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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Phil from Texas, post: 276393, member: 10146&quot;]Cloudsweeper99,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just Carl hasn&#039;t requested an apology.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What concerns <b>me</b> is that a newcomer might read this board and believe the misleading assertion that the Red Book is &quot;full of&quot; errors, when <i>it&#039;s not</i>. That would definitely do a disservice to a hobby that prides itself on tradition.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My Grandfather was a press operator for Western Publishing (Whitman Books) in the great state of Wisconsin, and he took pride in his work. He knew everyone who worked on the Red Book back in the day, and he responded the same way to people who complained about typos. Especially to those who complained by demeaning the people who worked hard to produce the world&#039;s greatest numismatic book for the world&#039;s greatest hobby.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For someone to complain that the advertisements don&#039;t have page numbers (<i>open any book or magazine; ad pages are not numbered!),</i> and that the 1873-CC dime shouldn&#039;t be worth $1 million because more than 12,000 of them were minted, is beyond reasonable. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Every book in the world has typos. If a coin goes from $10 in Fine to $120 in VF and to $14 in EF.... guess what? the $120 is a typographical error! <i>Get over it!</i> Any book that has hundreds of thousands of data entries will have a typographical error! Doesn&#039;t mean &quot;the whole book is full of errors.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The &quot;this is not a price list&quot; wording just means that the Red Book is not a dealer&#039;s catalog, and you can&#039;t order coins from it! How is that &quot;misleading&quot; and how could it harm a hobby newcomer?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Am I passionate about the Red Book? <b>Yes</b>, I&#039;m <i>very</i> passionate about the greatest book that&#039;s ever come to our hobby, and has introduced <i>millions</i> of people to coin collecting with a kick-butt overview of every coin ever minted by the U.S. Mint and going all the way back to the Colonies. I have great memories of starting in the hobby and reading the Red Book and having it open up the amazing world of coins, tokens, and medals. Great book, great hobby, and great people in the hobby. Carl posts some inspiring, informative, educational, and helpful posts, and I know he&#039;s a Red Book fan at heart, as he&#039;s said in the past. His complaints could turn people off to collecting and that&#039;s what I <i>don&#039;t</i> want to see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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