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HOLD ON to your old Redbook! Bullion Issues dropped.

Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 25, 2018 11:47AM in U.S. Coin Forum

Got a copy of the 2019 Redbook and I'm SHOCKED! Oh, there is still a price guide for old Redbooks but the entire silver and gold bullion section - that's Silver Eagles and Gold Eagles is missing five pages of mintage info for collectors! I think this is a very bad decision.

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  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have about 30 to 40 (really not sure) RedBooks going back to 1959

    Steve

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,849 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe they have all been melted by now!

    All glory is fleeting.
  • COINS MAKE CENTSCOINS MAKE CENTS Posts: 1,879 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 25, 2018 9:32AM

    I get one every year just to add to the run on the book case

    New inventory added daily at Coins Make Cents
    HAPPY COLLECTING


  • ElDoradoElDorado Posts: 8 ✭
  • goldengolden Posts: 10,154 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a complete set including a first printing of the first edition.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i get a new red book every 4 years or so so i wouldnt more then likely wouldnt have noticed.

  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,147 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have red and blue books from the 60’s.

    The bitterness of "Poor Quality" is remembered long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe two pink books = one red book?

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 said:
    who buys a new redbook every year? Second question .. why?

    I have a complete set by year, not variety.

    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 ... ?
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That was useful information for collectors.
    My 2016 will be serviceable for the near future.

    To be honest, I never went to a coin show or traveled without a Redbook but with Coin Facts I've given up the visual pleasure of glancing at a page for the convenience of having most of the data (plus auction records) at my hip.

    I always keep my Redbook handy at home.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jeff Garrett will be taking over as editor. You should ask him why the information was omitted.

    Rick Snow, Eagle Eye Rare Coins, Inc.Check out my new web site:
  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have the 2018 Redbook.. I'll stick with it for while.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @EagleEye said:
    Jeff Garrett will be taking over as editor. You should ask him why the information was omitted.

    It's my understanding that he already did a while back. I cannot wait to see the feedback from collectors in the numismatic press. :)

  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,707 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Part of the bifurcation ? Perhaps a small part.

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  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I will use the 2018 but that does open questions to what else has been excluded.

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

    I have complete sets:
    1947 [including both printings] to date, signed by Ken Bressett, from the first edition that he worked on.

    1947 to ? year, all signed by Yeoman, except for the final year, when he died early that year.

    Special editions, including all signed.

    etc. including error editions, presentation editions, what ever.

    Frank

    BHNC #203

  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here ya go:

    ASE mintages

    AGE mintages

    APE mintages

    Gold Buffalo mintages

    Modern US Commemoratives

    First Spouse Gold

    If you understand what is coming, then you can duck. If not, then you get sucker-punched. - Martin Armstrong

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 26, 2018 9:50AM

    IIRC, this was discussed on this forum back in April or May, shortly after the 2019 Redbook was released.

    IIRC, some of the ASE mintage information was transferred from the Standard RedBook to the Mega RedBook.

    It is possible the Standard RedBook is pressing up on some physical page limit.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    Here ya go:

    ASE mintages

    AGE mintages

    APE mintages

    Gold Buffalo mintages

    Modern US Commemoratives

    First Spouse Gold

    Thanks, I have all that in my old RedBook. I'm thinking about the rest of the world who never heard of Collectors Universe. :)

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    way cool insider, thank you for sharing

  • derrybderryb Posts: 37,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    @derryb said:
    Here ya go:

    ASE mintages

    AGE mintages

    APE mintages

    Gold Buffalo mintages

    Modern US Commemoratives

    First Spouse Gold

    Thanks, I have all that in my old RedBook. I'm thinking about the rest of the world who never heard of Collectors Universe. :)

    There's a lot of useful info at those sites that you won't find in your RedBook.

    If you understand what is coming, then you can duck. If not, then you get sucker-punched. - Martin Armstrong

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,864 ✭✭✭✭✭

    and even derry b for his good hind sight ( sorry about that )

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,165 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @derryb said:
    Here ya go:

    ASE mintages

    AGE mintages

    APE mintages

    Gold Buffalo mintages

    Modern US Commemoratives

    First Spouse Gold

    Wow.

    See! All that information contained in one place (post)!

    Way to go @derryb

    :)

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • ernie11ernie11 Posts: 2,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillDugan1959 said:
    IIRC, this was discussed on this forum back in April or May, shortly after the 2019 Redbook was released.

    IIRC, some of the ASE mintage information was transferred from the Standard RedBook to the Mega RedBook.

    It is possible the Standard RedBook is pressing up on some physical page limit.

    Yeah, I posted something on this back in April. It's obviously to cut down on the book size. They also removed the American Arts Gold Medallions listing.

  • WaterSportWaterSport Posts: 6,957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Redbook set collecting was very popular a few years ago, but I can not get rid of my collection now except to give it away. Limited editions I think became too common.

    WS

    Proud recipient of the coveted PCGS Forum "You Suck" Award Thursday July 19, 2007 11:33 PM and December 30th, 2011 at 8:50 PM.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have an entire shelf of Redbooks.... At home, the only one I really use anymore is the Mega...The older copies are great for historical value changes. Between coin books and firearm books I will soon need a new library... :D Cheers, RickO

  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 27, 2018 5:40AM

    My copy is prob from 2008....I use it for basic coin info like mintage figures and a general sense of rarity, not current or relevant values. As a rule, I try not to memorize anything I can look up. It gets cluttered upstairs fast enough!! So I wouldn’t want to go without a copy either.

    I would think that bullion issues would need to be in there.

    I had a few other copies but lent them out and never saw them back. No big loss.

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