I went to the coin shop I got a little too excited and bought a ton of books and tubes. Books Guide book 2 US coins(redbook) editions 12,14,15,17,18,23,32,36,43 and 50. Bluebook 62,63,68,69,96. Numistic scrapbook magazine Jan. 65,Feb. 65,Jan. 69,March 69,May 69. Numismatist Apr. 58,Jan. 59,March 66, Apr 66 A guide 2 grading US coins 4th ed.(x2) Standard catalog of Canadian coins, tokens a nd paper money 1965 n 66 Catalog of modern world coins 2nd and 4th ed. Blackbook 1968 High profits from rare coin investments 7th and 12th ed. Official guide to confederate money n civil war tokens 1st ed. Most authentic coin guide of US coins 1968 The green coin book Apprasing and selling your coins1964 Coins by John Porteous 1964 Stacks auction catalog 82,83,84 and stacks fixed price guide 54 2 catalogs from bowers and ruddy Bowers and merena stetson university collection may 93 15 books on paper money 3 on israel medals and coins 4 on world coins Medals of Karl Goetz by Gunter w. Kienast 1967 9 books on stamps 2 canada 1978 souvenir collection (stamps) sportscard counterfeit detector book Basic knowledge for the coin collector (coin world staff) 1976 8th ed. and more! 5 boxes in total. Also between 1 or 2 thousand (misc. sized)previously used plastic coin tubes.(rough estimate) Thats not even all of it. Now, what to do? Read all the books and then sell, donate to library, keep and learn? Try and turn aquick profit?(would be hard 4 me to do love books and coins). Should I keep the tubes and try and fill them with the "lower" mintage current coins for a few generations or so? Which coins? Sell them? If selling, do a bulk lot or break into smaller lots? Would I even be able to sell used tubes and for how much? I know this is a lot of info and a lot of questions, but now that everything is unpacked, not sure what to do. What would you do? Please advise! and thanks.
Stainless, I think it was 2 late 4 lotto after I got done unpacking and taking the tape off all (most) of the tubes.
why not come down here and buy from spock with chapter 11 round the corner if you are going to blow money get quality coins while you are at it
Didn't know U were selling. What U got? PM me if serious. Coins were an added bonus and did not expect them. Now, what should I do?
The Noost: Someone who listened to the phrase " Buy the book before the coin"! Excellent purchases! you mentioned: "Books Guide book 2 US coins(redbook) editions 12,14,15,17,18,23,32,36,43 and 50. Bluebook 62,63,68,69,96." You have a nice start on a collection, why not go for it? Are any of the books signed by Yeoman? If so, PM me. :thumb:
Wow! I think you need to address your buying compulsion as the next step before you enter another coin shop. Use what you already bought to learn and eventually focus on exactly what you want to achieve -- then stick to it and don't get sidetracked into buying anything and everything in sight.
wow... thats allot of books. I guess the next step is to read them. and definitely don't sell them, why? Keep them as reference.. theres no way you can read all those books and soak it all in by the time your done. Keep them, you'll re-read them later and realize you "missed" a part.
I would agree with snaz, read them and keep them, as they will not stop providing valuable reference information, and some of them are collectors items in themselves. It would be wise to keep them organized well.
Nice book buying spree. My first suggestion would be to add on a library to your house, then we'll go from there! Guy~
plastic coin tubes, no big deal. The rest is the start of what could turn into a stellar numismatic library. I wish I had the good fortune to come across a find like that. I've been building my library since the purchase of a 1987 redbook as my very first ref book, it wasn't til I had been collecting for almost 10 years that I bought my second, and now I buy one every chance I can get.
Definitely keep the books. You'll be glad you did. Excellent find! Those coin tubes are pretty good for soaking ancient coins that need some crust taken off. If you don't want to get into cleaning ancient coins, you might can sell them to someone who does.
I would love to have that size of a numismatic library! I say keep it all if you can afford to. If not, I'll buy some of it if the price is good.
Several options are available if you just think about all the possibilities. 1. Continue buying books and build a library and rent out those books to get your money back 2. Begin purchasing books on how to organize a library, book collection, etc. 3. You missed many books on coins marked with a B.C. after the date 4. Now where are the books on Beanie Babies, Hot Wheel Cars, Baseball/Football cards, Yo-Yos and auto hub cap collecting? If that coin store sells books on stamps and sports card counterfeits, they may have those too. 5. Need coin books on Mexico coins since that will probably the monitary system here soon :smile 6. My primary suggestion is to stop walking on the same side of the street where there are coin stores. 7. Drill a small hole in the top of the plastic tubes for a wick. Fill the tube with gun powder, seal, cover with tape and light for the 4th of July. 8. WHAT, no coin books on coins from Germany? I feel overlooked. Almost all kidding. ALMOST. However, in reality try focusing on some coins for a change. You may just have to much money to spend.
