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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2304473, member: 44316"]Hoover is remarkably complete and I expect it will replace BMC for having citations to almost everything, especially when all the volumes are out (Let's hope the project does not stop before completion, as so many numismatic projects do). The one thing a bit frustrating about them is they give rarity/frequency but do not give prices like Sear does. Instead, the give you a link to a website which can be populated with actual prices for actual examples. Last time I looked, the vast majority of issues had no prices entered yet. So, the Greek AE type may be "R2" but you cannot see someone's guess as to retail "value". A gold stater of Alexander can be "S" while a tetradrachm "R2". Nevertheless, the stater is worth far more. You can't determine values from its information until the awkward website is populated, and even then I'd probably use acsearch instead. The volume I use most is "Volume 10, Handbook of Coins of the Southern Levant" (Phoenicia, Souther Koile Syria, including Judaea, and Arabia) and I really like it. It does have substantial discussions about each town and ruler, often a page or more--enough to be satisfying. It is loaded with very good photos (far better than BMC photos, and far more of them). Of 744 types almost all are photographed.[/QUOTE]