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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 52787, member: 57463&quot;]You said &quot;almost&quot; so let me amplify that.&nbsp; Some are better than others, of course. Sometimes that is an objective view, sometimes personal opinion.&nbsp; Some books just &quot;work&quot; better than others.&nbsp; Still, there are a few dogs out there.&nbsp; When I worked for Coin World, there was one book in the library written by an Amos Press author (publishers of Coin World).&nbsp; He wrote two other books. They apparently were passable.&nbsp; This one, however, had a note from the editor written in the front saying never to use this book because it is unreliable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Whitman people who published the book own the trademark The Official Red Book.&nbsp; It has nothing to do with QDB.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; QDB is now American Numismatic Rarities.&nbsp; &quot;Bowers and Merena&quot; has nothing to do with him any more.&nbsp; There was a buy-out and a restructuring by Collector&#039;s Universe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree.&nbsp; I have made a few corrections to my Breens, but over all, there are few books that come close.&nbsp; We take Breen for granted today, but he created the truly academic, scientific investigation of US Numismatics at a time when it was still a gentleman&#039;s hobby verging on a Tulip Craze. Even today, few people put the book to its best use.&nbsp; Most people read the narratives and never catalog or attribute their own coins against it.&nbsp; The narratives are important, of course, for establishing the sequence of events in US Mint history.&nbsp; Breen worked with Taxay when both men were writing their respective books.&nbsp; (Taxay&#039;s U. S. Mint and Coinage is another reference that everyone needs.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I also like the DLRC books by Kevin Flynn, and others.&nbsp; DLRC Press has the Complete Guide to... (Mercury Dimes, Seated This, Seated That).&nbsp; These are highly authorative references for the speciality collector of these type series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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