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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4173718, member: 74282&quot;]Numismatic publishers rarely do this. Numismatic books aren&#039;t huge moneymakers, which is why so many books are out of print and command such high secondary prices. They aren&#039;t in demand enough even for a large print run. Thankfully Crawford is in-demand enough that the publisher saw fit to release a fairly inexpensive paperback reprint.</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer op&#039;s original question though, in my opinion given how cheap Crawford is, Sear is not something I&#039;d recommend for anyone who actually plans to collect Republican coins. When it cost $500 for a copy of Crawford I think it made more sense to recommend new collectors buy Sear&#039;s RCV &amp; RSC, but realistically there&#039;s very little in Sear that you can&#039;t find from looking at Numismatica Ars Classica sales 61 and 63 for free online, whereas there is a lot of information in Crawford you won&#039;t find in Sear nor will you find anywhere online.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are newer sources for many areas too, and some of them are online, but Crawford is the starting point for studying and understanding Roman Republic coins and I doubt any seasoned collector of them would disagree with that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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