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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5172416, member: 110350&quot;]I very much agree.&nbsp; (Pardon my ignorance, but was Victor England the original owner of CNG? Obviously I&#039;m familiar with Berk and have been for many years.)&nbsp; As for the C-S book, Amazon cancelled my order -- presumably someone else got there first! -- but I ordered it for $12 including sales tax and shipping through Abebooks, from a bookstore in Cooperstown, NY.&nbsp; It may not arrive for a few weeks, but I&#039;m looking forward to it.&nbsp; I enjoy reading about coins almost as much as having them. (As long as there are illustrations, I don&#039;t even mind that much if they&#039;re in black and white. I don&#039;t even mind the drawings in Emmett; I only wish that they were more comprehensive.) </p><p><br /></p><p>The very first coin book I owned was the 1965 4th edition of Ken Bressett&#039;s <i>Guide Book of English Coins</i>, which my father bought for me in a shop in the Bahamas called &quot;Coin of the Realm&quot; when I was a young child and we were there on vacation; I had expressed fascination with the circulating English coinage. That vacation, and that book, inspired me to begin collecting British coins, a pastime that I pursued actively for almost the next 50 years. I may have sold the majority of the coins, but I still have all my books. Including the first one; I leafed through it just now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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