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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bzcollektor, post: 193688, member: 3241&quot;]I would absolutly reccomend as a good starter &quot;A Guide Book of United States Paper Money&quot; . It is a Whitman &quot;Redbook&quot; of US currency compiled by the Friedbergs. As you may or may not know, US currency is now universally designated by the Friedberg numbering system (such as a $100 FRBN Series 1929 from Kansas City is numbered as F1890-J, or a $1 Silver Certificate Series 1935H is numbered as F1618.&nbsp; In other words a book by the Friedbergs is as good as gold. This book covers both large and small size currency.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; You cannot afford not to have this book as a basic reference, if you collect US Paper Money.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Other books by Oakes and Schwartz contain populations of notes known to exist, along with low and high serial numbers known to exist for rarer notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought on eBay a couple of years ago (for a couple dollars) 2 books by Neil Shafer from 1967 -1968 that list the dates by series that the notes were actually issued, and the block letters by series by start and ending blocks. The Shafer books from the 60`s reference &quot;Donlon Numbers&quot; .&nbsp; William P Donlon&nbsp; had a yearly series of books on Small size currency in the 60`s and early 70`s known as the &quot;Donlon Catalogue of Small Size Currency&quot;.&nbsp; The Donlon numbers are now obsolete. The Friedberg numbers are now universally known.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; These older books contain a wealth of information, and if you can find them for a couple dollars,( and it doesn`t matter that they may reference other obsolete catalogue numbers) I would buy them as I find them, whether on eBay or your local coin show, or your local flea market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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