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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1241572, member: 19463&quot;]...and now for a word from the other side (devil&#039;s advocate).&nbsp; Chris, as a collector of long standing is right to be interested in such a sale but I would warn that well over half of the items that turn up in numismatic book sales are simply not worth the money unless you are a book collector above and beyond a coin collector.&nbsp; There are some that are outdated and some that are just plain wrong.&nbsp; For example, I bought the Philip Hill book on Septimius Severus when I first became interested in his coins and wonder where he got some of his detailed information that seemed to me to be unrelated to the other works and the coins I have seen.&nbsp; Other books sell for high prices but have been replaced for practical use by other works.&nbsp; Owning these is fun and interesting as long as you are advanced enough to realize that not everything you read in a hardcover book is Gospel truth.&nbsp; Certainly there is information in some not otherwise available and pictures of some rare coins that last sold over 100 years ago but we each have to ask how many books of this category we really need.&nbsp; I have a personal problem.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to sell my copy of Hill and a few dozen other books that I don&#039;t see myself reading in what time I have left but I could not, with straight face, offer them to someone without a note that I&#039;m selling these because I consider them worth less than the going price.&nbsp; It seems better to hold on to the lot and let my grandson deal with it at the same time he is trying to unload the coins.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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