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Breens Encyclopedia....How Crazy is tHIS!
ambro51
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Go to page 205. Note Breen assigned a running number to every coin. From 1 (sommer islands shilling) to 8035 , a Hawaiian coin .......Now Breen must have seen the great irony and amazing coincidence that coin number 1824 is an 1824/22 large cent -------and I'll add that I've spent the last hour with this book and will say flat out that if you are collecting or studying US Coins that book is a "must have".
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at my disposal to study.
bob
<< <i>The information in that book is mind boggling. I cannot imagine having that many coins
at my disposal to study.
bob
Breen had a photographic memory. When you combine that with the access he had to major collections, his time working for major dealers in the 1950s and doing consulting work for auction houses after that, you have huge store of knowledge.
Breen's encyclopedia has its issues, but no one else has been able to cover as much ground has he did in one volume. Yes, he did overestimate the rarity of some items, but that is part of the game. When you declare that something is rare and therefore perhaps valuable, collectors start checking their holdings to spot new examples. As that process continues the rarity issue is often settled.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
haha, that is a nice irony ambro51.
i concur with it being a must have.
it is awe-inspiring when i sit with it in front of me to attempt to get my mind wrapped around what it would take for me to even imagine attempting something like this.
for those that haven't noticed, there is much more to be amazed about in his encyclopedia aside from just coins.
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"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
<< <i>and I must add, just don't rely too heavily on it when it comes to what he states is rare..........you will be ruined. >>
Exactly. I wouldn't put a lot of faith in a lot of things that Breen has said.
True. But some of those memories dated back to his teenage years. Some he couldn't reme,ber the source and some he was unable to judge their accuracy.
Some YN's and I were looking through it and found some handwritten notes on each date of early large cents previously undiscovered.
They didn't let us keep them
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<< <i>The ANA museum still has some journal of his tucked away in their rare books room.
Some YN's and I were looking through it and found some handwritten notes on each date of early large cents previously undiscovered.
They didn't let us keep them
no iphone pics !!!!!!
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<< <i>Those journals should be off limits to YN's. >>
And why is that?
An allusion to his tendencies later in life?
@Lance, nope, just got a plain 'ol dumbphone
<< <i>From what I recall they were just the date and some varieties he had cataloged. Nothing spectacular or earthshaking. >>
suuuuure, keep the secrets all to yourself
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<< <i>Those journals should be off limits to YN's. >>
And why is that?
An allusion to his tendencies later in life? >>
Absolutely. I wouldn't let mine touch them and I'd be pretty pissed off if they happened to do so under someone else's watch. That's why.
And he wrote Greek Love in 1964, it wasn't a later in life thing for him. He was just convicted when he was older.
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<< <i>Those journals should be off limits to YN's. >>
And why is that?
An allusion to his tendencies later in life?
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"Later in life"--yeah, right.
<< <i>Wouldn't it be great if it were updated and republished with today's foremost experts contributing to this effort? >>
Not likely. 10,000 copies at $100 each would still not be enough to pay for all that effort.