I have inherited a bunch of old "The Numismatist" books. Are they worth anything to anyone or are they full of outdated useless information? 1913 2 -12 1929 Complete 1932-1934 Complete 1937-1939 Complete 1945 Complete 1946 1-3,5,6,9-11 1949 Complete 1951-1957 Complete 1962-1965 Complete 1970-1973 Complete 1978-1983 Complete 1990 Complete Any information would be helpful. I don't want to trash them if they are of use to someone. Thank you.
I am VERY interested but I am in the middle of a move. I will be relocated the week of October 17. Where are these? I am in central PA. Moving to Harrisburg, a pitching wedge distance from the Capitol. 9-iron with a hurting wind, which will be the prevailing one come November. The Numismatist is almost the ONLY publication worth saving longer term, IMHO.
There are people who like collecting old numismatic literature. The 40s and earlier would definitely have value to the right person, probably most of the others as well. The 90s might be a little hard
Yup, the ANA wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to digitize the entire back catalog of The Numismatist and make it available to the membership if it wasn't of value historically.
The Numismatist - Are old ones worth anything to anyone? Nah . . . they're wrinkly, old near-sighted curmudgeons that sit around doing nothing but playing with dirty old defective washers.
Yes, definitely worth something to the right person. But as with anything collectible, condition is everything. Best to bag and board these asap if in nice condition to protect them from any further damage. Try looking some up on ebay to see what they are going for. Or maybe after Kurt's move you might be able to work something out with him.
Before you sell, check with some of the numismatic book sellers, you can get a comparison. Yeah some of those old guys that live in the 50s, might like them to remind themselves when coin collectors were really collectors. not the young whippersnappers collectors on youtube.
In some of them information can be found that cannot be found anywhere else. Of course one can only find that out by sitting down and carefully reading them.
Hey Doug, I do that; I suspect YOU do that; but the newb generation? Sometimes I swear if it doesn't fit in a pithy comment block on a stupid website, they're not capable of reading it. I love and prefer "long form". Always will. But then that's just li'l ol' dinosaur me - I prefer books to websites, too. How DO I survive? Heck, I've never even once HAD a Facebook account, and never will.
There is a group of collectors that specialize in Numismatic Books. Check out the Numismatic Bibliomania Society http://www.coinbooks.org/ I love reference books, but try to be practical in what I keep on the shelves. My guess is that you have enough older volumes to be of interest to someone. Depending on the condition, they may even be worth a premium. As others have said, check out some numismatic booksellers to get an idea of prices. Charles Davis and Kolbe & Fanning are 2 that come to mind but there are others. Like coins, condition is everything for Old volumes of The Numismatist
The Numismatist is available online if you are an ANA member and it has been indexed via OCR, which can lead to some, um, interesting results. Even on a large format tablet, it just feels different paging through the electronic magazine vs. paper.
The eternal issue for those on the downhill side of life. Something with which I am struggling this very minute. The numismatist is a special case. Because of the nature of its editorial content (and ads, to an extent), it stands as an important historical journal of the field. The content is less newsy and more scholarly.
