Federal Half DImes, 1792 - 1837 by Logan and McCloskey

Ronyahski

Generally described as the bible for early half dime collectors, I was wondering of those that are into half dimes, is this still your go to reference? What do you like about the book??? And any parts you wish could be improved???

I wanted to pick up a copy of this book. Went online to Amazon, Ebay, etc. and cannot find a copy anywhere. Anybody have a copy they want to sell, or know where there is a copy, let me know.

BustDMs

I think I still have a copy or two on the shelf at work. PM me and I will check tomorrow morning.

It is still my go to reference. The only thing I would improve is to add larger photos.

yosclimber

It's a great book for these coins, and a great example of how to research and present a die variety study.
Pretty amazing that they determined the emission sequence, and that one of the key tools was counting edge reeds.
Their completeness was very good, too:
only 1 new die marriage (1835 LM-12) and 1 new remarriage (1830 LM 1.0) have been discovered since the book came out in 1998, and both involve dies included in the book.
I have a free Excel file which lists all the LM die varieties on my web page (though it just refers to the book for all details):
https://web.stanford.edu/~clint/q/halfdimes_LM.xls

I like their presentation format, and basically copied it for Liberty Seated Half Dime attribution guides that I have been making as free PDFs (one year at a time):
https://web.stanford.edu/~clint/hdag/index.htm

If you like the capped bust half dimes in particular, @UtahCoin made a nice website for attribution with many helpful photos:
http://www.everythinghalfdimes.com/
Example photo (on the website, the photo is about 5x larger):

Barndog

Still my go to reference

Larger, color photos would be great