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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1754627, member: 112"]Typically old pamphlets & periodicals like that have little monetary value. You can often find them at coin shows being offered anywhere from $10 to $30, depending on who is selling them. Most people that buy them do so because they think they are cool, a piece of history and they will gladly pay the price. While others have no interest in such things and wouldn't give you $2 for one. That item and others like it would contain no information of any consequence really as it's nothing more than a price guide from the '40s. But there are other pamphlets and periodicals like those published by the ANA (The Numismatist) or the ANS (Numismatic Monologues) that do sometimes contain historical information that you cannot find elsewhere. Information on things like the minting process of the day, little known coins from other countries, etc. So some can be valuable (and I don't mean monetarily valuable) purely because of the knowledge they contain. But not all of them do. And the only way to find out which do and which do not is to spend a great of time searching through old bibliographies in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. But most are reluctant to do that so these items lay around on the shelf of some collector or book dealer doing little more than gathering dust or being bought and sold as curiosities.[/QUOTE]