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<p>[QUOTE="messydesk, post: 2793963, member: 1765"]Start of by buying a Red Book (Guide Book of United States Coins). Get the spiral one if you like to lay a book on a desk and read it, the hardcover otherwise. In the back of mine, which is a 2015 edition, there is a bibliography broken down by coin type. Any of the Bowers "A Guide Book..." books are currently published by Whitman, and Bowers is often more the figurehead author than anything else. They are good overviews of their series. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, there is a search page on the library. I just did a search for "three cents" and got 21 hits. Many dealt with 3c pieces, but a few were different parts of the</p><p>Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and in the Whittemore collection. While that's no match, it does show you that you can find a LOT of different stuff there. Who knows, some of the accidental search hits might be interesting, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="messydesk, post: 2793963, member: 1765"]Start of by buying a Red Book (Guide Book of United States Coins). Get the spiral one if you like to lay a book on a desk and read it, the hardcover otherwise. In the back of mine, which is a 2015 edition, there is a bibliography broken down by coin type. Any of the Bowers "A Guide Book..." books are currently published by Whitman, and Bowers is often more the figurehead author than anything else. They are good overviews of their series. Also, there is a search page on the library. I just did a search for "three cents" and got 21 hits. Many dealt with 3c pieces, but a few were different parts of the Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and in the Whittemore collection. While that's no match, it does show you that you can find a LOT of different stuff there. Who knows, some of the accidental search hits might be interesting, too.[/QUOTE]
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