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This thread is dedicated to documenting portals for free ebooks relating to collecting US coinage. Included are where they were downloaded and any special requirements to acquire them. I would like this thread to be a resource for those looking for historical books on the history of American coinage, please feel free to add to this list.

Google Play - you will need a gmail account to access
format is google play viewer of scanned books

Examples
--Illustrated History of the United States Mint: With a Complete Description of American Coinage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. The Process of Melting, Refining, Assaying, and Coining Gold and Silver Fully Described
George Greenlief Evans
--History of American coinage - David Kemper Watson
--Catalogue of coins, tokens, and medals in the numismatic collection of the Mint of the United States at Philadelphia, Pa United States. Bureau of the Mint - Thomas Louis Comparette
--An historical account of American coinage - John Howard Hickcox
--The Early Coins of America and the Laws Governing Their Issue: Comprising Also Descriptions of the Washington Pieces, the Anglo-American Tokens, Many Pieces of Unknown Origin of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and the First Patterns of the United States Mint - Sylvester Sage Crosby
--"Liberty." The image and superscription on every coin issued by the United States of America: Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof - Julius Rubens Ames
--The American numismatical manual of the currency or money of the aborigines, and colonial, state, and United States coins: With historical and descriptive notices of each coin or series - Montroville Wilson Dickeson
--The Vermont coinage - Edmund Farwell Slafter
--Varieties of United States cents of the year 1794 - Édouard Frossard, W. W. Hays, Thomas Lindsey Elder
--The varieties of the United States cents of 1796 - Edward Holmes Gilbert, Thomas Lindsay Elder

Archive.org - no special requirements for downloading
formats in cluding .pdf, kindel, or web based viewing

Examples
--The Missing Dates in U.S. Coins,by John H. MacMillan, published in the July 2006 issue of the "Double Shift", the monthly publication of the Houston Coin Club.
--American journal of numismatics Vol 1-53
--The early coins of America; (1875) - Sylvester S. Crosby
--A history of the silver and minor coins of the United States / by Robert H. Yeatman. (March 27, 1943)
--Domestic and foreign coins manufactured by mints of the United States 1793-1970 - U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Treasury Library
--Petersons' complete coin book : containing perfect fac-simile impressions of all the various gold, silver, and other metallic coins throughout the world, with the United States mint value of each coin under it.. (1859)


Please feel free to add to this list any portal/website you feel may be benificial to those on these forums.

As always quesitons and comments are welcome.

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