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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1671168, member: 19463&quot;]I prefer BMC where it exists but, after that series stops, I go to RIC.&nbsp; Cohen is the easiest to use if all you want is a number minus information other than it exists.&nbsp; I only have one volume of Banti which is appropriate considering how few sestertii I own.&nbsp; That leaves the auction catalogs which really do a great job with the coins they cover.&nbsp; The only problem is finding what you want to see.&nbsp; The online versions like acsearch really help in this respect but my paper catalogs go back a couple decades farther than what has been uploaded so far. Eventually, I believe these online versions of sales catalogs will become complete enough that they will replace all those boxes of catalogs but now they just point out that there is no single reference that makes you forget all the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, if I were to imagine a book that I would most like to see, it would be an RIC/RPC/BMC type listing online or on paper with complete indexed (or clickable) high quality illustrations.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather see it done online accessible through a tablet with split screen that shows the images on one side and text on the other that stay together as you scroll through just like currently exists on Bible apps that display either two translations or a text and a Bible commentary all the time allowing you to do a&nbsp; search for keywords or just to scroll through looking for something that catches you eye.&nbsp; Numismatic eBooks like this won&#039;t exist in my lifetime or yours and certainly not while there are so few people who know both coins and computers and would be willing to pay the ridiculous cost of developing them.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are millions of people interested in Bible study materials but somewhere between dozens and hundreds who care about our old hunks of scrap metal.&nbsp; It is no wonder that the average book mentioned here is 50 to 100 years old.&nbsp; It will take at least that long to produce the next generation of ancient coin books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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