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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 2012549, member: 57463&quot;]<i>Cash in Your Coins: Selling the Rare Coins You’ve Inherited</i> 2nd Edition, by Beth Deisher, Whitman, 2014, 304 pages, $9.95.</p><p><br /></p><p>Intended for the person who knows nothing, I found it enlightening.&nbsp; I am ignorant in many areas of U.S. numismatics.&nbsp; When I worked for <i>Coin World</i> as their international editor, Bill Gibbs assigned me several tutorials in American numismatics.&nbsp; I had to produce publishable work on topics I knew nothing about, such as the pattern coins of 1792, the Paquet Double Eagles, and national currency paper money.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]362799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the core of the presentation includes information that should be in the Red Book.&nbsp; The Red Book credits the Large Cents 1796-1807 to Robert Scott.&nbsp; Deisher nods to Gilbert Stuart and John Eckstein for the obverse and Joseph Wright for the reverse.&nbsp; Deisher agrees with Breen and Taxay; argue that as you wish.&nbsp; I can recommend this book highly to anyone collecting the broad spectrum American coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the strongest feature of this book is its suggestion that the new owner start with Lincoln Cents.&nbsp; Any collection is likely to have pounds of them in jars or cans.&nbsp; Sorting them and searching them will provide a good “basic training” or “crash course” in numismatics as a collecting hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have some quibbles.&nbsp; One problem for me was the lack of important information about pricing at the opening of the narrative.&nbsp; Deisher cites the Red Book several times, never warning the reader until pages 210-211 that dealers do not pay Red Book prices.&nbsp; Finally, there in Chapter 10 she does nicely dissect the distinctions among the Red Book, Blue Book, Greysheet, and Bluesheet.&nbsp; I realize that you cannot say everything all to once on Page 1 but some forewarning could easily point to the later details.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although Deisher does cite important repunched dates for various issues, the term is never defined or explained.&nbsp; The discussion of die doubling, for example on page 48, for the famous 1955 Lincoln Cent, is cursory.&nbsp; It would not be a problem except that so many collectors are optimistic; and it is reasonable to expect that many collections are infected with misidentified “die chatter”, if not for this one example, then for many other instances.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, it is not until Chapter 8, on page 169, that Deisher alerts the ignorant inheritor and new owner of the likely presence of fakes.&nbsp; Any large accumulation can have several.</p><p><br /></p><p>That brings me back to why it is so easy to endorse this book for its substantive content.&nbsp; I failed the test on page 169.&nbsp; Clearly, I do not know what a Morgan Dollar is supposed to look like. So, for me, this book is an important addition to my library and will sit next to the Red Book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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