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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7975940, member: 19463"]I wish I had said that! To me, catalog numbers are ways of finding the listing in the catalog so you can learn something about that coin rather than being the reason for being in themselves. I can gain something from data, for example, that a certain mint used 'IMP C' while another used 'IMP CAE' but my understanding is not improved knowing that a certain item is RIC 1234. Also there is the problem of catalog numbers incorrectly generated from concordance listings by people who ignore the fact that different catalogs based listings in different ways so not all coins with the same Cohen or Sear number will have the same RIC or BMCRE number. </p><p><br /></p><p>Christians on this list may see the similarity here of the situation that came with the original edition of "The Message" Bible translation. It included the full text in English translation but did not include verse numbers. Those who like to quote out of context were unhappy with losing easy access to favorite passages and the editors soon released a Message with those numbers (noting that the original texts did not have those numbers either but they were added later for easier 'study'). To me, coin books that add no information other than a number are not worth quoting. Quoting an incorrect number is much worse than omitting it altogether.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7975940, member: 19463"]I wish I had said that! To me, catalog numbers are ways of finding the listing in the catalog so you can learn something about that coin rather than being the reason for being in themselves. I can gain something from data, for example, that a certain mint used 'IMP C' while another used 'IMP CAE' but my understanding is not improved knowing that a certain item is RIC 1234. Also there is the problem of catalog numbers incorrectly generated from concordance listings by people who ignore the fact that different catalogs based listings in different ways so not all coins with the same Cohen or Sear number will have the same RIC or BMCRE number. Christians on this list may see the similarity here of the situation that came with the original edition of "The Message" Bible translation. It included the full text in English translation but did not include verse numbers. Those who like to quote out of context were unhappy with losing easy access to favorite passages and the editors soon released a Message with those numbers (noting that the original texts did not have those numbers either but they were added later for easier 'study'). To me, coin books that add no information other than a number are not worth quoting. Quoting an incorrect number is much worse than omitting it altogether.[/QUOTE]
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