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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2762444, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Provincial-Coins-Introduction-Imperials/product-reviews/1852640103/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Provincial-Coins-Introduction-Imperials/product-reviews/1852640103/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Provincial-Coins-Introduction-Imperials/product-reviews/1852640103/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is another Butcher book worth noting either for its value or lack thereof depending on how you look at the matter.&nbsp; In 1988, he released</p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Provincial-Coins-Introduction-Imperials/dp/1852640103/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Provincial-Coins-Introduction-Imperials/dp/1852640103/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow">Roman Provincial Coins: An Introduction to the Greek Imperials</a></b></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">which has only one review on Amazon (link above)&nbsp; which says it is a good introduction but once you know a little bit, the book is useless.&nbsp; That, folks, is pretty much the story of any book.&nbsp; Once you know it all, you don&#039;t need it anymore.&nbsp; It reads a bit like a college term paper by an A student fitted out with a lot of illustrations. </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">I suspect the reviewer was wanting a catalog &quot;All you want to know about&quot; style book which he did not get in this little 136 page volume.&nbsp; In that size a book we get an introduction, not a compendium. The book has a lot of excellent line drawings and decent photos of coins not at all selected to be the ones you are likely to see in commerce but very interesting none the less.&nbsp; If you are familiar with over half of the coins shown on the eight plates, you are way too advanced to be reading what I post on Coin Talk.&nbsp; It has, however, a lot of information that a collector would be well advised to learn so the book could become a fond memory rather than a daily reference.&nbsp; Those who already know it all will not want to read it.&nbsp; I wish my level of Provincial uselessness were equal to this book.&nbsp; </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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