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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1905275, member: 26302&quot;]True story. My first &quot;good&quot; coin book I bought was WB on SL halves. Paid $85 for it 20+ years ago. I got it, read completely through it, and basically memorized it. In the next 6 months I went to every coin show I could, and I picked up 6 major double dies the book listed but no one else knew about. Its the &quot;7 finger&quot; 1858. Just remembering that ONE doubled die from the book paid for itself many times over. Another story, I was just perusing a Roman coin book once, not for any particular reason, just pleasure. A month later I saw an auction of &quot;junk&quot; byzantine coins and something caught my eye. There was an Ostrogothic bronze in this lot, and I only recognized it because of that book. I got the lot of 40 coins for $45, and the Ostrogoth alone is hundreds of dollars. </p><p><br /></p><p>These are just a couple of examples I remember, but even they are not important. How much is your enjoyment in this hobby worth to you? Don&#039;t you realize that books allow you to have more enjoyment for coins you ALREADY OWN? I can own a bronze of Augustus, ok its kind of cool. Now, I open up a book and read that this is a sestertius of Augustus, a bronze denomination he invented. He invented it, but didn&#039;t make very many different types. Not only that, but this is a much scarcer type than normal. That same coin just became MUCH more interesting to me, and my enjoyment per dollar spent on the coin just went up tremendously. Therefor, for every dollar I spend on coins I now get much more &quot;coin happiness&quot;. Make sense?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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