Books on Commemoratives?

smprfi · January 23, 2003 12:43PM

What's a good book for comm. coins.Something like the cherry pickers guide?

EVillageProwler · January 23, 2003 12:48PM

A few years ago, I got a freebie from Harry Laibstain that I thought was pretty good. It was spiral bound, and had all sorts of pricing info including recommendations on what to buy and at which grade levels.

I don't remember the name...

EVP

smprfi · January 23, 2003 12:50PM

Sure,tease me.

fivecents · January 23, 2003 12:56PM

That book is"Investing,Collecting & Trading in Certified Commeoratives" By: Harry Laibstain. The prices are dated, but the information is great. It covers each commem. by date.

Paul

TomB · January 23, 2003 12:56PM

If it helps at all, smprfi, I didn't care for the book given away by Harry Laibstain. To me it seemed it was too predictable; nearly every commem was recommended in MS66 for the collector and MS67 for the investor or something like that. As far as a Cherrypicker's type of book I am not really familiar with one out there. However, there are several excellent books about the history of commems available.

Clankeye · January 23, 2003 1:01PM

I can recommend Bower's Commemorative Coins of the United States-- A Complete Encyclopedia. I do not like the old Swiatek/Breen book, Silver & Gold Commemorative Coins.

The Bowers book has more history than either the Swiatek/Breen or Laibstain book.

Clankeye

RegistryCoin · January 23, 2003 1:43PM

...and for a little more history look at US Commemorative Coinage by Arlie R. Slabaugh. It contains many interesting comments about each issue.

smprfi · January 24, 2003 1:59PM

Thanks.I'll look into these.

Books on Commemoratives?

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