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01-24-2008, 02:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: West Central Florida
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| Numismatic literature: How many coin books and numismatic magazine subscriptions?
Just curious, does everyone here purchase numismatic literature as much as I do (including auction catalogs). How many do you have and what type. Include red books, etc as well. It all counts. My latest count is 34 books and 4 magazine subscriptions.
furthermore, how much emphasis do you place on having these as part of your numismatic experience? Share your experience.
Books.: 34
1. Auction catalogs: 7
2. Red books: 11
3. Specific series /type books: 5
4. General numismatic interest: 3
5. Foreign: 4
6 Token specific: 4
subscriptions: 4
1. Coin World
2. Worldwide Coins
3. World Coin News.
4. Numismatic News.
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01-24-2008, 02:57 PM
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I have
5 or so Red books
3 (soon to be 8) Krause publications on the 'Standard catalog' books for both coins and currency.
1 magazine subs (soon to be 2)
Numismatic news
and hopefully soon the banknote reporter
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01-24-2008, 03:48 PM
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| | Numismatist
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: South Dakota
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Oh, going out on a limb here I guess.
Two subscriptions magazines : Monthly, COINage; Quarterly, John Reich Collectors Society, JRCS
Numismatic Books -- 30-50
Take Care
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01-24-2008, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: California
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I'm a bit of a book person, so anytime I find a book on coins or the Mint or gold, I buy it. Have over 60 books, some many years out of print and on the verge of rare. magazines...I like Coins and Coin World. They make for entertaining reading at work.
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01-24-2008, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: PA
Posts: 3,682
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I have the following....
46 Red Books
22 Blue Books
The Experts Guide-Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins
CherryPickers Guide 4th Edition Vol.2
ANA Grading Standards for United States Coins
Photograde
A Guide Book "Red Book" of Lincoln Cents
A Guide Book of Morgan Dollars
Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins
The United States Half Dimes by D.W. Valentine
Subscriptions...
Coin World
ANA magazine "The Numismatist"...if you count that as a subscription.
Thats about it.
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01-24-2008, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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I have about a dozen coin books.
3 subscriptions
CoinWorld
Numismatic News
Coin Values
I'm going to drop Numismatic News because it largely duplicates the content of CoinWorld. (Please, down't throw any vegetables, if I've dissed someone's favorite publication).
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01-24-2008, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dry Heat USA
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few dozen books
several old catologs
subs: CW,NN,CDN
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01-24-2008, 07:54 PM
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| | Numismatist
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: PA
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More catalogs than I care to count - I have subscriptions for catalogs. Three subscriptions for periodicals by mail, half a dozen subscriptions for periodicals by email. Hundreds of books, more being purchased all the time. Thousands of computer files and pictures.
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01-24-2008, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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I have hundreds of Coin Mag's....old ANA, CoinWorld, NN, etc...
The number of Auction Catalogs is getting bigger and bigger all the time...
And books---that is growing too....I would guess that I have 60+ books....and whenever I can I get the books signed as well.
Speedy
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01-24-2008, 08:26 PM
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| | Numismatist In Training
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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I have been meaning to organize my numismatic books but I have not quite gotten to that point yet. I have scores of books, probably somewhere between 100 and 200. Most are packed away in boxes. Many of these I bought at ANA book sales and have never gotten around to reading. (I'm a sucker for cheap books, especially a box of books for $5.)
I subscribe to:
Coin World
Numismatist
Coin Dealer Newsletter
The Commemorative Trail (Society for US Commemorative Coins)
Bo Tales (Original Hobo Nickel Society)
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01-24-2008, 09:09 PM
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| | U.S. Money Collector
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ
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01-24-2008, 09:15 PM
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| | Likes Silver
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Missouri
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Redbooks: About 8
Grading books: 3
Other coin books: 1
Auction Catalogues: Probably 2 dozen
Subscriptions: 3
Numismatic News
Coinworld
CoinValues
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01-24-2008, 09:34 PM
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| | Coins = <3
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pennsylvania
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Subscription:
CONECA
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01-24-2008, 09:50 PM
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| | You get what you pay for.
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Nebraska/Iowa
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subcriction to coin world, ana.
5 red books, 4 ana grading guides 2nd,3rd,4th,6th editions, 100 greatest coins 2nd ed., walter brens complete encyclopedia of us and colonial coins (got that one for less than $50 in new condition), the list goes on and on. probably 30 or so more books, some of them quite expensive too.
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01-24-2008, 10:02 PM
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| | Researching Coins
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You know the old saying--buy the book before you buy the coin.
Speedy
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