Your fantasy book
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You've just walked into your neighborhood coin store and there on the shelf is a book you would pay a day's wages for.
What is the title and what information does it contain?
adrian
(I just came back from 10 days of RV'ing with my family - Dallas, Texas to Gatlinburg, Tennessee - ...did essentially no coin business, had no internet connection.....even "coin laundry" caught my eye.)
What is the title and what information does it contain?
adrian
(I just came back from 10 days of RV'ing with my family - Dallas, Texas to Gatlinburg, Tennessee - ...did essentially no coin business, had no internet connection.....even "coin laundry" caught my eye.)
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Tom
That's inhumane.
We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
Cameron Kiefer
The book however costs more than $26.00 so I don't think I could purchase it on a days pay.
dragon
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
BTW, Adrian, I hope you enjoyed Gatlinburg. It's only 40 miles from me. It's a beautiful place and this fall the Appalachians are better than in previous years.
colonies (including patterns) and accompanied by brilliantly written descriptions and historical references.
Call it: The Best Damn Coin Book Ever
<< <i>I'd easily pay a days wages for the 2010 edition of the RedBook. >>
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Now I would like to see one just like it on Three Cent Nickel Pieces (ah what the heck, toss in the silver ones too (and if you really must, the Two Cent and Twenty Cent coins)).
"The Authoritative Reference on Three Cent Nickels" by Kevin Flynn and Edward Fletcher is very good for a variety collector, but is light on date by date info of the sort the Wescott book provides.
Myriads
There are quite a few books that I would pay a days pay for.
The Half Cent die state book.
US Large cents 1793 - 1814 by Noyes
US Large cents 1816 - 1839 by Noyes
US Large cents 1840 - 1857 by Grellman
Wiley-Bugart book on seated Halves
The two volume Bowers encyclopedia on dollars once he finishes the revision.
Sound Currency Reform Club 1895 and 1896. (repacement copies for ones I have that have been damaged.)
18th Century provincial token coinage by Dalton & Hamer (replacement for copy that is falling apart)
British tokens 1811 -1820
GSAguys book on GSA dollars when it comes out.
I'm sure there are others but these are the ones off the top of my head. I've also purchased several others that I wanted recently that fit the criteria.
I gave my question some thought.
I think that I would like the book to be:
edited/written by Q. David Bowers and David Hall with photos by me and that fellow who used to do photography for Mid American (~Rare Coin Auction company)
huge
contain a very large section on investing in coins which would include a historical perspective on the investment of coins
contain a very large section with superb photos of the most gorgeous coins - not necessarily the most unobtainable or expensive coins
contain information supporting the theory that all economies based on fiat currency will crash
and containing information about the history of the US mint.
adrian
(Aside for Myriads & Conder101: I have the Wescott nickel book and also like it a lot - it was my primary reference source back when I actively collected full-steppers).
Sean Reynolds
"Keep in mind that most of what passes as numismatic information is no more than tested opinion at best, and marketing blather at worst. However, I try to choose my words carefully, since I know that you guys are always watching." - Joe O'Connor
"A Complete Reference on Lincoln Cent Die Varieites", by C. D. Daughtrey
Over 2,500 pages, lists all known markers for all known die varieties of the Lincoln cent. Not a 'best of' book or a 'new discoveries' book, this one lists them all, from the most obvious and valuable down to the most obscure and difficult to detect and identify. The first ever full and complete reference for Lincoln cent die variety collectors.
Because of the size and scope of this book (again, 2,500 pages and over 10,000 photos), the method of publication for this book is rather unique for numismatic references. It will be issued three-hole punched for binders, and will come in monthly 'packets' of pages to subscribers. Packets will contain around 100 pages each and will cost about the same thing as a magazine subscription. The duration of this subscription is expected to run three years to the completion of the book.
To help offset the difference between printing costs and the price the subscribers will pay, the back side of each page will contain advertising, which can be purchased through me. Each different die will be a single page by itself, leaving room on the back of the pages for up-to full page ads (at as low as $75 per insertion), which is far and away cheaper than any published magazine, and this is a permanent book.
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<< <i>Another 'fantasy' book that will become reality within ten years, because I am writing it.
"A Complete Reference on Lincoln Cent Die Varieites", by C. D. Daughtrey
Over 2,500 pages, lists all known markers for all known die varieties of the Lincoln cent. Not a 'best of' book or a 'new discoveries' book, this one lists them all, from the most obvious and valuable down to the most obscure and difficult to detect and identify. The first ever full and complete reference for Lincoln cent die variety collectors.
Because of the size and scope of this book (again, 2,500 pages and over 10,000 photos), the method of publication for this book is rather unique for numismatic references. It will be issued three-hole punched for binders, and will come in monthly 'packets' of pages to subscribers. Packets will contain around 100 pages each and will cost about the same thing as a magazine subscription. The duration of this subscription is expected to run three years to the completion of the book.
To help offset the difference between printing costs and the price the subscribers will pay, the back side of each page will contain advertising, which can be purchased through me. Each different die will be a single page by itself, leaving room on the back of the pages for up-to full page ads (at as low as $75 per insertion), which is far and away cheaper than any published magazine, and this is a permanent book. >>
I CAN'T WAIT ........i want it all ..........now!
Adrian, right before the chapter on how fiat money always crashes, how about a chapter on how GOVERNMENTS always crash and how there's never been one that lasted more than 500 years (or whatever the figure is). Let's get the right perspective here.......it's not about fiat currency, it's about faith in the government. One reason people lose faith in the government is because they print too much damn currency, but ultimately it's not about the currency, it's about whether folks believe in their leaders or not.
As for the coin pictures, you can put in as many as you like
Just wanted to take a sec to thank you for the work on the Nickel book. Too bad it's out of print :-(
Myriads
'The Comprehensive Photographically Illustrated Colonial Coin Condition Census' with two special bonus inserts:
1) 'The Complete Record of All Auction Results of Colonial Coins Since 1800' and
2) 'The Comprehensive Record of All Private Colonial Coin Transactions Ever, even the Ones that were Totally Secret'
If only the camera had been invented in an earlier century.
I would like to see a book with lots of photos of our first Mint in its operation.
With plenty of color shots of overflowing kegs of newly pressed large cents and silver dollars on every page.
An original copy of the first mint director's report for the first year of the mint's operation.
I have been quietly buying up many colonial coins (some of which i have listed). They are way, way, way too cheap. Remember when other early American coins like bust dollars were way too cheap?
A totally fascinating era and one which much has been written about and just as importantly, much which could still be written. A wide open field and totally American.
Another book would be The Exhaustive Encyclopedia of Chopmarks and Chopmarked Coins. It would include photos of all chops, their provenance, rarity, deciphering of difficult to read Chinese characters, background info on the banks and merchants that used chops, etc. I imagine it would be over 1,000 pages.
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I was in Mainz, Germany, and saw a Gutenberg bible:
I would buy "The Comprehensive U.S. Silver Dollar Encyclopedia" by John Highfill.
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Not quite that caliber, but another book I'd pay a days wages for is owned by a fellow dealer....it is Abe Kosoff's personal copy of Judd's pattern book. Kosoff made numerous notes in it, some regarding coins he bought and sold, others about mistakes he found in it. Really cool.
I just purchased A Bebee's personal copy of the ANA sale inwhich he bought the 1913 Liberty nickel. Don't know what I'll do with it yet, but I'm leaning towards loaning it to the ANA to exhibit with the nickel.
But neither of these is anywhere as cool as your answer.
njcoincrank