Thank you Kevin - glad you liked them!
I do tend to scan at higher resolutions, usually 600-1200 dpi plates and 300dpi for text. As result a whole scanned
catalog can be very fat. I'm looking at setting up a cdn-like solution (like Amazon cloudfront) that would ease any strain on my rnumis storage and bandwidth. The Sternberg PDFs run from 50MB to 350MB each, so that adds up (I have 19 digitized and
still have a few more to do). What I currently do is share digitized catalogs with other interested folks on request using WeTransfer. They just check what scans I have using my rnumis auction-house pages (eg
https://www.rnumis.com/house_auctions.php?house=STERN) and tell me what they need. That seems to
work well and I'm happy to do that for now but I'm
still thinking about what's the best long term solution.
Regarding the
elephant...unfortunately I don't have a
Vlasto in front of me so was just going off
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/calabria/taras/i.html. From the
auctions they cite (
Peus and Sincona), 732 is the
elephant without DI and 735 for
elephant+DI (and
horse+rider+standing figure). Different from the 736-738 you suggested.
Meepzorp's
elephant is also listed as
Vlasto 736.
Wildwinds 736 is completely different. I need to see
Vlasto as it's not clear to me.
I agree Hartwig 121 and
Bement 100 are almost certainly the same coin. Probably, what look like real differences are really just a result of different casting processes/quality at Santamaria and Naville. Also a 6.25g
weight for Hartwig would make much more sense, but even that's 0.04g off from Naville...more than I usually see so I wonder if the whole Hartwig 7.29g is just wrong. I guess it doesn't matter so much if it really is the same coin, as seem likely.
Thanks again
Steve