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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 2866714, member: 57463"]ANA members have access to all 125 years of The Numismatist online and searchable. FireFighterRyan3 says that he likes "coins you don't see any more."  Of course, we do see them... at coin shows.  But the point is taken, and if you like to pursue what we call the "classic American coins" of the 19th and 20th centuries, The Numismatist is a wealth of arcane information.  I cannot stress that enough.  People pursue coins but never understand truly why one is worth more than another, just accepting the current market as the only measure of value.  But those markets came into being because of articles in The Numismatist (and other periodicals). And there are more facts inside those pages than can be condensed in a Red Book (nice as the Red Book is, especially the new DeLuxe and Professional Editions).  And there is a lot more to American numismatics than the circulating issues of the federal mints. And there is more to numismatics than our brief 300-year history. If you like the classical look of classical American coins, you will appreciate their original models, the coins of Ancient Rome and Greece.[/QUOTE]