Has anyone heard if someone purchased the Celator magazine? The last I heard Kerry had stopped publication and was considering selling it. Just curious if anyone did.
I'm mainly asking because this magazine was my all time favorite. I always looked forward to reading the articles and it was a great research tool. Since it ceased publication, I have yet to see another publication that fills the void. Can anyone recommend any other ancient coin magazines? I know a few of the modern coin magazines have small sections for ancients where occasionally snippets are published, but it's obviously not the same as a publication devoted to our favorite hobby.
What do our fellow members feel about the fate of the Celator? Would anyone like to see such a magazine in the near future, be it digital or hard copy?
I don't think there is a market for such a magazine any more. There's no digital market, as with so much free information on
ancient coins, I doubt anyone would pay for it. And there's no print market either. The mass-market print market today is fulfilled by either glossy magazines such as Coin World (which runs one or two ancient articles
per issue), or by glossy society journals such as the
ANS quarterly, or the
ANA numismatist (likewise in both cases), or
Minerva (ditto). Each of these has articles rather like
the Celator used to run, except fewer of them.
Italy still has a Celator-like print magazine (Panorama Numismatica) with mid-brow articles devoted to ancients, but that's a special case with widespread interest and many people
writing articles. At the upper level, the academic journals do
fine. Much of
the Celator like content can now be found free on the web, so people are paying for glossies with wider circulation only, which really allows for just a couple of articles on ancients
per issue as that wide circulation can only be procured by also
selling many copies to collectors of modern coins. So, there'll never be a Celator or any other equivalent English language publication again in my view. The main remaining asset in
the Celator is I think it's back articles, groups of which would
merit publication in book format, or on a case by case basis abridged versions in a glossy such as Coin World, and it's distribution list details, though the latter quickly goes out of date.