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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4169123, member: 110350&quot;]For looking up Republican silver coins, I find Vol. I of Sear&#039;s Roman Silver Coins infinitely more useful as a practical matter than Vol. I of Sear&#039;s Roman Coins and their Values (Millennium Edition).&nbsp; The simple reason is that the Republican coins in RCV are arranged chronologically, whereas the coins in RSC are arranged in the traditional way, by moneyer.&nbsp; (RSC takes its numbering system from the old Cohen catalog.) It&#039;s awfully hard to look up an undated coin in a chronological catalog if you don&#039;t already know at least the approximate year of issue. It&#039;s a lot easier to find when the coins are arranged by moneyer, given that (except for the early anonymous issues) the moneyer&#039;s name (in some form) is on each coin.&nbsp; Plus, that&#039;s still the way most dealers index their Republican coins, as do V-coins and Ma-Shops.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nonetheless, I have both, because once you identify a coin, RCV has more, and more up to date, information.&nbsp; As others have pointed out, the values in both -- especially RSC -- are out of date.&nbsp;&nbsp; And Crawford has more information than both of them.&nbsp; By the way, there are free downloads available on the Internet of both volumes of Crawford; the only thing missing from the downloads is the plates in Volume II.&nbsp; But there are other places to find images of Republican coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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