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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 496193, member: 57463"]A Collectible in its Own Right Sorry.  Like Breen's Encyclopedia and perhaps a dozen others -- Newman's Early American Paper Money, etc. -- this is a well known work that every collector of American coinage should own.  In fact, I have a Sixth Edition from 1977 that I bought used for $17.95 before Whitman created the present series a few years ago. This edition is completely modernized with color pictures.  A key feature of these Red Book Guides is the Whitman Coin Grid.  For this book, in addition to population, prices, grades and certified examples known, the chart also includes Times at Auction and Metal, as these Patterns were often struck in several different metals in addition to their circulating medium.  (Appendix D describes all 22 of them, including Billon, Pewter, Goloid and Oroide.) For each coin, brief descriptions of the Obverse and Reverse complement a fuller "History and Overview." Appendix A lists "splashers."  These were lead trials of hubs and other partially completed steps in the diemaking process.    Appendix B is the briefest review of Mint errors.  Appendix C is a fuller examination of the pieces known to be from outside the Mint, though using Mint dies and other materials.  Appendix E lists and displays still more "curiosities" including the Amazonians and the Standard Dollar of 1870.[/QUOTE]