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Boosibri
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I have taken recently to expanding my book (non-numismatic) collection after rekindling the interest with a few interesting finds. Post your rare numismatic books if you have them.
500 printed prior to Gilroy passing away. Still the reference for Milled Spanish "Columnarios"
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i don't know if these are rare, but...they were not easy to get
This is one you don't see every day! I believe all the coins are from the Russian Collection!
The original is a treasure....
5,000 copies of Leroy Van Allen's 1965 (pre-VAM) Morgan dollar book were printed, a few hundred were hardbound. This is one:
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Two other books I picked up aren't really rare, but they have interesting provenances:
An edition of Seaby's English Silver Coins that was owned by the co-author:
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
And a copy of Cohen's half cent book signed by Cohen and people in attendance at the 1982 "Half Cent Happening." Formerly owned by Bob Yuell.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
I bought this some time ago and love looking back at some of the prices. Think I paid 8 bucks. The copyright is 1889.
Here is an interesting book about the Clark, Gruber and Company mint that I purchased last year. It's one of 800 copies published in 1950.
A rare volume from 1790, for which the author personally supervised its production, among his many other duties at that time:
The First Special Edition Red Book, for 95th ANA Convention in Milwaukee.
Although 500 were printed and distributed, at the time many were not saved, especially in new condition.
Also, a number of them had cracking on the spine.
There are approximately a dozen or so [known] signed by:
RS Yeoman, Chet Krause, and Ken Bressett.
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Calberto’s reference on 8 Reales titled “COMPENDIO DE LAS PIEZAS DE OCHO REALES” was numbered to 1500 and while not impossible to find is relatively expensive and difficult to find nice.
Latin American Collection
Some great old books here... There are a couple of old book shops in the village... I should roam through them on the chance that there may be a few treasures extant. Cheers, RickO
The VERY scarce ANA Luncheon Cruise overprint.
It is estimated that as few as 20 pieces were produced.
Many of which are no longer known.
Scarce enough for you?
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I recently purchased at the Stacks ANA auction (lot 69) a leather bound edition of Beistle's "A Registry of Half Dollar Varities and Sub-varities." The interesting part is that it was marked #1 and inscribed by Beistle to Col. Green thanking him for his support for the project. He was the forerunner to Al Overton and doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves for writing the first die variety treatise. This is the first book in my collection!
GoBust - you can only go downhill from here. That's a hard book to top!
Wow, I wish I had seen the lot.
Congrats on a great buy
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not many bibliophiles here.
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Anything with a tie to Col. Green would be special, IMHO.
I find this one special and attractive. Owning the reprint might be better than owning an original!
and presented to Congress on July 4th, 1790
You certainly already know this, but I'm certain the inscription to James Tilghman is by George Gale. Both men were delegates of the state of Maryland who had voted to ratify the Constitution.
Along with books I also collect brochures, booklet's, etc.
A page from the 1900 Paris Expo catalog above.
The Col. Green plates have always been something I have been interested in, particularly the half eagles. The NNP has imaged them which is massively helpful given the roughly $10,000 cost of the actual plates. Link: https://archive.org/details/colgreengoldhalfeagles1935
I can imagine the newly available NNP can either be seen to enhance the development of numismatic bibliophiles or can be seen to reduce the value of the material given the reduced demand for physical material. I believe in the former, rather than the latter.
Latin American Collection
I can't believe that there are so few numismatic book collectors out there.
Come on, come out of the 'book shelf' and show yours!
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There are different ways to collect numismatic books. I bought all California fractional gold books that I knew and that I could find. From there I could see how knowledge in this area evolving and how we ended with BG-2 book. That's a lot of fun of book collecting (and reading).
With the fun to find new CSDG varieties that weren't listed in the latest book (BG-2), that's another fun of coin collecting.