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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 8455449, member: 82322&quot;][USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER] has given a good list of places to find online catalogs.&nbsp; However, you won&#039;t find many catalogs there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Original catalogs before 1970 are &quot;collectable&quot;.&nbsp; You can often buy them from numismatic booksellers.</p><p>Catalogs after 2000 are often online.&nbsp; (Although some important sales, like the Geminis, aren&#039;t.).</p><p>Catalogs from 1970 to 2000 are something of a hole in history.&nbsp; They are not online nor are the available to purchase.&nbsp; I recently picked up 174 catalogs from this period from an estate.&nbsp; Because these catalogs sell for less than shipping both ways and cataloging, numismatic book dealers often don&#039;t accept them.&nbsp; If you can find the right seller, stock up!</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was trying to do a die study I went to the ANS library in New York City and flipped through physical catalogs.&nbsp; There was (and is) no other way to do it.&nbsp; Dr. Flueck from ex-Numis paid someone to scan his extensive catalog library.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have catalog scans myself, and even if I did I couldn&#039;t make them available because of copyright reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>It can be frustrating.&nbsp; I bought a Celtic coin and it came with black and white photos that had been cut out in the shape of the coin for printing in a catalog.&nbsp; It is likely published somewhere, but I have no clue where![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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