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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2415166, member: 56859"]From his book's preface:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The purpose of this book is to compile a list of the Alexandrian coins in all of the available published collections and auction catalogs, and to assign an approximated rarity for each one. This book does not list all of the Alexandrian coins extant, as there are a number of important collections that have not been published and a few early Alexandrian coin collection books could not be located. However, the unpublished Alexandrian coins from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the American Numismatic Society (ANS) are included in this book-- although confirmation of individual coins in these two collections will have to wait until the collections are properly published."</p><p><br /></p><p>Page xvii:</p><p><br /></p><p>"A coin assigned a rarity value of 5 would likely be found only in one or two of the published major Alexandrian collections..." etc</p><p><br /></p><p>Pages 264 through 269 list those sources. The auctions do not include every auction prior to the book's publication but I suspect they were auctions which included more Alexandrians than most.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems popular to sell groups of undescribed or incompletely imaged Alexandrian tetradrachms, especially from the later emperors, so that probably skews the data since there wouldn't be a way to accurately include those coins in the data.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2415166, member: 56859"]From his book's preface: "The purpose of this book is to compile a list of the Alexandrian coins in all of the available published collections and auction catalogs, and to assign an approximated rarity for each one. This book does not list all of the Alexandrian coins extant, as there are a number of important collections that have not been published and a few early Alexandrian coin collection books could not be located. However, the unpublished Alexandrian coins from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the American Numismatic Society (ANS) are included in this book-- although confirmation of individual coins in these two collections will have to wait until the collections are properly published." Page xvii: "A coin assigned a rarity value of 5 would likely be found only in one or two of the published major Alexandrian collections..." etc Pages 264 through 269 list those sources. The auctions do not include every auction prior to the book's publication but I suspect they were auctions which included more Alexandrians than most. It seems popular to sell groups of undescribed or incompletely imaged Alexandrian tetradrachms, especially from the later emperors, so that probably skews the data since there wouldn't be a way to accurately include those coins in the data.[/QUOTE]
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