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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 799, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I bought ABE KOSOFF REMEMBERS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kosoff was a coin dealer in the 1940s-1980s.&nbsp; He carried some important auctions and was well known to everyone in his time.&nbsp; The book is a collection of his columns from Coin World newspaper.&nbsp; It is a standard refernce of sorts.&nbsp; I found it in a local coin store a couple of weeks ago priced at $29.50 -- way over priced at $29.50.&nbsp; &quot;Do you still need $29.50?&quot; I asked.&nbsp; The dealer looked at the book &quot;Fifteen,&quot; he said and then said &quot;Ten.&quot;&nbsp; Maybe I should have waited for Five, but I said yes to the impromptu Dutch Auction.&nbsp; Ten was all right.&nbsp; The book was in good condition, a fold on the cover, but the spine showing no serious use, mostly a lot of flipping.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To be sure I could use it, I opened to one article and found Kosoff&#039;s story of his &quot;Paquet Twenty Dollar.&quot;&nbsp; It was a coin I knew, though I did not know his part in it.&nbsp; Checking the index, I found other references to the coin in other articles, so I bought the book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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