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What reading advice would you give for novice collectors?

WindycityWindycity Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭✭✭
If you were to give advice to a novice collector about books to read before they buy coins, which would you recommend? Let's assume they have an interest in US coins but haven't narrowed their focus to a particular series or type or even modern or classic. What would your list of 4-5 books include?
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  • droopyddroopyd Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭
    Red Book #1
    Me at the Springfield coin show:
    image
    60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
  • SonorandesertratSonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bowers QD/The Expert’s Guide to Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins
    Deisher B/Making the Grade: A Grading Guide to the Top 50 Most Widely Collected U.S.
    Coins
    Lange DW/History of the United States Mint and its Coinage
    Travers SA/The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual
    Vermeule C/Numismatic Art in America: Aesthetics of the United States Coinage
    Yeoman RS/A Guide Book of U.S. Coins [aka The Red Book]

    Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA

    RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'

    CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Q David Bowers - Expert's Guide to Collecting and Investing in Rare Coins - best $20 you can spend. IMHO.

    Try to get to an ANA grading seminar. They have them at some shows, or go to the Summer Seminar.

    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,711 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Red Book #1 >>


    Agree. Great overview and lots of pictures.

    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

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,069 ✭✭✭✭✭
    if you like the varieties try the cherry guide books.
  • TomBTomB Posts: 21,978 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Read the Red Book and participate in forums such as this or coin clubs.
    Thomas Bush Numismatics & Numismatic Photography

    In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson

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  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Bowers QD/The Expert’s Guide to Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins >>


    This.

    Also -

    The History of United States Coinage As Illustrated by the Garrett Collection, also by Bowers.

    Or pretty much anything else by QDB.

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