Does anyone have the book, "Numismatic Art in America: Aesthetics and the U.S. Coinage"

Longacre

Does anyone have the book, Numismatic Art in America: Aesthetics and the U.S. Coinage, by Cornelius Vermeule? If so, what is it like and is it worth getting? Or is it an "artsy" book without a lot of substance? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Pistareen

It's worth having in your library, but it's not something you will be referring to every other week. It basically puts designs in the context of art at the time and speaks at some length about the coin's artist and design process.

Nifty, not essential, but still cited pretty often.

Hoot

It's one of my favorite numismatic texts to read. A great deal of comparison of U.S. numismatic art with that which came before it, as well as to the historical contemporaries. Vermeule had a great sense of humor for an academic (and I suppose he still does).

Hoot

Coinosaurus

It's on my want list but not a must have. I keep putting in lower bids for a copy (it shows up fairly regularly in the numismatic book auctions) and haven't yet been succesful.

RYK

It is on Doug Winter's list of Ten Best United States Coin Books. That is usually enough to get me to buy the book.

Longacre

I only own 4 of the 10.

But I've read the books that I own (except the Breen Encyclopedia from cover to cover).

TomB

It is my single favorite numismatic book of all time! If you do a search of this topic here or at NGC you will notice that I always tell people that they should buy this book. It is, in my opinion, a masterwork.

Conder101

Wow I own 8 of the ten! But I don't think I would have much use for number 10 since I don't like gold and don't do anything at all with it. Winter specializes in gold so naturally it would be on his list.

I guess I need to pick up the Aesthetics book.