The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 39, September 28, 2003, Article 6

FIELDING LIBRARY QUERIES

    Regarding the query about the Calico-Trigo catalog,
   Granvyl Hulse, Numismatics International librarian writes:
   "The Numismatic Library may be an exception to the rule,
   but we have found over the past number of years that we
   are getting more queries for information or help than we are
   getting requests for books.   I cannot recall who made the
   statement "Buy the book before you buy the coin," but it
   seems that this is becoming more and more true as good
   reference books are coming on the market.

   We had this query from a library who had the book in
   question and were using it as a reference for non-numismatic
   research. Their knowledge of Spanish was limited, and they
   had heard that it had been translated into English and asked
   our help in finding the latter version. We had not heard of it,
   so we asked the ANA and ANS Librarians if they had.
   Negative there, so went to the font of all numismatic book
   information, the E-Sylum subscribers.

   Assuming that they had heard wrong, is there an equivalent
   publication of the Calico-Trigo catalogue in English that could
   be used in its place?   The NI Library has an excellent
   collection of works on the coinage of Spain, but like most of
   our other references are in the language of the country
   concerned."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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