in bad need of modern revisions. If you rely eclusively on these catalogs and old books to tell you the background of a coin, the history or composition of a coin, and what&#039;s rare or not, you are going to get badly burned by unscrupulous dealers hoping you are not up to date on your stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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