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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3297403, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><i>A Guide Book of The United States Mint: Colonial, State, Private, Territorial, and Federal Coining Facilities</i>by Q. David Bowers; Foreword by Ken Bressett; Whitman Publishing, 2016. 436 pages. $24.95. Reviewed by Michael E. Marotta (MSNS 7935)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH]872908[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Told in Dave Bowers’ inimitable conversational style, replete with stories of both famous and obscure people, this book will give the passionate pursuer of historical American coinage many hours of pleasurable, rewarding reading. Those cold metal objects will acquire new meaning as you explore their creation, production, and passing.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">It has been 50 years since the publication of Don Taxay’s landmark research, <i>The U.S. Mint and Coinage: An Illustrated History From 1776 to the Present</i>. The new Bowers history will be our standard for the next fifty, at least, and perhaps into the 22ndcentury. </font></p><p>[ATTACH]872909[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH]872910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to know the history of US federal coins, then you need one of the references on patterns.&nbsp; The book by Andrew Pollock is perhaps the one best liked by aficianados of patterns.&nbsp; These are the coins that never were, but which, in fact, are the first models of the coins we know. The Pollack book is more expensive. The more recent and more affordable Bowers book is an update of a classic by Hewitt Judd.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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