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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24660553, member: 26430&quot;]Yes, definitely get the 6th if you only get one. It&#039;s new, so I haven&#039;t seen many used copies of the 6th edition yet. Anything substantially below the list price is probably a good deal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I procrastinated and missed the signed copies (first 100) from ANS, but he signs a lot of his books, so it&#039;s worth keeping an eye out. (They usually don&#039;t cost much more. I&#039;ve bought 2 or 3 others signed/inscribed by him.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers/auctions now usually cite the new 6th ed. The later eds. have tables showing how older numbers correspond, so you can usually understand older references. (Sometimes dealers even specify GBC6, GBC5 etc., occasionally even giving both.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I still keep an eye out for the older ones (trying to get signed copies of 1st &amp; 3rd), since he switches &quot;plate coins&quot; from edition to edition. (I believe the 1976 &quot;first edition&quot; was called <i>Guide to Ancient Jewish Coins</i> &amp; the name changed w/ the 1987 2nd ed.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;plate coins&quot; are often from his collection, many of which he has auctioned. That&#039;s how I got this one, illustrated in the 2nd edition (160a). He consigned it to Goldberg in 2003, I think. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10889373" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10889373" rel="nofollow">I got it at CNG in May</a>:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hendin-160a-triptych-nys-jpg.1562915/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/hendin-gbc2-160a-square-jpg.1562917/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure yet if it&#039;s in the 3rd or 1st editions (I plan to get copies).</p><p>But I was sure glad to have the &quot;obsolete&quot; copy when I saw this coin at auction![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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