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Are there any numismatic books that you want but cannot find?

MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
I just found a relatively new book after two months of searching. Has anyone else been similarly frustrated? Maybe we can help each other find some elusive books.


Edited for the curious: I found my book here.
Andy Lustig

Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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  • I want every old auction catalog with photographic plates.

    Not every one of them but just one of each one.

    That would be cool.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I want every old auction catalog with photographic plates.

    The first fifty thousand should be easy. It's the last thousand that will be difficult.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
  • The latest edition of the CherryPicker's Guide!!!! image
    "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on; I don't do these things to other people, I require the same from them."
  • coinlieutenantcoinlieutenant Posts: 9,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes,

    The second volume of Jean Mazard's book of French coinage...and a translator...
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm looking for Jules Reiver's Variety Identification Manual for Reeded Edge Half Dollars 1836-1839. I realize that this might not the correct title, I just can't think of it at the moment. Can anyone help?
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • Yes, the thing is I already own it. I just can't find it. image

    All of the Reivers VIM books are worth having and hard to find.
  • PreTurbPreTurb Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭
    An original John Haseltine Type Table (auction catalog)...
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,081 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There is one Davenport book I am looking for.

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm looking for the Ike book by Wexler & Flynn. Everyone seems to be out.

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

    My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!

  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    My own copy of the 1983 Loye Lauder auction catalog.

    Do you have any idea how hard that is to find? Do you? Well, it is very, very hard.

    The good news is that I was able to borrow one from a dealer/friend, scan the images I needed and return it to him while never having spilled a large dark-colored drink on it during the entire time it was in my care. I do not have to tell you that that is a meaningful numismatic achievement. I did however accidentally rip the cover off while attempting to put it into a mailing envelope.
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,636 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have everything I need but there are still several I'm looking for cheap. Breen's
    encyclopedia and some of the older Jefferson books are on the list. And I'd like a
    hardcover Kennedy book.

    I searched for Targonsky's telephone token book about forever before suddenly
    finding myself with three of them.

    With the moderns it's best to buy them as soon as they come out because they
    might not be available later or you'll have to wait for a second printing.
    Tempus fugit.
  • MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,252 ✭✭✭✭✭
    CoinLieutenant - You'll find Mazard II here.
    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.

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