Predict future "Red Books"

"The Complete Guide to Slab Varieties that You Should Care About. Really, you SHOULD care. Really! I mean it! You SHOULD care. Please? Won't you please care?"

 

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A Guide Book of Slabbed Slabs that are Slabbed in Commemorative Slabs

 

The PCGS Price Guide for Graded Nails, With a Special Introduction from Heritage Auctions

 

Guide book on starting a world coin collection

 

This is already a book but not a "Red Book" and I don't think the author is David Lange.

 

Getting likes is easy. Post pics. Also, post in the ancients forums... I get a lot of likes there.

Oh, and my entry into the future "Red Books" suggestion pile: A Guidebook of Stuff I've Put Into 3 or 4 Other Books by Q. David Bowers.

 

actually there is one, it was printed in the 1970's (?) I forget the year, and is extremely scarce.

 

yes it is:

http://www.amazon.com/Coin-Collecting-Boards-1930s-1940s/dp/B000W1UZLQ

 

Ah, I stand corrected.

I don't like the premise of this thread. People collect coins and related items and this thread feels like it's dumping on these collectable niches. Maybe I'm misinterpreting it but I think it's good that there are references available for these items.

 

A Guide Book to Numismatics, How To Use Your Credit Card, by Red Book !

 

Yup.

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A Guide Book to the Guide Books written by Dave Bowers.

 

A Guide Book to Getting a 'like' from Doug!

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/should-doug-give-me-a-like.265549/

 

https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/3608/Langes-book-on-The-National-Coin-Album-Book-Now-Available/
Here's the first volume. It is by David Lange.

 

It started out kind of serious and quickly became silly. I think some of the ones I originally posted are good ideas. For example the Red Book of Biographies. Each chapter would be a different biography. If you have a 600 page book and devoted 20 or so pages per chapter you could have a bretty good book, I think.

 

Actually, one that I'm really looking forward to (that is real) and is supposed to come out in the near future is A Guide Book of Seated Liberty Silver Coins by Q. David Bowers. And I'm just dying for any kind of update on it.

 

A Guide Book to Numismatical Gadgets.

Once upon time there was a gadget to measure die rotation. There was a gadget that detected the weight difference between a zinc cent and brass cent. There was a clamping gadget for cracking slabs. There was some kind of container-like gadget that you placed your coin in and placed a Polariod over that to do some "coin photography."

There have been numerous gadgets for detecting counterfeit coins or fake bullion.

I hope I'm remembering this right but I remember a strange letter in the 80's to one of the publications ( I think the Numismatist) from someone who claimed they had a process for toning coins that did not involve any chemical or mechanical methods or even anything touching or attached to the coin. Maybe it used mojo waves? But I never heard anthing more about it. Does anyone remember that?

I bet there are hundreds if not thousands of coin collecting gadgets from past centuries. What about a circular slide rule for computing the investment potential of a coin?

 

@Treashunt you stole my thunder... Lol I was going to suggest that too..

 

To Be Filed Under Light Reading - A Guide Pamphlet to Single-Squeeze Hubbing Doubled Dies, 1996-Present

Actually there are a decent amount of DDs since single-squeeze was started, just not too many that are naked-eye visible or classic in the sense of a 1955/1972 1c or 1961 50c.