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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8450891, member: 26430"]It takes a little practice with each site to figure out which firms' are available where and how to find them, including potential language obstacles (the two possibly best sites are in French & German).</p><p><br /></p><p>With apologies to others for revealing some small secrets of internet provenance research (most inclined to do it either know or will find out, and it still takes work!):</p><p><br /></p><p><b>BNF (Gallica)</b> Online Catalog: <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/" rel="nofollow">https://gallica.bnf.fr/</a> (superb quality, some great coverage);</p><p><b>INHA</b> Library (Bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art):</p><p><a href="https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/en/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/en/" rel="nofollow">https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/en/</a> (usually good quality, maybe not always);</p><p><b>Heidi</b>: <a href="https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html</a> (usually the best quality images and an interface that I find superior);</p><p><b>Internet Archive</b>: <a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/</a> (variable quality, sometimes w/ multiple copies for a single sale, sometimes including hand-named copies, giving further provenance leads, from the ANS collection or ANS-via-Hamelberg collection);</p><p><b>ACSearch Library</b>: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/library.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/library.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/library.html</a> (maybe you need the free account, mostly decent reproductions);</p><p><b>Hathitrust</b>: <a href="https://www.hathitrust.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hathitrust.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hathitrust.org/</a> (often bad image quality on plates);</p><p>And don't forget Google Books, though the image quality is usually low;</p><p>[<i>Edit, good one [USER=93146]@scarborough[/USER] , below!</i>] <b>Newman Portal</b>: <a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/" rel="nofollow">https://nnp.wustl.edu/</a></p><p>[<i>Edit, for recent catalogs from CNA, CNG, Berk, Gemini, others</i>] <b>Issuu</b>: <a href="https://issuu.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/" rel="nofollow">https://issuu.com/</a></p><p><b>Dealer sites/pdf archives</b>: Several dealers include archives of pdf catalogs, some duplicating or linking to sites above: <a href="https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/catalogs/home" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/catalogs/home" rel="nofollow">HJB (Berk)</a>, <a href="https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/catalogues/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/catalogues/" rel="nofollow">Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC)</a>, <a href="https://www.koelner-muenzkabinett.de/auktionen/archiv/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.koelner-muenzkabinett.de/auktionen/archiv/" rel="nofollow"><b>Kolner Munzkabinett Archives</b></a> starting with Auktion 1 (1968). Lanz used to have many available, but they went away when the website was downsized. Some are still on Yumpu (or Yumpu German), though I don't like Yumpu (as are a few Gitta Kastner, the Lanz predecessor).</p><p><br /></p><p>For some firms, like NFA, you may have to patch together a couple of those sources and still not have a complete run. For others, like the Naville - Ars Classica, you can find numerous copies of every single catalog spread across those sites. (But of variable quality and/or "bound together" with other catalogs if that's how the original was.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I think many (most?) of the full-text/online catalogs linked by rNumis redirect to those sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some sites are better than others. But I've so far reviewed and annotated somewhere between 1-2,000 of them for my own database (meant to ultimately be posted online as Steve does with rNumis, or McCabe and WWE with their annotated catalog collections) and haven't come close to exhausting what's available.</p><p><br /></p><p>And beware that ancient coin auction catalogs and provenance hunting can literally become an all-day every-day addiction! But in the end, I find it's much cheaper than buying more coins w/ less research-per-coin, so I'm happy with it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8450891, member: 26430"]It takes a little practice with each site to figure out which firms' are available where and how to find them, including potential language obstacles (the two possibly best sites are in French & German). With apologies to others for revealing some small secrets of internet provenance research (most inclined to do it either know or will find out, and it still takes work!): [B]BNF (Gallica)[/B] Online Catalog: [URL]https://gallica.bnf.fr/[/URL] (superb quality, some great coverage); [B]INHA[/B] Library (Bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art): [URL]https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/en/[/URL] (usually good quality, maybe not always); [B]Heidi[/B]: [URL]https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/digilit.html[/URL] (usually the best quality images and an interface that I find superior); [B]Internet Archive[/B]: [URL]https://archive.org/[/URL] (variable quality, sometimes w/ multiple copies for a single sale, sometimes including hand-named copies, giving further provenance leads, from the ANS collection or ANS-via-Hamelberg collection); [B]ACSearch Library[/B]: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/library.html[/URL] (maybe you need the free account, mostly decent reproductions); [B]Hathitrust[/B]: [URL]https://www.hathitrust.org/[/URL] (often bad image quality on plates); And don't forget Google Books, though the image quality is usually low; [[I]Edit, good one [USER=93146]@scarborough[/USER] , below![/I]] [B]Newman Portal[/B]: [URL]https://nnp.wustl.edu/[/URL] [[I]Edit, for recent catalogs from CNA, CNG, Berk, Gemini, others[/I]] [B]Issuu[/B]: [URL]https://issuu.com/[/URL] [B]Dealer sites/pdf archives[/B]: Several dealers include archives of pdf catalogs, some duplicating or linking to sites above: [URL='https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/catalogs/home']HJB (Berk)[/URL], [URL='https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/catalogues/']Numismatica Ars Classica (NAC)[/URL], [URL='https://www.koelner-muenzkabinett.de/auktionen/archiv/'][B]Kolner Munzkabinett Archives[/B][/URL] starting with Auktion 1 (1968). Lanz used to have many available, but they went away when the website was downsized. Some are still on Yumpu (or Yumpu German), though I don't like Yumpu (as are a few Gitta Kastner, the Lanz predecessor). For some firms, like NFA, you may have to patch together a couple of those sources and still not have a complete run. For others, like the Naville - Ars Classica, you can find numerous copies of every single catalog spread across those sites. (But of variable quality and/or "bound together" with other catalogs if that's how the original was.) I think many (most?) of the full-text/online catalogs linked by rNumis redirect to those sites. Some sites are better than others. But I've so far reviewed and annotated somewhere between 1-2,000 of them for my own database (meant to ultimately be posted online as Steve does with rNumis, or McCabe and WWE with their annotated catalog collections) and haven't come close to exhausting what's available. And beware that ancient coin auction catalogs and provenance hunting can literally become an all-day every-day addiction! But in the end, I find it's much cheaper than buying more coins w/ less research-per-coin, so I'm happy with it.[/QUOTE]
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