Numismatic literature: How many coin books and numismatic magazine subscriptions?

Just curious, does everyone here purchase numismatic literature as much as I do (including auction catalogs). How many do you have and what type. Include red books, etc as well. It all counts. My latest count is 34 books and 4 magazine subscriptions.
furthermore, how much emphasis do you place on having these as part of your numismatic experience? Share your experience.

Books.: 34

1. Auction catalogs: 7
2. Red books: 11
3. Specific series /type books: 5
4. General numismatic interest: 3
5. Foreign: 4
6 Token specific: 4

subscriptions: 4
1. Coin World
2. Worldwide Coins
3. World Coin News.
4. Numismatic News.

 

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I have
5 or so Red books
3 (soon to be 8) Krause publications on the 'Standard catalog' books for both coins and currency.

1 magazine subs (soon to be 2)
Numismatic news
and hopefully soon the banknote reporter

 

(2nd post)
Oh, going out on a limb here I guess.

Two subscriptions magazines : Monthly, COINage; Quarterly, John Reich Collectors Society, JRCS
Numismatic Books -- 30-50

Take Care
Ben

 

I'm a bit of a book person, so anytime I find a book on coins or the Mint or gold, I buy it. Have over 60 books, some many years out of print and on the verge of rare. magazines...I like Coins and Coin World. They make for entertaining reading at work.
Guy~

 

I have the following....

46 Red Books
22 Blue Books
The Experts Guide-Collecting & Investing in Rare Coins
CherryPickers Guide 4th Edition Vol.2
ANA Grading Standards for United States Coins
Photograde
A Guide Book "Red Book" of Lincoln Cents
A Guide Book of Morgan Dollars
Encyclopedia of U.S. Gold Coins
The United States Half Dimes by D.W. Valentine

Subscriptions...

Coin World
ANA magazine "The Numismatist"...if you count that as a subscription.

Thats about it.

 

I have about a dozen coin books.

3 subscriptions
CoinWorld
Numismatic News
Coin Values

I'm going to drop Numismatic News because it largely duplicates the content of CoinWorld. (Please, down't throw any vegetables, if I've dissed someone's favorite publication).

 

few dozen books
several old catologs

subs: CW,NN,CDN

 

I have hundreds of Coin Mag's....old ANA, CoinWorld, NN, etc...
The number of Auction Catalogs is getting bigger and bigger all the time...
And books---that is growing too....I would guess that I have 60+ books....and whenever I can I get the books signed as well.

Speedy

 

I have been meaning to organize my numismatic books but I have not quite gotten to that point yet. I have scores of books, probably somewhere between 100 and 200. Most are packed away in boxes. Many of these I bought at ANA book sales and have never gotten around to reading. (I'm a sucker for cheap books, especially a box of books for $5.)

I subscribe to:

Coin World
Numismatist
Coin Dealer Newsletter
The Commemorative Trail (Society for US Commemorative Coins)
Bo Tales (Original Hobo Nickel Society)

 

none...

 

Redbooks: About 8
Grading books: 3
Other coin books: 1
Auction Catalogues: Probably 2 dozen
Subscriptions: 3
Numismatic News
Coinworld
CoinValues

 

Subscription:
CONECA

 

subcriction to coin world, ana.
5 red books, 4 ana grading guides 2nd,3rd,4th,6th editions, 100 greatest coins 2nd ed., walter brens complete encyclopedia of us and colonial coins (got that one for less than $50 in new condition), the list goes on and on. probably 30 or so more books, some of them quite expensive too.

 

Better get that fixed.
You know the old saying--buy the book before you buy the coin.

Speedy

 

Red Books (upstairs) about 200+ (downstairs) who knows, but much more
Blue Books about 70 pieces
Breen's Encyclopedia
Breen's book on Proofs.

CherryPickers Guide all three editions.

ANA Grading Standards for United States Coins
Photograde
A Guide Book of Morgan Dollars
Plus at least 40 or fifty others.
B. Max Mehl's Encyclopedia #25
Mehl's: The Star Rare Coin book #22
Wayte Raymond: about 20+

Subscriptions:
Coin World
The ANA magazine "The Numismatist. If and when I ever get a copy!
Numismatic News-- if I ever remember to mail the check.

 

Quick, get the paddles...................
clear!

Oh, be still my heart!

Oh, never mind, ignorance is bliss.

 

Merchant token books by state - 56 books
Specific token types, indexed by state (Ingle, Hickey Bros, coal, lumber, Masonic, amusement, etc) - 28 books
Other specific topic token books (Bryan money, hobo nickels, counters, military, prison, war, hard rubber, etc.) - 44 books
Transportation related token books - 10 books
Copperhead Courrier and Civil War Token Journals - all past issues rebound in 6 large volumes
Civil War, Indian & Post Trader, Hard Times era token references - 27 books
General Numismatic (numismatic dictionaries, intros, etc.) - 4 books
U.S. issue related (Patterns, counterstamps, Mint medals, forgery, etc) - 19 books
TAMS Journals - 82
Currency (U.S., world, stocks and bonds) - 10 books
Ancients - 3 books
Foreign Tokens (Latin America, German, Japanese, Papal) - 8 books
Auction catalogs - 20
Listing of over 60,000 maverick token identifications - 1 CD
Grading - 3 books
Redbook - 1 book

Not numismatic books, but
Historical type books related to specific tokens - 21 books
(In the book Bridges At The Foot Of The Rapids, by Gary L. Franks, PE, I hooked Gary up with the image of the Maumee and Perrysburg Toll Bridge Company Civil War token that he placed on page 40.)
Historical reference books, Civil War era - 7 books

My library is far from complete, but some needed titles are very hard to locate. A couple of my books had numbered printings of 100 or less. Many others have been out of print for many years, with no recent works published. My oldest exonumia reference was printed in 1861.
I give away any older editions of references as I acquire newer ones.

 

I have a complete collection of the Red Book. I do not get any magazines, newsletters, etc on coins, guns, knives or anything that would indicate what is in my house. Where I live anything sticking out of a mail box with such titles is asking for a home invasion or just plain old robbery. And then too the mail delivery people change faster than at Walmart of McDonalds so my mail person today may well be in jail tomorrow. Any coin, gun, computer, etc magazines I purchase at shows or not at all. If those companies would put thier magazines, books, etc in a plain rapper I would probably have a mountain of them also.

 

Not sure but probably 15 or so coin and currency books scattered around as well as copies of Numismatic News, Coin Prices and Banknote Reporter.

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