It occurred to me that many of you coin collectors out there might have some really interesting old coin books that you have picked up along the way. Why not post a few pictures and descriptions? (OK - I was looking for an excuse to post my one - so there! :binky Folke's Tables of of English Coins, first published in 1736, this edition updated and re-issued after his death by his friends in the Society of Antiquities in 1763. Not much use a reference book these days, but nevertheless a delight to own!
Wow, nice!! => Paddy, that's a gorgeous old coin-book (very cool) My wife has several antique "non-coin" books, but sadly I cannot add any antique coin-books to your thread ... Super-cool book!! (full-points) :thumb:
And SKI, your coin/medal history is cool too, except I had not seen that post yet when I wrote my reply. By the way, I do have some old books, just not about coins. Errm, wait ... this Italian-French-German dictionary from 1674 has, on page 569, this entry: moneta, monnoye, Müntze. (And a few compounds and idioms.) Does that count? Christian
I have a book from 1696 that is a reference of all of the Roman emperors and Imperators. At the beginning of each ruler they have a coin from him. The funny thing is that half of them are Renaissance medals. I am not sure if they knew the difference, or it didn't matter.
Maybe beyond it didn't matter is a preference for the fine art of their day rather than that old fashioned original stuff. We do that today when we show historical figures looking Hollywood handsome rather than unwashed and uncouth as many of them probably were. I recall shooting my only old book the last time this question arose on one of these lists. I believe the date was 1754 or so but the interesting part was that the book was a compilation of more than one unrelated work only one of which was on coins. In the day, it was more important to have books that looked good on a shelf together and matched in one of a few standard sizes. The book on coins of the old kings was not hefty enough to deserve a binding by itself.
Ummm, I admit that these aren't coin books, but these first editions are so cool that I feel I must let you dudes take a peek ...
My grandmother got this 1948 foreign coin buying book in the 1950's: Premium Catalog of Modern Foreign Coins S. Kellogg Stryker, Sole Distributor Published 1948, Oradell, New Jersey, 48 Pages Copyright 1948 by Hewitt Bros I put all of the pages on my website.
