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Hardcover MEGA RED?

DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
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If you had the chance to buy a hardcover version of the
Guide Book of United States Coins, Deluxe Edition,
would you?

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  • djmdjm Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe as a collectors addition with guilded page edges, Gold Leaf lettering on a leather cover.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Probably not, unless it was a few years in the future and I wanted an update.....Cheers, RickO
  • BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Howz about an online version of Mega Red available by subscription?
    Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
    a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
  • VanHalenVanHalen Posts: 4,330 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I do not have a Mega yet and do plan to obtain a softbound copy.
  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only if you could tell me how to keep the massive volume
    open on a desk - unless each hardcover version comes with
    it's own brick!
    Retired Collector & Dealer in Major Mint Error Coins & Currency since the 1960's.Co-Author of Whitman's "100 Greatest U.S. Mint Error Coins", and the Error Coin Encyclopedia, Vols., III & IV. Retired Authenticator for Major Mint Errors for PCGS. A 50+ Year PNG Member.A full-time numismatist since 1972, retired in 2022.
  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    LOL. Woodworking clamps and super-glue!


  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You promised me a hard cover!


    Still waiting!

    image


    [Actually not true, I asked, but got no promises.]
    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • BochimanBochiman Posts: 25,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the concept of what it has, but I, for one, am not out to impress anyone looking at my "library" on my bookshelf. So, from a functionality standpoint, I have passed on this purchase so far.
    I want it. But, as I look at how I would use it, it isn't as functional as the ringed softcover version.
    Also, the price.....double+

    I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    just what we need is something heavier to bother the blown disc in our backs or blow out the other knee cap. wtfo
  • DeliaBugDeliaBug Posts: 881 ✭
    If it is a single ~1500 page volume that is perfect-bound, no.

    If it is split into two manageable volumes of ~750 pages each (750pp is the size of Breen's Encylopedia), and it is not perfect-bound, yes.

  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I vote for the spiral bounding as well. That's easiest for desktop purposes.
    Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org
  • baddogssbaddogss Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I own the paperback already.

    A split volume hardcover or spiral bound hardcover would be very nice ... and I'd buy one.
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  • BUFFNIXXBUFFNIXX Posts: 2,727 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hard bound version would make a great door stop.
    Collector of Buffalo Nickels and other 20th century United States Coinage
    a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
  • csdotcsdot Posts: 707 ✭✭✭✭
    Does anyone else feel like they started out strong with all the details about the half cents, large cents and other copper, then realized they had to fit the remaining U.S. coin types into the book? Take a look at the color coded markers on the side of the book and you'll see what I mean. Still, it's an extremely interesting and well put together book.

    Indian Head $10 Gold Date Set Album

  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    LOL! No, our plan from the start was to have a major expanded feature (of one or more denominations)
    in each edition. If we super-expanded EVERY coin type in a single book, it would be 15,400 pages
    instead of 1,504!


  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>LOL! No, our plan from the start was to have a major expanded feature (of one or more denominations)
    in each edition. If we super-expanded EVERY coin type in a single book, it would be 15,400 pages
    instead of 1,504! >>




    15,400!

    THAT would be a major edition.

    Would it come with a hand truck?
    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭
    Somewhere I have a photo from the Whitman archives, from the 1960s,
    showing a big tractor-trailer full of Red Books on their way to a distributor.
    Very impressive!


  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,615 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For the library maybe one. Bookmarks are cheap.

    ``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5

  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭


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  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the Mega Red has finally outdone the Breen's Encyclopedia. Time to retire Breen to numismatic history.
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