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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 987848, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Whitman opens a new frontier with this presentation format: a book in a slipcase. </b> </p><p><br /></p><p>BOOK REVIEW: <i>Gold: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Sell Today</i> by Jeff Garrett and Q. David Bowers (Forward by Kenneth Bressett), 120 pages, $12.95. </p><p><br /></p><p>Realize that the page count is understated because the book includes ten pockets with tipped in ephemera.&nbsp; Amon the additional items is a facsimile of Executive Order 6102, a handbill to be placed in Post Offices.&nbsp; Overall, the book is rich with summaries, extracts, and arrays of numbers and other facts.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This forum is necessarily for people who already know their economics, nominally of the free market school of Ludwig von Mises and Ayn Rand.&nbsp; The knowledgeable reader will find the occasional error.&nbsp; We might think of them as the mere “bagmarks” left on our minds by our governmental or religionist educational systems.&nbsp;&nbsp; Do not let that dull the luster here.&nbsp; This book has gripping illustrations, crisp prose and a rare delivery.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The ten pockets of tipped-in ephemera are:</p><p>• A Commentary on Gold by Q. David Bowers from Untted States Gold Coins: An Illustrated History</p><p>• Melt Value of Gold Jewelry and Scrap per Pennyweight &amp; Weight Conversion for Gold: Grams to Pennyweight (2 cards)</p><p>• Bullion Weights of Common World Gold Coins &amp; Bullion Values of Common U.S. Gold Coins (2 cards)</p><p>• “Media Gives Gold a Bad Name” by David L. Ganz from Numismatic News, December 22, 2009 </p><p>• Recommended Reading (a bibliography covering U.S. issues, including subsidiary and minor coinage)</p><p>• Executive Order 6102, (version to be displayed at all U.S. Post Offices)</p><p>• Weights and Tolerances for United States Gold Coins &amp; Diameters of United Sates Gold Coins (as a chart and graph) (2 cards)</p><p>• Four Postcards showing Whitman titles “Early U.S. Gold Coin Varieties” by Dannreuther and Bass, “Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins” by Garrett &amp; Guth, “100 Greatest U.S. Coins” by Garrett, and “Striking Change” by Michael F. Moran.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p>• Some Frequently Used Gold Terms (California fractional gold, electrum, etc)</p><p>• Addresses of World Mints, Central Banks, and Agencies</p><p><br /></p><p>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”. </p><p><br /></p><p>Under each chapter title is only the entrance to a goldmine of associated material.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; After all, when buying coins, grade can be more important than bullion value. </p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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