Four libraries, two at ANACS, two at home. Easily 10,000 books, catalogs and volumes. Only ANA
has more in Colorado. Will be forced to be a book dealer after ANACS retirement. J.P.
62 yrs in Coins, 42 yrs Certifying/Grading, CoinWorld's Most Influential People In Numismatics, 1960-2020. 30 consecutive yrs teaching ANA Summer seminar, Numismatic Ambassador award, 1998 Doctorate in Numismatics, Glenn Smedley Award, ANA Governor 2009/2011, Author/ Host of ANA's best selling video's, courses on grading & counterfeit detection. Taught over 1,100 paying students, Secret service agents, San Diego to Boston, Anchorage to Miami, including 2 coin cruise lecturer. many Free presentations. NLG book and video awards. ANA photographer, SEM operator, ASA Appraiser, Contributor to Redbook, Numismatist, Coin World, Numismatic News, ANA Grading Guides, 40,000 Volume Library, Founder ANAAB, ICG, 1995 ANA collector services appraisal/conservation, First full service Ancient coin grading service. Navy 75-77, WIU 77-81, Dealer1981-1984, ANA 1984-1998, 60 year Collector U.S./ 50 Year Ancient coins. ANA Advisory Committee. Life member ANA, ANS. Semi-retired grader in Denver area
Enough that I mention the library in my printed instructions to the Executor of my estate with the names of some people he should contact about selling it.
Professional Numismatist, Retired. 55 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner of the PNG's 2026 Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
Being new several red books and American silver eagles (awesome) hardcover I have added collecting coin books to expand my hobby and hope the return of yard sales and such provides opportunities
@markelman1125 said:
I have a few red books but lately pcgs coinfacts has replaced my need for books. I now rather spend the $ on a new coin than a book. Rather hold the history than read about it.
When I buy a new coin, something I haven't had before, I usually go and find the relevant books for that said coin. It makes those coins come to life when you read about them and have them there with you
@CaptHenway said:
Enough that I mention the library in my printed instructions to the Executor of my estate with the names of some people he should contact about selling it.
I am not going to leave this issue to my heirs. We are thinking seriously about moving out of AZ, and this has forced me to seriously look at the size of my library (numismatic and otherwise). I have a lot of books in storage, and not even opened in the last 5 or 10 years. Time to clean house and storage bays.
Member: EAC, NBS, C4, CWTS, ANA
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
Over 100. That's not counting auction catalogs, periodicals, e-books, and so forth. Tho I suppose it is books and booklets. I stopped counting at 101; there's at least a few dozen more.
Don't have an exact count but I have five that I will just page through from time to time, just for fun and not to specifically look something up.
Unfortunately two of them got heavy water damage in 2015, and I haven't looked through them since...even though they are still easily accessible and I could get them out in a matter of 5 minutes, the memories are painful.
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How many coin books have you read? I have a couple on the shelf I've never looked at. Possibly they shouldn't count.
I guess I have more than I realized, especially if I count auction catalogs, too.
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True. Man caves are rarely so airy and light...
Oh man, if we're counting auction catalogs, I'm easily over 100.
Yeah, the number of literature items is far higher, but the 11-20 answer fits my concepts of "book" better
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Four libraries, two at ANACS, two at home. Easily 10,000 books, catalogs and volumes. Only ANA
has more in Colorado. Will be forced to be a book dealer after ANACS retirement. J.P.
62 yrs in Coins, 42 yrs Certifying/Grading, CoinWorld's Most Influential People In Numismatics, 1960-2020. 30 consecutive yrs teaching ANA Summer seminar, Numismatic Ambassador award, 1998 Doctorate in Numismatics, Glenn Smedley Award, ANA Governor 2009/2011, Author/ Host of ANA's best selling video's, courses on grading & counterfeit detection. Taught over 1,100 paying students, Secret service agents, San Diego to Boston, Anchorage to Miami, including 2 coin cruise lecturer. many Free presentations. NLG book and video awards. ANA photographer, SEM operator, ASA Appraiser, Contributor to Redbook, Numismatist, Coin World, Numismatic News, ANA Grading Guides, 40,000 Volume Library, Founder ANAAB, ICG, 1995 ANA collector services appraisal/conservation, First full service Ancient coin grading service. Navy 75-77, WIU 77-81, Dealer1981-1984, ANA 1984-1998, 60 year Collector U.S./ 50 Year Ancient coins. ANA Advisory Committee. Life member ANA, ANS. Semi-retired grader in Denver area
A couple bookshelves of mine.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
Enough that I mention the library in my printed instructions to the Executor of my estate with the names of some people he should contact about selling it.
Being new several red books and American silver eagles (awesome) hardcover I have added collecting coin books to expand my hobby and hope the return of yard sales and such provides opportunities
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
I even have a couple on my Kindle device. They take up a lot less room than the hard copies do.
Yea that’s a nice way to think about it 👍.
I am not going to leave this issue to my heirs. We are thinking seriously about moving out of AZ, and this has forced me to seriously look at the size of my library (numismatic and otherwise). I have a lot of books in storage, and not even opened in the last 5 or 10 years. Time to clean house and storage bays.
RMR: 'Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?'
CJ: 'No one!' [Ain't no angels in the coin biz]
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Wow now that's a man cave. Very nice. But my wife would make me keep it so neat.
Jim
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Over 100. That's not counting auction catalogs, periodicals, e-books, and so forth. Tho I suppose it is books and booklets. I stopped counting at 101; there's at least a few dozen more.
Ed. S.
(EJS)
Don't have an exact count but I have five that I will just page through from time to time, just for fun and not to specifically look something up.
Unfortunately two of them got heavy water damage in 2015, and I haven't looked through them since...even though they are still easily accessible and I could get them out in a matter of 5 minutes, the memories are painful.
About 34 feet.
Here is my current numismatic library:
ANA-LM, CWTS-LM, NBS, TAMS, ANS
Never know when you may need them.
Now I know what to do with my son's old bedroom!
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Just the Red Book portion is almost 100.
Interesting poll. I actually had to go count mine as I had no idea. I come in currently at 37. I was surprised that I had that many.
Definitely some very impressive collections posted here!
On the Red Books, we agree.
Full set?
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