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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2864409, member: 19463&quot;]Times have changed in publishing.&nbsp; A few years ago you had to decide how many catalogs you needed to expose potential buyers to the coins for sale knowing full well that you did not get bids from people who did not get catalogs.&nbsp; Now, many bids will come from people who never touch paper but bid online.&nbsp; They print catalogs for old collectors who still want them but I suspect many books get filed away to keep them in good shape for resale.&nbsp; You can tell a lot more about the coin from the online photos.&nbsp; The cost of taking the images is much lower now since they had to shoot the coins for the online version anyway.&nbsp; Print on demand publishing allows runs of fewer copies than we did previously.&nbsp; I do suspect that fifty years from now it will be easier to find copies of catalogs from the 1990&#039;s than from 2017.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In January I bought two lots from the AK collection having seen the coins online.&nbsp; I was surprised to win them.&nbsp; CNG may have been shocked since they cost about as much as my total spent with them in 20 years.&nbsp; I asked if I could get a copy of the AK &#039;add on&#039; catalog but they said they had given them all out.&nbsp; I wonder how many they print these days.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as getting the catalogs:&nbsp; Keep them and enjoy them.&nbsp; Give them to someone or sell them if they bore you.&nbsp; Between 1997 and 2003 a combination of my purchases and my being known from my website (a bigger deal then when there was little online compared to now) produced a lot of nice catalogs in my mailbox.&nbsp; When I retired to fixed income poverty and cut waaaay back on buying AND stopped updating the site, catalogs tapered off at various rates.&nbsp; For the record, the last to give up on me was Stacks. CNG was one of the first to go.&nbsp; By the time I started buying coins again, everything was digital.&nbsp; I see old catalogs going for $3-10 for ordinary ones and huge sums for some really special ones.&nbsp; Which will appreciate faster:&nbsp; the latest CNG catalog or the coins in it?&nbsp; $1000 might buy a hundred nice glossy catalogs that would take about 8 feet of shelf space.&nbsp; The information in them would probably do you more good than a set of all the Sear/Seaby/Sayles books (whatever adds up to the same price).&nbsp; Enjoy the catalogs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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