So how big is your coin library?

Mine are in quite a few moving boxes, still and probably will be for awhile.

 

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Mine grew to the point it filled my office. I could never throw anything out or find information because of it. I'm now down to sorting out about 30 feet. I found books lost years ago. Probably trashed over 500# of old Coin Worlds. I'm feeling really good about actually being able to find information.

 

Well, I have a ways to go before I can approach Doug's library. But I do have about three shelves, a lot of it is magazines and old auction catalogs.

 

Mine is no where near some other numbers mentioned but I only study a small segment of coins. I probably have about 4-5 feet of book shelf stuffed with books and magazine clippings on pre 1933 gold. There are a few random goodies like Rick Snow's book on Indian Cents.

 

Should we include what we can borrow from the ANA Library?

I've kept selected articles from magazines for about 10 years, filed in pendaflex hanging folders. Gets a lot in a small space. Books are about 3 feet of shelf space. Digital resources, who knows, a gig or so wouldn't surprise me.

 

About 3 feet of US references.
I haven't counted non-US references because I don't collect those coins anymore.
My Coin World's hit the recycle bin as soon as I finish reading them.
I clip a few articles out of Coin Values, then toss it when the next one arrives.
And I have a monthly subscription to CDN. The old ones get recycled as soon as the new ones show up.
That's about it.

 

I have four books: an old Red Book, an old Krause World Catalog before they split by century, an ANA grading guide, a Cherrypickers guide. I've borrowed and read a couple of other books.

 

I have a Redbook, a Blackbook=World coins and I have a little guidebook by Whitman. I think it's by Whitman, may be by someone else.

 

About 3 feet of shelf space. 2 CherryPickers, Ana,Pcgs,Nci Grading books
Authoritative reference Eisenhower 2nd edition, 4 redbooks
Plus my own comparative grading book I made 2 years ago takes up about
200 Gigabytes on my external drive.
Felt the need to take a year and teach myself coin grading, after seeing such
inconsistency and bias from one series to another. Even from one coin to another in the Professional coin grading services.

Stewart

Disclaimer: Any and all opinions are strictly my own and subject to being only worth the screen space they occupy

 

Everything I have is pretty much World coin stuff.

I have about 4 foot of numismatic books (primarily focus world gold)
and 8 foot of auction catalogs (I keep most all world coin catalogs from US and Europe auction houses).

Been accumulating since I started collecting in 2005

 

I have about 10' of bookshelf space dedicated to numismatics -- not including all the boxes of catalogs.

 

About 36 feet at home, 10 or 12 storage boxes in the back apartment, access to another 20 feet over at my fathers house, and four storage boxes here at the shop that need to go to the back apartment.

 

I have about 22 total feet of numismatic related books. Other than three or four feet for regular coinage, ancients, currency, and some foreign tokens, the rest is pretty much U.S. exonumia. 257 titles total, auction catalogs not included.

 

Books

A paultry 4 feet or so of my bookshelves are Numismatic books, but in that 4 feet I have the books that I need for what I collect. Also Breen's Opus, Newcomb, Sheldon etc. A few Bower's books on Major collections, Garret, Norweb, Brand etc.............. and some major auction catalogs. Wish I had more, working on it ! !

Tony

 

Just one book. I take all my coin books and glue them all together so they are just one big book now. Really hard to take off the shelf but now have a book with millions of pages.:goofer:
Just kidding of course. Scattered all over on different book cases. Only the entire Red Book series is together from the 1st to the present.

 

I think I might be pushing 3.5 feet since my last post in here, I'm waiting on three books in the mail now, and I plan on picking up Franks book soon.

 

I have many, many coins, but just keep the (current '10) one redbook.

 

Alas only 5 books, but I have the library of Congress available at my fingertips via the internet. Traci

 

I have the following

1. 2009 Red Book
2. 2010 Red Book
3. A Guide of Flying Eagle And Indian Head Cents
4. The Official ANA Gading Standards For United States Coins 6th Edition

The ANA Grading Standards book is on it's way.
I also plan on getting some more books, some about gold coins, and counterfeit detection.
Always good to arm yourself with knowledge.