This is nuts...

Are you KIDDING ME???? Some of you nutjobs collect Red Books???

There is a Red Book of Red Books?!?!?

http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/a-guide-book-of-the-official-red-book-of-united-states-coins.html

 

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Um, yes. I'm one of those nut jobs There are some nut jobs who collect Playboys and Time and NatGeo too.

One of the membership is the nut job author of the book.
I hope he's as amused by this as I am. It HAS been printed annually since 1946 (I think). Maybe @Treashunt will correct me

According to some people I'm a nut job for collecting coins too.



I'm just nuttier then a Edited: Language

 

What's wrong with that link? 15 dollars is about right for a current edition.

 

Tell Mike it was just business.

 

Did you call me?

Nut job here.

 

There's a second edition redbook being offered on a well known auction site (not ebay) for $600. Saw it last night but not sure if it was an auction or bin without going back to check. Those early buggers can get expensive

That redbook about redbooks is freaking hilarious.

 

Just one example:

Special leather edition:

 

1st edition, 1st printing & 2nd printing.
Both among best copies known

 

Heck, most of us build a collection of Red Books anyway in the course of numismatic business as usual. It's a very small stretch to contemplate acquiring the full series, and Nut Job....um, Frank's work would be an important part of knowing what you'd need to do so. And by creating his book, it becomes part of that necessary list for the collection.

No moss growing on that man.

 

About 15-16 years ago I bought a second edition in mint condition at an estate sale for a then princely sum of $1.

 

A guy I know bought a 2nd edition @ a flea market for a $1 last summer. I was there when he proudly pulled it out of his backpack with a gleam in his eyes. I still wish I'd have checked the big dusty box of books b4 he got @ them. Those types of finds are what keeps me going!!

 

Here's a little something you may like to know..... the nut job who wrote the book on Red books for the nut jobs whom collect red books......is a member here!

 

Um, Paddy, Frank's already posted in this thread this morning....

 

Frank who?

 

Nut Job member here, although I haven't vigorously pursued them.

 

Books are highly collectible, and there are many publications that give estimates of worth and rarity on varying books. There are strict standards for books for their condition that have to be met to be called something, like new, fine, etc.

There is nothing wrong with collecting red books as a hobby by itself or as an adjunct to the hobby of numismatics.

I don't collect red books, but if I saw one at an estate sale in a condition that had value over and above the price I had to buy it for, I would purchase it and re-sell it.
I've sold other books at times, and one book that was printed about a WWII company I bought for 4.00 at a junk shop. It sold for close to 90.00 on ebay. I purchased a first edition, in nearly new shape for 4.99 at a goodwill store of Darkly Dreaming Dexter in Hardback. This was the basis for the series that became really popular. I held on to it for about four years and then put it up on Ebay. It sold for just about 35.00. Another book I bought for 2.00 sold for 22.00 on ebay. None of those books were ones I would find collectible for myself, but someone did and wanted them. Do I knock the people who collect those? No. Because it's no better or worse than some other hobbies.

Also, some here think I am a nut job because I primarily collect modern clad coins (those in the US after 1964) which I pull out of circulation, and which have not a lot of interest or value. But it is a fun thing for me, and I have just started getting to really know the Ikes and collect those (if not to keep permanently, to re-sell). Some people would think I'm a nut job just for that.

 

@Treashunt -

All you need to do now is have those books slabbed by a TPG. Now that would be cool!

 

Maybe cgc will start Slabbing them like comics

 

It may be that I completely missed the context of post #2 here, and Treashunt's reply in post #5. That led me to believe he's the author, but the next time context flies completely over my head would be far from the first. Like, if you're being sarcastic I completely missed that.

 

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Oh, geez! Don't let Modern Coin Mart get wind of that idea. Those clowns would slab anything. Not to mention, the slab would have to have their own exclusive label. Hopefully, it would be designated First Strike and also be Mercanti-signed and all that other happy (albeit meaningless) horsehockey.