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MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
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What is a good read these days, Numismatic news, coin world still around, coinage?
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"The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."

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  • UncleJoeUncleJoe Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭
    Just finished McNally's Chance, an Archy McNally murder mystery ghost written for Lawrence Sanders. It was a good read.image

    As for coins, Coin World is my choice. I stay away from the magazines. They seemed geared to the truly uninitiated.

    Joe.
  • wingedlibertywingedliberty Posts: 4,805 ✭✭✭
    I am a long time subscriber to Coin World and Numismatic News. I also enjoy the Numismatist.


    Brian.
  • pmh1nicpmh1nic Posts: 3,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Coin World, The Numismatist and a biography of Benjamin Franklin.
    The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice is it possible for an empire to rise without His aid? Benjamin Franklin
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,970 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>What is a good read these days, Numismatic news, coin world still around, coinage? image >>



    These Forums.
    Instant gratification.

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Well, here's my recent stuff:

    VAM top 100
    Numismatist Magazine
    Artificial Toning Video
    Blog and Pics
  • krankykranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭
    Weekly: Coin World and Numismatic News. I just started getting NN a couple months ago, have been getting CW for years. I'm starting to like this because CW comes on Thursday, and NN on Monday, so I'm getting fresh reading material every 3-4 days. image
    Monthly: The Numismatist (sent to ANA members)
    Coin book currently being read: United States Gold Coins, an Illustrated History by Q. David Bowers. Just picked it up at last weekend's coin show.

    New collectors, please educate yourself before spending money on coins; there are people who believe that using numismatic knowledge to rip the naïve is what this hobby is all about.

  • coincollector1989coincollector1989 Posts: 856
    COINAGE
    Stacy

    Sleep well tonight for the 82nd Airborne Division is on point for the nation.
    AIRBORNE!
  • wallstreetmanwallstreetman Posts: 2,938 ✭
    The writing on the walls!
    You can fool man but you can't fool God! He knows why you do what you do!
  • IvanOnlyIvanOnly Posts: 226
    I am reading a Battletech Novel, "Patriots and Tyrants," plus 3 others that I want to get through.
    Sets Complete:
    Eisenhower Dollar, BU

    Set Incomplete:
    Roosevelt Dime
    1900 - Current Type, No Gold
    Silver Eagle
  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I will be posting my research paper on the art/culture displayed in numismatics very shortly... that will be something to read image
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  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    I read the CU coin boards! image
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  • LokiLoki Posts: 897 ✭✭
    Coin World sometimes but I am currently reading "The Coin Collector's Survival Manual" by Scott A. Travers. So far, this is by far the most informative book I have.
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    Besides scanning the Numismatist, I'm reading The Japanese Army Air Corps 1931-1945 while I wait for my copy of Carother's Fractional Money to arrive.
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • BNEBNE Posts: 772 ✭
    Edmund Morris' "Theodore Rex," Zane Gray's "Black Mesa."

    Oh, and Coin World.
    "The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."

    William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Prince, by Machiavelli..... third time... incredible insights, applicable to everything. Cheers, RickO
  • leothelyonleothelyon Posts: 8,459 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hee, hee image, I've been reading, "Still More Two-minute Mysteries" by Donald J. Sobol, usually while
    I'm on the can. You see, there's this old famous sleuth, detective Dr. Haledjain who goes around
    cracking cases of mystery crimes. It's really a cool little book. I thought I had another paperbook but it turned out to be an earler version of the same book. Time to check ebay!

    I find a great deal of great reading from the internet. Here's one I like.

    Leo

    The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!

    My Jefferson Nickel Collection

  • JLWJLW Posts: 583
    Numismatic News (weekly) and Coins (monthly). Same publisher. CoinWorld is also quite good, but I had a hard time getting through the whole thing before another one came along. (Along with the car and gun mags). I get the highlights at coinworld.comimage
    Joe
  • DoubleDimeDoubleDime Posts: 632 ✭✭✭
    I always read "Numismatic News". Just started the book "Crime of 1873", read 2 chapters so far.
  • 09sVDB09sVDB Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭
    The Crime of 1873, NN, and these forums
  • jharjhar Posts: 1,126 ✭
    Coin World, and Coin Age every once and awhile. Looking for a subscription to Coin World for Christmas!!!
    J'har
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've been reading William C. Davis' biography of Jefferson Davis. It has interesting perspectives from the other side of the Civil War, which are seldom presented in most works.

    And no, I'm not a Davis fan despite the fact that he is the only famous blood reliative that I know of in my background. I think Licoln was the greatest president of all time, and I collect Lincoln medals and tokens that were issued during his presidency.

    My grandmother was a realy fire eater though. She never gave up on the Civil War war or the Rebel cause.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • MrpawnMrpawn Posts: 595
    Truthteller's Halloween Coin story

    Jr
    eBay Auctions
  • shirohniichanshirohniichan Posts: 4,992 ✭✭✭
    The Prince, by Machiavelli..... third time... incredible insights, applicable to everything. Cheers, RickO

    I just finished re-reading that 2 weeks ago! Hmmm... how many coin collectors have read this famous work at least twice?
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    Obscurum per obscurius
  • MrKelsoMrKelso Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭
    Well i just decided and sent off for a subscription to Newmismatic News. I seem to recall that they always had some great articles years ago so i took a chance.
    I hope it is still a good paper image


    "The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD GOD Almighty."
  • CalGoldCalGold Posts: 2,608 ✭✭
    A Man Called Intrepid. The inside story of British and American espionage during WWII.

    CG
  • RoverRover Posts: 157
    Working on "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" right now...

    Dan
  • tristarztristarz Posts: 32 ✭✭
    "Grey Ghost" - Civil War biography of Col. John S. Mosby.
    Montgomery Collections
  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    Two newspapers a day
    Scientific American
    Coin World
    Numismatic News
    Ben Hur
    World Coin News
    Discover
    Coinage of the American Confederation Period (ANS Coinage of the Americas Conference 1995)
    Quo Vadis
    Playboy
    The Numismatist
    A Journey through the Monkalokain Rain Forests in search of the Spiney Fubbaduck
    The CU forums for both US and Darkside.
    The Coin World Forum
    Penny-Wise


    That's what I've been goint through the past week or so.

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