| Buying the book before the coin
The words one always says to a new collector is "buy the book before the coin".
However, how many of you do this? How many of you go out and get some good books on the series your're interested in. Say if the only books for that series are over your budget, how can you buy the books?
Let's assume your doing a type set, do any of you really go out and buy every top notch book for every series...that would be buying the book before the coin.
Why not, "study the series before buying". that would be better. We have a free way to do that, being the internet. Of course, books help, but like said above, they can be costly.
I have two books, and am working on getting a third. These three books will run me almost as much as my entire collection, and two of these are just very basic books that can reseached over the internet. As, some of you know, I collect ancient coinage, and the reference books for these can run several hundreds.
thoughts?
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