Ron Guth's Beautiful New Book: "100 Greatest Women on Coins"
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I am so pleased to let everyone know about this new book from Whitman Publishing which Showcases the 100 Greatest Women on Coins!! This is a wonderful opportunity to not only support women in the numismatic field, but also to help promote our hobby to women, young and old! Also, I was honored to be asked to write the foreward for this book. So be sure to check it out, I think you will agree it's a fascinating and beautiful book!
Atlanta, Georgia — With the U.S. Treasury getting ready to feature a woman on the new $10 bill, the subject of women on money is more relevant today than ever before. To celebrate this, Whitman Publishing announces the release of a beautifully illustrated new coffee-table book, 100 Greatest Women on Coins. Ron Guth, one of America’s most popular authorities on money, takes the reader on a personal guided tour of coins from ancient Greece to our modern-day pocket change.
“America’s currency is a way for our nation to make a statement about who we are and what we stand for,” Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said on June 17, 2015. “The images of great American leaders and symbols they depict have long been a way for us to honor our past and express our values.” This has been true about images on coins worldwide for thousands of years.
The 100 Greatest Women on Coins include real women such as Cleopatra, Martha Washington, and Mother Teresa; goddesses such as Athena, Demeter, and Nike; allegorical women (who represent an idea or nationality) such as Miss Liberty, Mother Earth, and Britannia; and women in art, such as La Pietà and Auguste Renoir’s Girls at the Piano.
“100 Greatest Women on Coins is a celebration of the hundreds of women who have appeared on coins from ancient times to the present,” says author Ron Guth. “This is a book about mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, empresses, queens, ballerinas, athletes, goddesses, regents, allegorical figures, and the many forms in which women have appeared on coins. It’s the story of women who have made important contributions to history, politics, the arts, the sciences, and myriad other fields.”
The 100 Greatest were ranked and voted into place by members of Women in Numismatics, a national hobby organization of collectors, dealers, researchers, and historians. The coins on which the 100 Greatest Women appear include valuable gold and silver pieces, unusual commemoratives, and super-rarities, as well as more common pieces that you can find in your pocket change.
The book includes a foreword by Charmy Harker, president of Women in Numismatics and a noted coin dealer, who calls it “a fascinating look into the important role women have played throughout numismatic history and throughout history in general.”
“100 Greatest Women on Coins is not just a price guide or a fancy picture book,” says Whitman Publishing president Mary Burleson. “It’s a time machine that takes the reader to a hundred different points in world history. And it’s a fascinating and colorful introduction to the hobby of collecting coins.”
The book is coffee-table size, 128 pages, full color, with photographs and stories for every coin. It also includes market values and tips on building an impressive coin collection. Retail price is $29.95. 100 Greatest Women on Coins will be available in September 2015, online and at hobby shops and bookstores nationwide. It can be pre-ordered online, including at www.Whitman.com.
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100 Greatest Women on Coins · By Ron Guth; foreword by Charmy Harker · ISBN 0794843360 ·
Hardcover, coffee-table size (10 x 12 inches) · 128 pages · Full color · Retail $29.95 U.S. · Online at www.whitman.com/store/Inventory/Detail/100-Greatest-Women-on-Coins+0794843360.
Link to Book on Whitman's site
Atlanta, Georgia — With the U.S. Treasury getting ready to feature a woman on the new $10 bill, the subject of women on money is more relevant today than ever before. To celebrate this, Whitman Publishing announces the release of a beautifully illustrated new coffee-table book, 100 Greatest Women on Coins. Ron Guth, one of America’s most popular authorities on money, takes the reader on a personal guided tour of coins from ancient Greece to our modern-day pocket change.
“America’s currency is a way for our nation to make a statement about who we are and what we stand for,” Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said on June 17, 2015. “The images of great American leaders and symbols they depict have long been a way for us to honor our past and express our values.” This has been true about images on coins worldwide for thousands of years.
The 100 Greatest Women on Coins include real women such as Cleopatra, Martha Washington, and Mother Teresa; goddesses such as Athena, Demeter, and Nike; allegorical women (who represent an idea or nationality) such as Miss Liberty, Mother Earth, and Britannia; and women in art, such as La Pietà and Auguste Renoir’s Girls at the Piano.
