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<p>[QUOTE="KEN POTTER, post: 4088055, member: 87885"]If you had looked a little further than the pictures you would have noticed that there was a disclaimer in the book on the 1996 Wide AM alteration (the only entry in the book that need one). By the time the book went into the second printing (for the same edition) it was removed and stayed removed in all printings for all editions thereafter. It is a very wise decision to add something into a book with a disclaimer in the event that it was genuine. </p><p><br /></p><p>You may have also noticed that I was the one that first debunked the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the title of our book, if you ever write one yourself and have it published by a large publisher like Krause or Whitman, you'll learn that the authors often have little say in what the title is (as is also the case in choosing a title to an article in larger publications - that's Journalism 101). </p><p><br /></p><p>Publishers invest a lot of money into publishing a book so they pick titles that they feel will sell the book best. Our title (as the book was delivered to Krause) was "Treasures In Your Pocket Change". They changed it to "Strike It Rich With Pocket Change" without asking, feeling it would catch the eye of potential buyers better than our own title. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hated the title they chose for several years but in retrospect I think they were right. After all, anybody with a half a brain knows most folks will never actually "strike it rich". But we have had two folks so far find coins in the $15,000+ range within weeks of buying the book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="KEN POTTER, post: 4088055, member: 87885"]If you had looked a little further than the pictures you would have noticed that there was a disclaimer in the book on the 1996 Wide AM alteration (the only entry in the book that need one). By the time the book went into the second printing (for the same edition) it was removed and stayed removed in all printings for all editions thereafter. It is a very wise decision to add something into a book with a disclaimer in the event that it was genuine. You may have also noticed that I was the one that first debunked the coin. As for the title of our book, if you ever write one yourself and have it published by a large publisher like Krause or Whitman, you'll learn that the authors often have little say in what the title is (as is also the case in choosing a title to an article in larger publications - that's Journalism 101). Publishers invest a lot of money into publishing a book so they pick titles that they feel will sell the book best. Our title (as the book was delivered to Krause) was "Treasures In Your Pocket Change". They changed it to "Strike It Rich With Pocket Change" without asking, feeling it would catch the eye of potential buyers better than our own title. I hated the title they chose for several years but in retrospect I think they were right. After all, anybody with a half a brain knows most folks will never actually "strike it rich". But we have had two folks so far find coins in the $15,000+ range within weeks of buying the book.[/QUOTE]
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