I was just handed a package, and a delightful numismatic tome was contained within…
Longacre
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As I write these words, gentle readers, I am toiling away in my office for The Man, deep into a reading of the proposed Treasury regulations surrounding Section 987 of the Internal Revenue Code. My Tax Bliss™ was interrupted momentarily, as one of my personal assistants handed me a package.
I opened the package, and contained within was The Secret History of the First United States Mint, hot off the Chinese presses. A review of the book will be forthcoming, but I wanted to give my initial impressions here.
The book is in full color, and comprises 318 meaty pages. A delightful picture of Messrs. Orosz and Augsburger, the authors of the book, greets the readers on Page IV. They say that married people start to look like each other after a while, but perhaps writing a book together with someone has the same effect.
A Foreword by numismatic literary great Eric Newman is provided, and the book contains a Preface, Acknowledgments, an Introduction, ten chapters, an Afterword, 5 Appendixes, Notes, a Bibliography, and an Index. Flipping through the pages briefly, I see full color pictures on nearly every page, and a well laid-out format throughout. The text is clean and clear, and well footnoted. In today’s age of Tweets, IMs, and other means of communication for short attention-spanned persons, it is nice to peruse nearly 25 pages of footnotes, which are chock full of information and lend credibility to the text that one is reading.
Tomorrow, I need to take a business trip to Washington, DC. Longacre decided to help reduce his carbon footprint and ride the rails on this trip, rather than taking a jet. I will be sure that the person carrying my bag tomorrow will have my copy of The Secret History of the First US Mint contained within, as I glide along the New Jersey countryside, sipping a cognac, and enjoying the pleasures of this important numismatic tome.
I opened the package, and contained within was The Secret History of the First United States Mint, hot off the Chinese presses. A review of the book will be forthcoming, but I wanted to give my initial impressions here.
The book is in full color, and comprises 318 meaty pages. A delightful picture of Messrs. Orosz and Augsburger, the authors of the book, greets the readers on Page IV. They say that married people start to look like each other after a while, but perhaps writing a book together with someone has the same effect.
A Foreword by numismatic literary great Eric Newman is provided, and the book contains a Preface, Acknowledgments, an Introduction, ten chapters, an Afterword, 5 Appendixes, Notes, a Bibliography, and an Index. Flipping through the pages briefly, I see full color pictures on nearly every page, and a well laid-out format throughout. The text is clean and clear, and well footnoted. In today’s age of Tweets, IMs, and other means of communication for short attention-spanned persons, it is nice to peruse nearly 25 pages of footnotes, which are chock full of information and lend credibility to the text that one is reading.
Tomorrow, I need to take a business trip to Washington, DC. Longacre decided to help reduce his carbon footprint and ride the rails on this trip, rather than taking a jet. I will be sure that the person carrying my bag tomorrow will have my copy of The Secret History of the First US Mint contained within, as I glide along the New Jersey countryside, sipping a cognac, and enjoying the pleasures of this important numismatic tome.
Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
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When is the Kindle version coming out?
<< <i>Sorry to burst your numismatic bubble, but I think that buying a book, printed in China, offsets any carbon footprint reduction you made by traveling by train. An ebook, on the other hand, is the preferred low carbon way to read.
When is the Kindle version coming out? >>
SLAMMED!
Man - rough crowd.
<< <i>Sorry to burst your numismatic bubble, but I think that buying a book, printed in China, offsets any carbon footprint reduction you made by traveling by train. An ebook, on the other hand, is the preferred low carbon way to read.
When is the Kindle version coming out? >>
LMAO
<< <i>one publisher just announced that e-books sold to libraries will expire after being read a certain number of times (26?). >>
I am going to go first thing in the morning.
I do that EVERY morning.
<< <i>Sorry to burst your numismatic bubble, but I think that buying a book, printed in China, offsets any carbon footprint reduction you made by traveling by train. An ebook, on the other hand, is the preferred low carbon way to read.
When is the Kindle version coming out? >>
I heard somebody talking on the radio today about the Nook
e-reader. Sounds funny when you say it out loud......
At the Baltimore show, Frank Greenberg of Delaware Valley Rare Coin is graciously allowing us to exhibit his Frank H. Stewart Electric Company calendar from 1916.
The calendar features a lithographic reproduction of John Ward Dunsmore's "Inspection of the First Money Coined by the United States." This large format calendar appears to be unique in private hands. It has not been displayed publicly since the Philadelphia ANA in 2000.
We will be setup next to the Whitman booth (#1463) all day Friday and Saturday.
I don't believe it is unique in private hands.
"short attention- spanned persons"
edit to add: I forgot what I was going to say.
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