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New Large Cent Book

Ed1840Ed1840 Posts: 355
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Has anyone heard or read any more information on the new Large Cent Book by Q. David Bowers. Any news on release date, or has it been released, and I have missed it.image

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  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,521 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I Bing'd the topic and couldn't anything about it....found that he issued a book on Colonial and Early American coins that I did not know about, but nothing about a new large cent book. Hopefully someone else knows something about it.
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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,819 ✭✭✭
    Bowers's Whitman Encyclopedia of Half Cents and Large Cents will be available later this year.

    If you collect early copper, I think you'll be quite pleased!

  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Bowers's Whitman Encyclopedia of Half Cents and Large Cents will be available later this year.

    If you collect early copper, I think you'll be quite pleased! >>



    Will this be like the other recent Whitman books by QDB as part of the "Redbook" series and in paperback format (or since the book features "large" cents will it be a large(r) book? ) image
  • kazkaz Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sounds like a much-needed volume, especially if it will save me from spending 300+ for a Noyes set.
  • tychojoetychojoe Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sounds like a much-needed volume, especially if it will save me from spending 300+ for a Noyes set. >>



    AND sounds like I'd better make my large cent new purchases the sooner the better!
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  • LongacreLongacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Bowers's Whitman Encyclopedia of Half Cents and Large Cents will be available later this year. >>





    Does it depend on the currents in the Pacific Ocean? image

    Seriously, I am in a frenzy over this book, and I cannot wait for it to come out. I think I read it will be a hard cover book?
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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If the Chinese printers match the quality of the Noyes set, that will be the most significant news yet.
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  • WoodwardWoodward Posts: 41 ✭


    << <i>If the Chinese printers match the quality of the Noyes set, that will be the most significant news yet. >>



    Not a fair comparison. The Noyes books cost like $200, contain awesome color photography and are solidly bound. They are a limited edition and aimed squarely at the Sheldon variety collector. And for someone seriously doing Sheldon varieties, $200 is not a big deal. But there are only a few hundred of these collectors, maybe a thousand, serious enough to buy such a book.

    The Whitman book will probably be priced about $20 and targeted towards a general audience. Bowers will do his usual masterful job and I look forward to buying this one. I expect it to detail the most popular copper varieties, but for the hardcore types Noyes is still Noyes.

    If you want a book like Noyes for $20 and think you can produce such a thing, then you need to quit whatever you are doing and get into the book business.
  • OregonCityGoldOregonCityGold Posts: 427
    "Seriously, I am in a frenzy over this book, and I cannot wait for it to come out."

    What, not a frothy frenzy? image
  • stinkinlincolnstinkinlincoln Posts: 2,733 ✭
    This will be a great book IMO.

    Most if not all of QDB's book are just great.




    Its one of his books that got me into coins in the first place.


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  • kazkaz Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Longacre, I'm sorry to report that there will be no edition in calfskin with gold embossing and marbled endpapers.image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is the referenced (above) price of $20 real? That would be a great buy..... will look for this one. Cheers, RickO
  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The Noyes books cost like $200, contain awesome color photography and are solidly bound. >>



    Which Noyes book are you talking about? The two volume attribution guides that I own are black and white.
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  • 1798CentCollector1798CentCollector Posts: 736
    Probably the most commonly referred to Noyes attribution guides are the 1991 published books/attribution guides for the early and middle dates.

    The recently published Noyes color editions are not complete. They have only been published through year 1797. Two editions have been published 1793-1794 and 1795-1797, Each edition is around $195 and $150, respectively. These editions combine updated information from the current Noyes Census/DVD Numistudy Project and the the original attribution books, with color photos of the top examples in the census for each variety. However, the latest works don't replicate the original edditions.

    I wouldn't think that the QDB book will replace the Noyes efforts, rather supplement the published material already out there.

  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Woodward I was responding to kaz's statement that the QDB book would obviate the need for Noyes, which it won't. I will also buy the QDB book as I have almost everything numismatic he has published except for the 1st 2 Hathaway and Bowers bulletins.
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  • firstmintfirstmint Posts: 1,171 ✭
    You mean you weren't the buyer of the 1969 Hathaway & Bowers publications, (RCR #1 and 2) at nearly $3500 each last month?

    Gosh.
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  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, I was the underbidder by a mileimage

    Or I guess I came in 3rd...
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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,819 ✭✭✭
    The new Bowers book will be a hardcover encyclopedia, 8.5 x 11 inches, similar to the Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins and likely priced at the same retail.

    For an extra $5 it will come with a terrycloth bib, to protect one's smoking jacket from any frenzied frothing.



  • CoinRaritiesOnlineCoinRaritiesOnline Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭✭
    Dennis: Will it be an attribution guide too?
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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,631 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>For an extra $5 it will come with a terrycloth bib, to protect one's smoking jacket from any frenzied frothing. >>



    I want the limited edition terrycloth bib, in Mongolian cashmere, hand numbered and signed by QDB, and encased in a plastic slab image
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  • Ed1840Ed1840 Posts: 355


    << <i>Has anyone heard or read any more information on the new Large Cent Book by Q. David Bowers. Any news on release date, or has it been released, and I have missed it.image >>




    Thanks for all the info. I remember reading about it in a coin world issue, but there was no release date, and I didn't see much more about it, or more likely I missed the info. I can't wait to read it, and wear the cool bib.image
  • northcoinnorthcoin Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Has anyone heard or read any more information on the new Large Cent Book by Q. David Bowers. Any news on release date, or has it been released, and I have missed it.image >>




    Thanks for all the info. I remember reading about it in a coin world issue, but there was no release date, and I didn't see much more about it, or more likely I missed the info. I can't wait to read it, and wear the cool bib.image >>




    Anyone know the present best estimate of a release date.
  • BBNBBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Has anyone heard or read any more information on the new Large Cent Book by Q. David Bowers. Any news on release date, or has it been released, and I have missed it.image >>




    Thanks for all the info. I remember reading about it in a coin world issue, but there was no release date, and I didn't see much more about it, or more likely I missed the info. I can't wait to read it, and wear the cool bib.image >>




    Anyone know the present best estimate of a release date. >>



    bump....any news on the QDB book?

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