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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4542525, member: 101855"]I have collected these books for the pricing information they contain, and to see how collectors of generations ago viewed some of the coins. I don't care about the special editions with fancy covers or the error books. One year I got stuck with one of those that had some pages duplicated and other pages missing. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were some errors in the early editions that cause confusion, such as the real size of the "small 5" in the 1805 small 5 half cent with stems.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also some interesting commentaries about the role of gold in our economy. When the price was pegged, artificially high at one time, at $35.00 an ounce, it was supposed to bring stablity to our monetary system, even though it was illegal for Americans to own most forms of it. It was time when monetary policy seemed to be much simpler.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 4542525, member: 101855"]I have collected these books for the pricing information they contain, and to see how collectors of generations ago viewed some of the coins. I don't care about the special editions with fancy covers or the error books. One year I got stuck with one of those that had some pages duplicated and other pages missing. There were some errors in the early editions that cause confusion, such as the real size of the "small 5" in the 1805 small 5 half cent with stems. There are also some interesting commentaries about the role of gold in our economy. When the price was pegged, artificially high at one time, at $35.00 an ounce, it was supposed to bring stablity to our monetary system, even though it was illegal for Americans to own most forms of it. It was time when monetary policy seemed to be much simpler.[/QUOTE]
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