From QDB's Lincoln Cent book-- was Rick Tomaska's Proof Coin book truly a ground breaking study?
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I am reading QDB's book on Lincoln cents and it is great. In it, he refers a few times to Rick Tomaska's book about proof and cameo proof coins. Specifically, he writes,
"As the years rolled on from 1950 to 1964, cameo contrast proofs were made with increasing frequency, but still in the minority, and those with today's highly prized deep cameo contrast were made in even fewer numbers. Scant notice was taken of such differences back then, until the 1980s-- and especially after the 1991 publication of Rick Tomaska's "Cameo and Brilliant Proof Coinage of the 1950 to 1970 Era", a little book that had a big effect on the coin market."
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For those in the know:
(1) How ground breaking was Tomaska's book?
(2) How much did the markets move as a result?
(3) Was Tomasaka's book a reaction to the market, or did it drive the interest in cameo proof coins?
"As the years rolled on from 1950 to 1964, cameo contrast proofs were made with increasing frequency, but still in the minority, and those with today's highly prized deep cameo contrast were made in even fewer numbers. Scant notice was taken of such differences back then, until the 1980s-- and especially after the 1991 publication of Rick Tomaska's "Cameo and Brilliant Proof Coinage of the 1950 to 1970 Era", a little book that had a big effect on the coin market."
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For those in the know:
(1) How ground breaking was Tomaska's book?
(2) How much did the markets move as a result?
(3) Was Tomasaka's book a reaction to the market, or did it drive the interest in cameo proof coins?
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Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
on modern DCAM coinage. What he did though was
to expand on the manufacture, rarity scale, and peculiarities
for each year as well as the 1965, 1966 and 1967 specimen coins.
What is ground breaking about the book are the pages of superb pictures,
of what top of the line Cameos and DCAM should look like. It is not an
overstatement to make the claim that Rick expanded modern DCAM coins
into a major collecting series. Ricks original book, stands as the seminal book
of the DCAM modern coinage . It is as valuable and helpful today as when it was first
published.
Camelot
And while we're at it, here are two plate coins of mine that were used for Rick's book, the 1950 is plate # 3 and the 1959 is plate # 46.
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