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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WeirdFishes, post: 1657638, member: 41261&quot;]Since discoverying my passion for rare coin collecting roughly 10 months ago, I have developed a voracious apettite for all sorts of Numismatic literature as well. I have amassed quite a nice library of Numismatic books consisting of approximately 10 different Whitman Publishing books such as those covering coint types such as Buffalo &amp; Jefferson Nickels, Morgan Dollars (by David Bowers), Franklin &amp; Kennedy Halves (Rick Tomaska), to name just a few. I have a number of Ken Bressett&#039;s books. Fivaz &amp; Stanton&#039;s Cherrypickers volumes, a rather rare book &quot;Ths Error Coin Encyclopedia&quot; which has been out of print for roughly 10 years (by Fred Weinberg and a coauthor whose name escapes me at the moment) as well as a few rare coin auction catalogs with my favorite being Stacks &amp; Bowers catalog for this past January&#039;s sale of the Cardinal Collection (featuring the unique SP-66 1794 Flowing Hair Dollar-Silver Plug which is currently a world record sale for the highest price paid for a coin at auction). I really enjoy this part of the hobby, which may sound strange to some, but for me it is a great way to learn the background information and history surrounding the coins I love. Additionallly (and in reality most importantly) I am slowly but surely aquiring the knowledge one needs to be a savvy coin collector with the ability to make wise purchases that provide the best value for my numismatic dollar. And so, a little earlier today I stopped at a local used book store to see if they happened to have any Numismatic literature I could add to my ever growing library. There were perhaps 20 different titles to choose from but there was one book in particular that immediately caught my attention causing me to assume an athletic pose similar to that of an NFL Defensive Lineman, ready to tackle anyone who would have attempted to get between me and that bookshelf. At once I snatched it off the shelf, and after a moment or two of holding the book in my hand and surveying my surroundings I realized that my initial reaction was perhaps unwarranted seeing as I was the only person in the entire 50 foot long aisle of books relating to Cooking and various Collecting Hobbies. None the less, the most important thing was that I was holding in my hands a Hardcover copy of Q. David Bowers &quot;The History of United States Coinage, As Illustrated by the Garrett Collection&quot; 4th printing, in like new condition. It cost me a whopping $19.95, and looks to be the most amazing book on the topic of US coins ever written. Does anyone else own a copy and is it as good as it looks to be from by quick flipping through the pages? Also is $20 a good price?</p><p>[ATTACH]243258.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]243257.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]243259.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]243276.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]243277.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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