Value on "Star Rare Coin Encyclopedia" 1928 B. Max Mehl

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• savoyspecial Posts: 7,298 ✭✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 8:44AM

  these are very neat to read and have on the bookshelf but Mr. Mehl printed so many that i dont think it will ever be hard to come by a copy

  www.brunkauctions.com

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• savoyspecial Posts: 7,298 ✭✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 8:45AM

  p.s. how much do you want for the copy of "Coins" with the 1913 Liberty nickel on the cover?

  www.brunkauctions.com

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• pennyannie Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 9:45AM

  What did you pay for the lot? I bought a few Mehl catalogs a few years back for a few dollars each.

  Mark
  NGC registry V-Nickel proof #6!!!!
  working on proof shield nickels # 8 with a bullet!!!!
  
  RIP "BEAR"

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• shorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 9:59AM

  In that condition, likely $5. They trade from $3-$15. I don't happen to know if that's a scarce issue, but say $5'ish.

  ANA-LM, NBS, EAC

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• Coinosaurus Posts: 9,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 1:36PM

  Yup, they were printed by the jillions. The only valuable ones would be very early or very late in the series, or special binding & presentation editions.

  Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org

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• kryptonitecomics Posts: 9,185 ✭

  January 14, 2010 1:55PM

  I bought one on Ebay a few years back for $10-$15 with shipping

  Kryptonitecomics Ebay Auctions

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• oklahomadanny Posts: 172 ✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 4:28PM edited July 8, 2017 4:58AM

  
  Wow, all you guys/gals came thru big time! A big to all of you.
  
  I was surprised by the answers. I figured with a cost a dollar ( would seem like a lot in1928) they would have been scarcer. Also the fact that they were so heavily printed (jillions ). I know coin collecting has always been a big hobby just not this long ago. Like all kids I had a pennies & nickel collection back in the early to mid sixties. Would be interesting to compare the 1928 issue (before the 1929 stock market crash) with one issued in 1930-31.
  
  As for cost, $2.99 + 3.55 s&h = $6.54.
  
  Remember, if you have and questions on paper money you're always welcome over at the U.S. & World Currency forums. We'll welcome you as you have welcomed me on this forum.
  
  

  
  
  Dad 1916-2014

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• coinguy1 Posts: 13,484 ✭✭✭

  January 14, 2010 10:21PM

  
  
  << <i>Wow, all you guys/gals came thru big time! A big to all of you.
  
  I was surprised by the answers. I figured with a cost a dollar ( would seem like a lot in1928) they would have been scarcer. Also the fact that they were so heavily printed (jillions ). I know coin collecting has always been a big hobby just not this long ago. Like all kids I had a pennies & nickel collection back in the early to mid sixties. Would be interesting to compare the 1928 issue (before the 1929 stock market crash) with one issued in 1930-31.
  
  As for cost, $2.99 + 3.55 s&h = $6.54.
  
  Remember, if you have and questions on paper money you're always welcome over at the U.S. & World Currency forums. We'll welcome you as you have welcomed me on this forum.
  
  Thanks everyone. Danny. >>
  
  Hi Danny, the few copies I have were given to me as gifts by collectors and dealers who knew that I am related to B. Max Mehl - he was my grandmother's uncle But I promise, I'm not posting to your thread and telling you that in the hopes that you will give me yours, too I think it's great that you feel so good about the welcome you received here.

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• sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭

  January 15, 2010 4:19AM

  sales catalogs frequently have costs printed on them and given away at location - makes it seem like a bargain for thge information
  but they are just a we have this (or can get this) for this price and would like to sell it to you listing catalog
  
  
  even some of the crap catalogs you get in the mail today have prices printed on them, yet cost you nothing

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• lcoopie Posts: 8,873 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 15, 2010 12:49PM

  give it to Mark

  LCoopie = Les

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• LostSisler Posts: 521 ✭✭✭

  January 15, 2010 2:22PM

  I own the oldest known photo of Mehl. I have it framed and it's in the front room. It was taken in 1893 and used in his later catalogs showing him when he was the equivalent of a "YN".

  Because to Err is Human.
  I specialize in Errors, Minting, Counterfeit Detection & Grading.
  Computer-aided grading, counterfeit detection, recognition and imaging.

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