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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 494875, member: 57463&quot;]Whitman Publishing’s continued production of high-quality, low-cost numismatic references may be unprecedented.&nbsp; The extent of titles eclipses even the venerable inventory from Krause.&nbsp; Subjects and treatments range the compass from the choppy shallows skiffed by casual collectors to the unfathomable trenches explored by loupe wielding specialists – from traditional Americana to untraditional Americana to alien times and places.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><i>Coins: Questions &amp; Answers</i> by Clifford Mishler, 5th Edition, 2008, 345 pages. $9.95.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Deceptively packaged as a little “pocketbook” about 4 x 7 inches (10.5 x 17.5 cm), this volume competes directly with Alan Herbert’s <i>Coin Clinic - 1001 Frequently Asked Questions</i>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>From general information – “What is meant by the terms numismatic and numismatist?” and “What is a ‘double eagle’?” among a hundred others– the book engages 15 of its 30 chapters on the facts that define the curriculum of American coinage.&nbsp; Other chapters reveal the truths about Continental Currency, Fractional Currency, Medals, Tokens, Canadian, Mexican, and worldwide monetary media.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Chapter 3, “Educating the Budding Collector,” lists the books – from Breen to Bowers to Willem to Winters – hundreds of them about the denominations, their errors and varieties and forgeries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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