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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5360319, member: 101855"]“Judd” is a reference book on United States pattern (experimental) coins that was first published in the late 1950s. Somewhat like the Red Book, there were something like eight or nine editions of it that were published through the years. The author was Hewitt Judd. It has since been replaced and updated by other references. I think that Whitman is now publishing the most recent one.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to go back in history, the first definitive reference on pattern coins was by Adams and Woodin. William Woodin was Franklin Roosevelt’s first choice for Secretary of the Treasury.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was all off the top of my head, so please correct or clarify what I wrote here. I have the reference books, but I don’t collect patterns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5360319, member: 101855"]“Judd” is a reference book on United States pattern (experimental) coins that was first published in the late 1950s. Somewhat like the Red Book, there were something like eight or nine editions of it that were published through the years. The author was Hewitt Judd. It has since been replaced and updated by other references. I think that Whitman is now publishing the most recent one. If you want to go back in history, the first definitive reference on pattern coins was by Adams and Woodin. William Woodin was Franklin Roosevelt’s first choice for Secretary of the Treasury. This was all off the top of my head, so please correct or clarify what I wrote here. I have the reference books, but I don’t collect patterns.[/QUOTE]
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