Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the U.S. by Q. David Bowers - Available Online as PCGS Referen

Stuart

Many Silver Dollar specialists either own, or want to own a copy of Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States - A Complete Encyclopedia by Q. David Bowers.

As a community service our kind hosts at PCGS and Dave Bowers have made this valuable reference available (at no usage cost) via the web link mentioned above. It's a tremendously valuable reference that you may wish to bookmark in your web browser.

Just wanted to ensure that fellow Forum members were aware of its availability online.

Thanks PCGS and Dave!!

LanceNewmanOCC

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this has been online for a while now along with several other books.

nice to see a few sites uploading these publications for the public
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sniocsu

I really enjoy this resource. Lets hope it remains open source and not another subscription...

LanceNewmanOCC

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just for those that might find the main book link useful
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Elcontador

Question - I have Revier's book re Early Dollars. Has anyone read both Revier and Bowers comments re Early Dollars, because I'd like to know how Bowers amplifies, clarifies, or adds to Revier's work

DaveG

Wouldn't you get more out of them if you read Bowers' comments for yourself instead of relying on someone else's opinion of them?

After all, it's hard to beat free.

DeliaBug

<< <i>Question - I have Revier's book re Early Dollars. Has anyone read both Revier and Bowers comments re Early Dollars, because I'd like to know how Bowers amplifies, clarifies, or adds to Revier's work >>



Short answer - die states.

Long answer - The Reiver work is an expansion of Bolender's original work and retained all of the original numbering. Images were inline now instead of on plates. (I prefer the plates over the halftones myself). The Reiver edition added a lot more details to the original work. Bowers and Borckardt also includes die state information (for each Bolender #) and has references to the original #'s. Bowers & Borckardt also include a *ton* of other info, mintage deliveries, auction records, etc. for all dollars up to and including ASE's. Reivers work is 115 pages. The early dollar section alone in the BB book is over 200 pages.