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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1242479, member: 26302&quot;]I would give up the coins. I love my coins, but I simply love knowledge more. Without the history and coin reference books all the coins are little lumps of metal. Attractive, yes, but not as fascinating.</p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily for me my father made me a set of book shelves made out of 3/4 inch oak shelves. It takes that, and lots of supports, to handle the weight I am afraid. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I am different than many here. I think I use coins to force myself to learn. I see a coin, maybe know a little about it, yet once I buy it I want to read and know all there is about the issue. This is why I like having the references. I can see examples in major collections, read the references about it, read different authors opinions of them, etc. Even if I do not buy a new coin, sitting down and reading a Michael Michiner title, or reviewing Nabatean Coins, or simply paging through Hoberman&#039;s excellent photography book relaxes me, and I learn more. It was from me paging through &quot;Byzantine Coins&quot; that I recognized my Ostrogothic coin when I first saw it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I am somewhat hoping to create for Hepthalite coins. There is no single publication for these coins, somewhere to learn what little history we know, who they were, where and when they lived, and the coins associated with them. I have a few books in Russian, a few pages from some history books, a PhD dissertation from Berlin, and hopefully some references from the upcoming auction to try to piece together some semblance of a booklet. I am simply trying to put together what I would have liked to have when I first got interested in these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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