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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2425295, member: 19463&quot;]I also like Emmett but echo the faults of lacking photos.&nbsp; As a photo hobbyist, I have that criticism of most books and believe most sincerely that this will be the downfall of books as we have known them since the invention of the printing press.&nbsp; Today, there is an answer.&nbsp; Photos in books are expensive. Online photos supporting the book are not.&nbsp; For a similar low price, a book can have a CD in a pocket at the back with proper images of every coin they could possibly include.&nbsp; When we did the book on Late Roman Bronzes by Victor Failmezger, I insisted (doing free photos gets you some rights) we offer the book with a CD of the plates.&nbsp; The disk was 275 MB (lots of space left on a CD, more on a DVD) and plates were clickable to bring up enlargements of 700+ coins (what we had).&nbsp; Some better coins were in two sizes but the smaller ones were large enough to fill most 2002 vintage monitors and retained correct relative sizes so small coins had a lot of space around them. </p><p>Sample small:[ATTACH=full]503164[/ATTACH]</p><p>sample large:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]503166[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The idea went over like a lead balloon.&nbsp; People did not care.&nbsp; Many dealers did not bother to distribute the disks and few people requested them (see pages xi-xii) so no more were made after the first run.&nbsp; Many collectors in 2002 did not have a computer that would run a disk.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today it is different.&nbsp; We have the French attempt to redo RIC V part 1 online with multiple examples of every coin where possible.</p><p><a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced" rel="nofollow">http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced</a></p><p><br /></p><p>We have thousands of online Roman Republican coins from the British Museum and other sources.&nbsp; We could have a book like Emmett with a disk or a site with photos but it would require someone who cares when they write a book as much as our friends in France and London do.&nbsp; A lot has happened between 2002 and 2016.&nbsp; I hope we will continue to value illustrating books beyond what is economically feasible on paper.&nbsp; The images exist (ask acsearch, Wildwinds, CNG etc.).&nbsp; People who write books tend to have photo files.&nbsp; It will happen when people who buy books demand it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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