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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 928710, member: 66&quot;]Both of those are the same book.&nbsp; The first is a recent digital format version of the second.&nbsp; The layout is good, but the actual variety description text is the same and the images are taken directly from the book.&nbsp; (A shortcoming in my opinion as much better images are available today of most of the tokens.)&nbsp; The digital version has incorporated the addendum pieces into the text of the book where they belong, but for some reason it does not include all of the new discoveries that have been made since the original 1910-15 book came out.&nbsp; These new discoveries ARE listed in the 1990, 1996, and 2004 reprints of the book.)&nbsp; I have&#039;t checked but I suspect tha some of the other errors in the original book have not been corrected either.&nbsp; One thing that has been improved is the rarities have been updated, although that has not resulted in a lot of changes.&nbsp; Dalton and Hamer did a very good job estimating the rarities.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want a printed copy of the book though you should probably get it soon.&nbsp; The book is out of print, not easy to find, and the person who has done the reprinting in the past is not going to make any further reprints.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only other real books that cover the series in any depth are the books by R C Bell.&nbsp; This is a series of I believe five books that divides the series up into different groups, commercial coins, private tokens, medal pieces and a couple of others.&nbsp; These books are also becoming hard to get and will cost $100 to $125 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another book I would recommend doesn&#039;t really deal with the specifics of the tokens but examines the economy around and the forces that lead to the creation of private coinage in England during the 1650 to 1820 period.&nbsp; Good Money by George Selgin.&nbsp; Written by an economist but it is NOT dry reading.&nbsp; Very interesting and entertaining.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another book I highly recommend deals with the man who created many of the tokens and whose application of steam power to coinage and the mint that made it possible is The Soho Mint and the Industrialization of Money&nbsp; by Richard Doty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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