Anyone have American Coin Treasures & Hoards by QDB?

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• Sonorandesertrat Posts: 5,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 5:43AM

  I have a copy---it's a great read (as are many of QDB's books). A good addition to any coin collector's library.

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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 5:49AM

  Yes, I own it. It is an excellent book and reference. It comes from what I consider to be the golden era of QDB books, all of which are excellent. If you are interested specifically in shipwrecks, it is outdated and does not include some of the more recent salvage finds (though there is plenty of information on these elsewhere).
  
  I would rank it in the top 10 of QDB books, but not in my personal top 5.

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• Mark Posts: 3,583 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 6:07AM

  RYK:
  
  In your response, you seem to be channeling your inner Longacre...

  Mark
  
  
  

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• DDR Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 6:40AM

  Great book, I really enjoyed reading it when it first came out. It's been long enough now, I may re-read it.

  David
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  Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"

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• BillJones Posts: 34,841 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 7:35AM

  I have a copy, and it is a very good book. The last I knew it had gotten kind of pricey although I've not seen it offered for a while.

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• valente151 Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 7:41AM

  I have it in my library back in Maine. (It didn't make the ten book cut that I brought to school with me.) it's a fun read, I want to say I only paid about 35 bucks for a like new copy at the ANA Summer Seminar book sale a year or two ago.

  My Retired Toned Proof Mercury Dime Set

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• Longacre Posts: 16,717 ✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 7:56AM

  
  
  << <i>RYK:
  
  In your response, you seem to be channeling your inner Longacre... >>
  
  
  
  
  
  An excessively good response by RYK. Longacre agrees with what he wrote.
  
  For light reading, I enjoy QDB's Numismatic Companion series. For heavier reading, you cannot get better than the History of US Coinage.

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• CaptHenway Posts: 32,775 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 4, 2013 7:58AM

  I read the original manuscript in galley form, and then contributed a small chapter of my own. Very interesting read.

  Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.

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• scoobydeux Posts: 498 ✭✭

  October 4, 2013 8:02AM

  Thanks everyone!
  
  I very much appreciate all of your input.
  
  

  "Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."

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