Garrett/Bowers Book "Gold: ... How to Buy and Sell Today"

Whitman opens a new frontier with this presentation format: a book in a slipcase.

BOOK REVIEW: Gold: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Sell Today by Jeff Garrett and Q. David Bowers (Forward by Kenneth Bressett), 120 pages, $12.95.

Realize that the page count is understated because the book includes ten pockets with tipped in ephemera. Amon the additional items is a facsimile of Executive Order 6102, a handbill to be placed in Post Offices. Overall, the book is rich with summaries, extracts, and arrays of numbers and other facts.

This forum is necessarily for people who already know their economics, nominally of the free market school of Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand. The knowledgeable reader will find the occasional error. We might think of them as the mere “bagmarks” left on our minds by our governmental or religionist educational systems. Do not let that dull the luster here. This book has gripping illustrations, crisp prose and a rare delivery.

The ten pockets of tipped-in ephemera are:
• A Commentary on Gold by Q. David Bowers from Untted States Gold Coins: An Illustrated History
• Melt Value of Gold Jewelry and Scrap per Pennyweight & Weight Conversion for Gold: Grams to Pennyweight (2 cards)
• Bullion Weights of Common World Gold Coins & Bullion Values of Common U.S. Gold Coins (2 cards)
• “Media Gives Gold a Bad Name” by David L. Ganz from Numismatic News, December 22, 2009
• Recommended Reading (a bibliography covering U.S. issues, including subsidiary and minor coinage)
• Executive Order 6102, (version to be displayed at all U.S. Post Offices)
• Weights and Tolerances for United States Gold Coins & Diameters of United Sates Gold Coins (as a chart and graph) (2 cards)
• Four Postcards showing Whitman titles “Early U.S. Gold Coin Varieties” by Dannreuther and Bass, “Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins” by Garrett & Guth, “100 Greatest U.S. Coins” by Garrett, and “Striking Change” by Michael F. Moran.
• Some Frequently Used Gold Terms (California fractional gold, electrum, etc)
• Addresses of World Mints, Central Banks, and Agencies

The chapter titles are: “Gold: What is it and Why is it so valuable?”; “The Recent Gold Boom”; “Selling Your Gold”; “Buying Gold”; “Deal With the Experts”; “Avoiding Counterfeit and Altered Gold Coins”; “Quick Answers to Frequently Asked Questions”; “Glossary of Gold-Related Terms”; and “More Resources”.

Under each chapter title is only the entrance to a goldmine of associated material. For instance under “Buying Gold,” (the longest chapter, running 32 pages) in addition to the Ganz essay, the Bibliography, and Executive Order 6102, is a case study on grading Liberty Head Half Eagles. After all, when buying coins, grade can be more important than bullion value.

While the emphasis throughout is on nominally common bullion coins, the lavish illustrations include the gold of Lydia, Syracuse, Carthage, and England, as well as Barber’s “Amazonian” $20 of 1872 and the U.S. Assay Commission Medal of 1918.

 

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Wow! I'll take that out when my library gets it! Pretty cool sounding book! Thanks for letting us know.

 

Well, your library may never carry it. Librarians ohly buy books recommended by library magazines. There are pros and cons on that, but that's how it works. Generally speaking most public libraries are completely deficient in coin books. They might have strong sections on paper dolls, but only one price guide for (American) coins.

At $12.95, the book is a steal, as many new Whitman titles are. It is amazing what you can get for $20 in terms of page count and quality production and by reputable authors. Whitman leads the pack now.

 

Yes, i like this thread specially that Under each chapter title is only the entrance to a goldmine of associated material. For instance under “Buying Gold,” (the longest chapter, running 32 pages) in addition to the Ganz essay, the Bibliography, and Executive Order 6102, is a case study on grading Liberty Head Half Eagles. After all, when buying coins, grade can be more important than bullion value.
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sarah james
Ramsdens Gold For Cash

 

Garrett/Bowers Book is very nice article and i read it and very easy to learn about things which made in scientific.
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sussan frank
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