Red Book - US Coins Deluxe Edition

Hi all,
Just got this amazing bargain at Barnes & Noble on the 1st Edition US Coins Deluxe Edition. This book is huge and heavy!
$9.98..that's $40.00 off the original price! Simply amazing!

 

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They were selling at Ollies for $7 a month or two back.

 

I have never heard of them

 

Ollie is a discount store that buys bulk amounts of goods that are either over stock,like rugs, flooring , lamps, all sorts of household items. Books , toys, you never know what they will have. Lawn care products anything and everything .

 

How funny.. I was just going to say the same thing.

They had the regular (2016?) red book for $2-$3 the last I was there as well.

 

It's quite a door stop, isn't it?

 

I think they call that the Mega Red book now, and they are on the 3rd edition (I just recently bought it).

My understanding is that each edition has a significantly beefed up section on a different denomination. I think the 1st edition focuses on copper, the 3rd edition has a huge section on nickels. I'm not sure I really like this approach.... if you've written the section, why only have it in one edition? Keep carrying it over, and by the end you'll have a replacement for Breen's encyclopedia.

 

Because the first edition would be 1500 pages, the second would be 1700 pages, the third is 1900 pages, the fourth is 2100 pages etc. By the time you get through all the series the latest issue is a 20 to 30 thousand page book. Your Mega Red looks like an old fashioned encyclopedia in one book. (For those too young to remember, a good encyclopedia could take up three to four feet of book shelf space.)

 

Encyclo WHAT?

 

That definitely looks like a very informative book. Does anyone know if there are significant differences between volumes in the standard, non-featured sections, or are they pretty much the same (minus the featured series)?

 

I would clear a whole shelf for a good, up-to-date, modern, fully referenced, authoritative US Coin encyclopedia. I've already cleared a couple of feet for Sear's Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Coin series.

 

The Mega books have quite a few differences than the standard Redbook. The listings are expanded in all coin types. The appendix section is different from edition to edition. There are definitely more pictures throughout the coin listings. The pictures are usually of varieties listed. The Mega goes way beyond the standard Redbook.

The first edition was on large copper. The second edition was on small copper. The third edition is on nickels. These expanded sections are not as comprehensive as a book solely written on said type coin. Still, a very informative quick reference book. Highly recommend.

 

Sure, but all in one book? It would have to be like the encyclopedia was, a series of volumes. You can do that by getting the standard reference for each series. Of course some of them aren't all that comprehensive. A second possibility might be the Whitman Redbook Series, each of the "redbooks" they have published for each series. That would take up several feet of shelf space as well, and still not be comprehensive.

 

@paddyman98 Thanks for the heads up. Got mine today. . . Now my arm hurts from carrying it around the store!

 

Practicality as well as enticing people to buy each new edition as they came out.

 

Gotta love Barnes and Noble!
I hope they can continue to thrive with the competition coming from these new Amazon book stores. Lets hope they don't suffer the same fate Borders did.

 

Great.. I learned a few new things reading a bit of it. Pictures are awesome!

 

READING IT? I was only planning to look at all the pretty pictures.

 

I hope Barnes & Noble is around for a long time too. Lots of good coin books.

 

That is a great buy.... I use mine all the time....have not got the second or third edition yet.... might wait until the fourth....