What is one book you can't live without?

A coin collector is only as good as his references.

Is their a book you use so often that you almost have it memorized?

What numismatic book can't you live without?


Personally I find myself using the PCGS Grading & Counterfeit Detection Guide so much I need to get a new copy because my pages have begun to fall out.

 

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Cherrypickers' Guide, 5th edition, volume 1. TC

 

I have a few dozen reference books. I find myself using all of them at any given time, but no one so much that I have it memorized. I can't live without all of them!

Chris

 

US Early Half Dollar Die Varieties 1794-1836 by Parsley. I've even added my own pages as new varieties have been discovered, or I've needed to add notes and diagnostics of my own.
Guy

 

agreed, anything else has many references, but this...

 

Red Book. Yes I am a n00b.

 

photograde!

 

The Redbook is like family. We like to talk bad about it, but honestly, n00b to pro, if it weren't for the Redbook I doubt many of us would be collectors to begin with.

 

I think we all use the Red Book. Values aside, it's a convenient and much needed reference book.

 

Greysheet or Redbook!

 

For US coins, I start with Breen, then onto specialized references like Overton, WB, or Sheldon depending on what it is.

 

For me every month of the Green sheet, books become so outdated very quickly as there
Values actually mean nothing by the time there released!

 

Easy - redbook. Everything else I have, except for grading guides are, specific to a coin type.

 

Walter Breen's US Coins is specific? Heavy, yes, specific, no.

 

Ok Doug, you got me. What is Delmonte's De Beneluxe D'or? A book on Belgian and Dutch coins?

 

LOL - That is one I don't have. I should edit that to say "everything else I have".

 

my set of krause catalogues are essential for me, and i have a very old book about british coinage from celtic times to the 1950's

 

Isn't it pretty specialized for your "world coins" pick? It would be like me picking Sellwood's Parthian Coins for my pick on Ancients. Great for what it covers, but pretty narrow....