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HOLD ON to your old Redbook! Bullion Issues dropped.
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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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I have about 30 to 40 (really not sure) RedBooks going back to 1959
Steve
Yes I was surprised to see that they have cut way back on the silver and gold eagle bullion coin section.
Maybe the Red Book needs to published in two volumes like Spink British coin price guides. There is just too much "modern junk" to cover these days. And yes, there is a huge collector interest in the American Silver Eage set. It seems silly to drop the listings for the coins.
seems like they could just make the book bigger, for the most part old data stays the same, they already have the data from prior versions, so why not print it?
Maybe they have all been melted by now!
who buys a new redbook every year? Second question .. why?
I get one every year just to add to the run on the book case
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I have a complete set including a first printing of the first edition.
i get a new red book every 4 years or so so i wouldnt more then likely wouldnt have noticed.
I have red and blue books from the 60’s.
Maybe two pink books = one red book?
I have a complete set by year, not variety.
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.
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Jeff Garrett will be taking over as editor. You should ask him why the information was omitted.
I have the 2018 Redbook.. I'll stick with it for while.
It's my understanding that he already did a while back. I cannot wait to see the feedback from collectors in the numismatic press.
Part of the bifurcation ? Perhaps a small part.
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I will use the 2018 but that does open questions to what else has been excluded.
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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.
BHNC #203
Here ya go:
ASE mintages
AGE mintages
APE mintages
Gold Buffalo mintages
Modern US Commemoratives
First Spouse Gold
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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.
Thanks, I have all that in my old RedBook. I'm thinking about the rest of the world who never heard of Collectors Universe.
way cool insider, thank you for sharing
There's a lot of useful info at those sites that you won't find in your RedBook.
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat
and even derry b for his good hind sight ( sorry about that )
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
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.
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
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...
Cheers, RickO
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.