What is the best Lincoln book ?

KAJ1 · October 2, 2003 3:39PM

I was looking at the " Complete Guide Lincoln Cents" /Lange .
Anyone have this ? I am interested in 1909-1958-d info.
Would like a review of each date and mintmark .

Thanks,
Kevin

jonesy · October 2, 2003 9:15PM

I too am looking for a good Lincoln Cent book. I've been thinking of getting the book by David Lange. Anyone out there have this book and a review???

STEWARTBLAYNUMIS · October 2, 2003 9:27PM

The David Lange book is great.The Sol Taylor book is also good.The Flynn/Wexler book is also good.my brain is also pretty good so ask me anything you may want to know.

Stewart

jonesy · October 2, 2003 10:48PM

Thanks Stewart !!!

MJPHELAN · October 2, 2003 11:47PM

In my Lincoln days, I found the Lange book to be great.

Mark

jonesy · October 3, 2003 12:16AM

I'm going to pick up the Lange book. The Buffalo Nickel book he has is great!!

KAJ1 · October 3, 2003 12:33AM

Stewart ,

Thanks for your reply.
I will get the Lange book.

mgoodm3 · October 3, 2003 1:28AM

I like Lange's book. It's the only Lincoln book I've got so no comparison.

mdwoods · October 3, 2003 1:41AM

I like the Lange book, but I also have no comparison. I also have his Merc dime book, and he is going to be releasing
a new book before the holidays on the history of the US mint. I can't wait for that one. I have a zillion questions about
how they did things.

seanq · October 3, 2003 1:46AM

The Flynn/Wexler book is good is you want to know about varieties, though it also has some interesting historical inforamtion on the series. The Crawford variety book just out has a greater emphasis on Memorial cent varieties. If you're not interested in the varieties, then either of the two suggestions above, Lange or Taylor, should be good.

Sean Reynolds

Coppernicus · October 3, 2003 3:23AM

Lange, IMHO

MIke

Steve · October 3, 2003 3:49AM

I have a number of Lincoln specialty books. The Lange book COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE LINCOLN CENT,(1996); The Sol Taylor book STANDARD GUIDE TO THE LINCOLN CENT -4th EDITION ,(1999); The Wexler/Flynn book AUTHORITATIVE REFERENCE ON LINCOLN CENTS, (1996) and the Shane Anderson book LINCOLN CENT ENCYCLOPEDIA, (1996).

I highly recommend all 4 books to the Lincoln cent specialist because they each have their own style and information. I would say the Lange book is the best organized and presented with each year, both circulation strikes and proofs given their own page. I own all four editions of Sol Taylor's book going back to 1982. His 4th edition is certainly the best and he does have lots of historical data on the coin as well as a year by year presentation of data. The Wexler/Flynn book is definately for every Lincoln cent variety collector. It also has data on many rare coins in the series. Flynn reported on Lincoln Matte Proofs (1909-1916) in this book and caused the Red Book to change mintage numbers on some of these coins from the traditionally accepted counts. I, for one, dispute and disagree with what Flynn says concerning the 1909VDB mintage, but that's for another thread. The Anderson book is a small 144 page paperback with listings of all regular and varieties . Some text in it also, but it is definately #4 on this list. Hope this helps. Steve

KAJ1 · October 3, 2003 1:39PM

Thanks Steve !!

I bought the Lange book.

Thanks to all !!!!!!!

commoncents · October 3, 2003 7:17PM

I think the Lange book has the greatest amount of information, but the Athoritative Reference on Lincoln Cents has lots of photo's of varieties that show you what to look for. The Cherrypickers Guide also has a good selection of Lincoln's to look for. Does anyone know where I can get the Crawford Variety book that seanq mentioned above ? I've never even heard about it until now.

kranky · October 3, 2003 9:11PM

I hadn't heard about the Crawford book either, but I see it's available from the author here. 500+ pages! The site has a few pages from the book so you can see what it's like.

KAJ1 · October 11, 2003 4:21AM

I just got my " Complete Guide Lincoln Cents" / Lange .

All I can say is this book rocks. I should have grabed this years ago.

What a wealth of information.

jdimmick · October 11, 2003 8:15AM

I liked "the complete lincoln cent encyclopedia " by Shane Anderson. I keep a copy in my Numis library

jim

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