Books on Coins

By Colin R Bruce II, Thomas Michael

2008 Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000 delivers comprehensive pricing compiled from data provided by 150 experts worldwide. One million price listings cover practically every coin minted from 1901 to 2000. In this 35th edition, you’ll find virtually everything you want to know about coins struck in the 20th century.

This volume of more than 2,000 pages includes valuations in up to five grades of preservation, accurate mintage figures, metallic composition, precious metal weights, mint and privy marks, dates, design details and historical backgrounds.

Whether you’re a researcher, collector or dealer, you’ll appreciate the useful reference information, including:

* Standard International Numeral Systems
* Grading Terminology and Abbreviations
* Precious Metal Weights
* Hejira Date conversion Chart
* Foreign Exchange Rates
* Country Index

Pages: 2,176 Size: 8.25 x 10.875 ISBN: 0-89689-500-9 Price: $55.00

You’ll also find listings for essays, patterns, pieforts, provas, trial strikes and special token issues, along with mind and proof sets. Order Directly from Krause Publications

The latest Nov/Dec 2007 issue of Die Variety News online bi-monthly magazine is now available in Adobe Acrobat© rich-text PDF (Portable Document File) which allows the viewer an extremely clear high resolution with dynamic zoom capability and detailed printing of each page.

This Nov/Dec issue #10 of DVN Magazine includes highlights on a Major doubled die discovered on a 1982 Lincoln cent, Mysterious doubled die found on a 2000-P Jefferson nickel, “More Presidential Dollar Doubled Dies and Errors;” “Another 2007 Lincoln Cent Doubled Die Reported;” “Die Clash Analysis on a Jefferson Dollar;” “Nice 1974-D Lincoln cent RPM Found” and this issue’s “Variety Spotlight” provides an in-depth look at the strong 1941 1c DDO#1. Plus the popular “This & That” section showcases many different types of varieties and errors submitted from Die Variety News Magazine readers

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By Q.David Bowers and David M. Sundman. Forward by Chester Krause and Clifford Mishler

In this beautifully illustrated book, two of America’s best-known numismatists take the reader on a personal guided tour of our nation’s greatest currency notes. They’re all inside: the Lazy Deuce, the Tombstone Note, the Buffalo Bill, and more.

You’ll see some familiar faces, such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and even Santa Claus… and meet some unique and colorful characters like the mad Emperor Norton. Battleships and locomotives, Army officers and Indians, politicians and polar bears—all these and more await you among the 100 Greatest American Currency Notes.

Item Number: 0794820069
Shipping Weight: 2.85 pounds
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HOUGHTON, ARTHUR & LORBER, CATHERINE, Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalog 2002 Part I Vol. I & II, Classical Numismatic Group & A.N.A., Lancaster, PA & New York, NY, 2002

Profusely illustrated showing on nearly 100 plates examples of virtually every coin denomination and type of every mint in every reign. Seleucid Coins, Part I, again gathers the coinage of the early Seleucid kings in a single work of reference. It incorporates the new material that’s come to light in the last half century. Both Newell’s reasoning and the contributions of later scholars are critically reappraised.

The authors have also conducted their own inquiries, using all available evidence, to arrive at many new attributions. Part I also includes historical background and expands the scope of Newell’s commentary.

It is organized by reign rather than by mint, with an historical introduction to each reign, followed by an overview of the coinage and discussion of the king’s mint policies and iconographic program.

Seleucid Coins is first and foremost a practical resource for coin identification and attribution. It is designed to be accessible to beginners, to numismatists who do not specialize in the Seleucids, and even to those with only a peripheral interest in numismatics (such as archeologists, historians, and art historians). To this end it includes four indices that enables searches by control marks, remarkable types, remarkable legends, and countermarks. Continued

GARRETT, JEFF AND GUTH, RON, Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins 1795-1933 Circulating, Proof, Commemoratives, and Pattern Issues, Whitman, Atlanta, 2006

In Cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution. United States Gold Coins have seen a popularity boom in recent years. Thousands of new collectors have discovered their rich and facinating history and appeal. Important collections, locked away for decades have come to light, and a new research has provided collectors and investors with a wealth of information previously unavailable.

There has never been a better time to explore the wonderful field of United States gold coinage-and the Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins 1795-1933 is your passport to that exploration.

Full Color. 656 Pages. By Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth, forward by Dr. Richard Doty. Purchase Here

Whitman Publishing has released of one of the most comprehensive, fact-filled, and interesting books on American paper money ever produced: Obsolete Paper Money Issued by Banks in the United States, 1782–1866, by Q. David Bowers. In 21 chapters rich with full-color illustrations, this 608-page book explores the engraving, printing, and circulation of obsolete currency. Bowers (the “dean of American numismatics”) takes the reader on an in-depth look at this paper money that witnessed so much history: the birth of states, the War of 1812, financial panics, inspiring westward expansion, and the devastating war between North and South. Hundreds of individual notes are pictured, along with vignettes, full sheets, and enlargements.

“Never before has so much information and so many illustrations been combined in a single volume,” said the author. Bowers draws upon original bank documents, contemporary newspapers, state bank commission reports, and other contemporary sources, bringing to light many facts never before presented in a numismatic publication. “This may be the best paper money book in years,” said Boston currency dealer Tom Denly. “It answers and teaches so much that, after 33 years dealing in obsolete notes, I learned a ton. Wonderful!”

“Obsolete Paper Money is a gem for the numismatist and historian,” said Whitman publisher Dennis Tucker. “Dave Bowers takes you right inside a currency-issuing bank of the 1800s, and explains how this paper money worked in day-to-day life. He makes history come alive.” An appendix concludes the book with “The Treasures of the ABNCo Archives”—a gallery of bank-note plates, vignettes, and other items from the massive American Bank Note Company hoard sold in 2005

Published in hardcover (with a dustjacket), 8.5 x 11-inch format, fully indexed, and printed on high-quality paper
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item Number: 0794822037
Shipping Weight: 4.65 pounds