“100 Greatest Women on Coins is a celebration of the hundreds of women who have appeared on coins from ancient times to the present,” says author Ron Guth. “This is a book about mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, empresses, queens, ballerinas, athletes, goddesses, regents, allegorical figures, and the many forms in which women have appeared on coins. It’s the story of women who have made important contributions to history, politics, the arts, the sciences, and myriad other fields.”
The 100 Greatest were ranked and voted into place by members of Women in Numismatics, a national hobby organization of collectors, dealers, researchers, and historians. The coins on which the 100 Greatest Women appear include valuable gold and silver pieces, unusual commemoratives, and super-rarities, as well as more common pieces that you can find in your pocket change.
The book includes a foreword by Charmy Harker, president of Women in Numismatics and a noted coin dealer, who calls it “a fascinating look into the important role women have played throughout numismatic history and throughout history in general.”
“100 Greatest Women on Coins is not just a price guide or a fancy picture book,” says Whitman Publishing president Mary Burleson. “It’s a time machine that takes the reader to a hundred different points in world history. And it’s a fascinating and colorful introduction to the hobby of collecting coins.”
The book is coffee-table size, 128 pages, full color, with photographs and stories for every coin. It also includes market values and tips on building an impressive coin collection. Retail price is $29.95. 100 Greatest Women on Coins will be available in September 2015, online and at hobby shops and bookstores nationwide. It can be pre-ordered online, including at www.Whitman.com.
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100 Greatest Women on Coins · By Ron Guth; foreword by Charmy Harker · ISBN 0794843360 ·
Hardcover, coffee-table size (10 x 12 inches) · 128 pages · Full color · Retail $29.95 U.S. · Online at www.whitman.com/store/Inventory/Detail/100-Greatest-Women-on-Coins+0794843360.
Link to Book on Whitman's site
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We are slowly inching towards the 100 Greatest "100 Greatest" books. Collect them all!
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<< <i>The 100 Greatest Women on Coins include real women such as Cleopatra, Martha Washington, and Mother Teresa; goddesses such as Athena, Demeter, and Nike; allegorical women (who represent an idea or nationality) such as Miss Liberty, Mother Earth, and Britannia; and women in art, such as La Pietà and Auguste Renoir’s Girls at the Piano. Queen Elizabeth II has appeared on billions of coins during her reign. Queen Victoria was featured on copper, silver, and gold coins throughout her 64-year rule, the longest of any British monarch. These real women are joined by mythical women like the Fairy of Mount Kumgang; monstrous women like the Medusa; caretakers like Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale; women from art and fiction, like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables; famous Americans like Dolley Madison and Marilyn Monroe; and other royals like Princess Diana and Queen Nefertiti. >>
I imagine Queen Elizabeth I would make the list, too.
The page for Catherine the Great suggests the material is expanded to include medals (not just coins).
Another great topic for a book might be Cartoon Characters. That topic would be totally
about Foreign Coins so perhaps we would need to hold off a bit. I'm sure the US Mint must
be chomping at the bit to get in on that market.
Maybe the end of some of the current series will see the start of Disney Heros from our
childhoods?
I want to add that one of my very favorite coins for "woman on coin" is "Liberty" on the French franc of the 1910's.I'm going to check my few foreign coins for another "woman on coin."
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<< <i>IThat Catherine the Great was one handsome woman. She wasn't born as Bruce the Great, was she? >>
This shows one of the basic conflicts involved with making such a book -
beautiful women vs. great women.
It's probably obvious that you can be great without being beautiful,
and even if you are great, some people (mostly men) will still complain if you are not also beautiful.
Congratulations to Ron and Charmy!
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The importance of women in numismatics can not be overstated. I will definitely buy a copy of this book for my daughter.
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but since the book often shows multiple coins for a given person/subject, I imagine they would also show the pound:
Looks like an enjoyable book.
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<< <i>This is an interesting book , however there seems to be too many foreign Coins for my taste. >>
There are 20 American women featured in the book, on 19 U.S. coins and 1 world coin.
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That said, it looks like it will be an interesting book with great images as usual. Congrats Charmy.
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