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• The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 45, November 7, 2004, Article 15
  

  WHY COLLECT NUMISMATIC LITERATURE?
  

  Steve D'Ippolito writes: "I second Dick Johnson--the main
  reason to collect numismatic literature is in essence the
  content of the literature. I have in my possession a CD-ROM
  of the Corpus of the Grand Duke Georgii Mikhailovich. An
  original copy of this multi-volume work, which came out
  over a period of decades just before the 1917 revolution,
  will set you back at least $10K. The subsequent French
  reprint is still well into four figures; the abbreviated French
  reprint (without the invaluable reference material--hundreds
  of pages for each reign of Emperor or Empress) set me back
  $200 when I bought it--years before the CD-ROM came out.
  I now have access to all that reference material in JPEG format
  and I now doubt I would buy the original even if I had the
  money. Without the CD ROM, I don't think I could make that
  statement. (I have been known to drop $500 on a single book
  when I had to, more in line with my budget, and establishing the
  principle that I will pay big bucks (by my standards) for the
  information if I have to.) Now if only I were fluent enough in
  Russian to read the reference material...."
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v07n45a15.html

Date publiée

• 2004-11-07

Volume

• 7

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