Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see the hacker and piracy crowd being interested in distributing numismatic literature.
You'd be surprised what pops if you do a search
Please do not download these. Buy them, and once you've bought, feel free to keep a second copy on your computer. There are only two publishers in the world of "ancient
numismatic books" rather than short papers intended to bolster academic careers but of no general use to coin collectors. They are
Spink and
CNG. I know for sure that for one of these companies it is an unprofitable enterprise, supported as a goodwill gesture related to their
coin shop, and for the other it only makes sense due to a
good back
catalogue of best-sellers which subsidise the real academic texts. Every download pushes one or both to the edge of not publishing at all. With no reference handbooks there will be no coin collecting.
Because
Octopus Grabus' no doubt well-meaning post links to stolen numismatic goods (i.e. downloads of in-print books). I've taken the
liberty to delete the links he provided. I
hope the moderators will excuse me. The full text of
his post, except for the link is reproduced unaltered above, so there is no loss of content.
rest assured that I'd never, nor have I ever, download anything from a torrent site.
I understand and applaud.
Still, others may not have these high standards so please forgive me for deleting the links to a torrent site which you posted.
As for Danny's comment,
Spink have noticed that the sellers of pirated copies of their books generally run multiple 1-day sales which they start always on a Friday evening (after
Spink cob for the weekend). One of their employees has taken to checking internet sources Saturday morning's and Sunday morning's to try and capture such sales and report to
ebay. It may seem like a small problem, but it will become a big problem if numismatic publishers disappear.