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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 26360127, member: 112&quot;]I don&#039;t know if you could actually call it the &quot;holy grail&quot; of coin books, but it&#039;s a safe bet it would be in the running for the title.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1511, Margarethe Peutinger, yes a woman, wrote and had published one of the first books printed on an actual printing press. It was a treatise of the coins of the Roman Emperors, complete with images. </p><p><br /></p><p>Granted, there were numerous books about coins written long before that, but they were all hand written. This one was the very first one ever actually printed. A copy of which was sold at auction in the early 2000&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>I first posted, here on the forum, about this book over 20 years ago. And I posted about it several other times as well over the years. Those thread make for some interesting reading. You can find those threads here -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-not-so-easy.1776/#post-12162" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-not-so-easy.1776/#post-12162">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/trivia-not-so-easy.1776/#post-12162</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/its-been-a-while.19913/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/its-been-a-while.19913/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/its-been-a-while.19913/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/does-anyone-know.219141/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/does-anyone-know.219141/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/does-anyone-know.219141/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-shows.301654/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-shows.301654/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coin-shows.301654/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-coins-were-considered-collectable-200-years-ago.340826/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-coins-were-considered-collectable-200-years-ago.340826/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-coins-were-considered-collectable-200-years-ago.340826/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-history-of-modern-american-numismatics.371185/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-history-of-modern-american-numismatics.371185/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-history-of-modern-american-numismatics.371185/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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