I purchased the STANDARD CATALOGUE OF UNITED STATES COINS 1946

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• mdwoods Posts: 5,559 ✭✭✭

  December 7, 2009 9:57AM

  That's a pretty neat book. What does it have to say about Franklins?

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• darktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭

  December 7, 2009 10:49AM

  Neat find and great buy! I too am curious of the value.

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  December 7, 2009 11:03AM

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• oreville Posts: 12,160 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2009 11:06AM

  Realone:
  
  Actually, that is good. I didn't think it was valuable or anything and wanted an older (well, older to me that is. LOL) book to do pricing research with.
  
  I am all using a 1947 Red Book reprint as well.

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• rainbowroosie Posts: 4,875 ✭✭✭✭

  December 7, 2009 11:07AM

  The 1947 Red Book reprint is AWESOME!!! You have to check out what you"could" have had!!

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2009 7:48AM

  I've been trying to put a set of Standard Catalogs together. Most can be obtained for a couple of bucks, but a few seem to be quite scarce-the second and third editions, a couple frpm the WWII era, and the last one from 1957 are examples.

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• shorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2009 8:44AM

  1946 is reasonably common. 1957 is the best (and last) edited by John Ford with input (I think) from Breen. Some years are scarcer than others. A nice copy with good gilt is worth about $25. Putting a full set together is tougher than people think, the print runs were generally smaller than Red Book, because it cost more when issued. Some years had dust-jackets...find a set of those if you think they're common.

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• shorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2009 8:46AM

  koyne, a couple of the war years were issued as paper supplements to prior years, not as full books. FYI.

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  December 8, 2009 10:12AM

  Leon-
  
  Thanks for the info-I didn't know that. I believe the first couple of editions are also paperback types of the book. I've found out how tough it is to put a set of these together-I've been at it for around seven years. I do have a couple with the dust jacket. The good thing about these is that it's far cheaper to put a set together than it is for the Red Book.

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• firstmint Posts: 1,171 ✭

  December 8, 2009 12:08PM

  There were 18 different HB editions made from 1934 to 1958.
  
  A self-covered paper supplement was put out in 1943.
  
  The dust jacket editions came later on the 16th - 18th editions.
  
  John Ford sold the rights to Whitman Publishing (the competitor) in 1967.
  
  It's not as easy as it may appear to acquire a complete set.

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