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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 1839271, member: 41863&quot;]I understand what you are saying, and honestly a big reason why I bought the book was because I was looking for the informational side of building a Type set and figured this book would be useful. I &#039;assumed&#039; it would be a break down of every US type coin, which it is, but I also figured with it being written by the leading numismatist of today that it would also guide you on how to build a nice type set, on that note I was very wrong, which is why i draw the parallel to the RedBook, very little extra information contained within, but a good overall idea of what to expect from US Type coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The type book to me, and keep in mind this is just my personal opinion, was simply written to make money. It wasnt creative or overly informative, and it seriously looks like someone just went and buffed up the content of the Red Book with some additional minor commentary, it just lacked &#039;heart&#039; or &#039;meat&#039; if you know what i mean. I also understand Bowers&#039; perspective with the book writing, thats a very lucrative money maker and if the idea sounds good it will likely make him some money by publishing a book. I guess I just didnt see where the effort needed to be spent on this one when it didnt really provide any new information in any better of a format than how it has already been presented.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ill put it to you this way, I still reach for my RedBook when buying coins for my type set, i can access better information for what i need, like mintage numbers and prices relative to each other within a given series or grade scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Out of curiosity though, what other books in the series do you own? Are the individual coin books any better? I want information about the history of each coin, which years produced better strikes, what are some of the major variations to be on the lookout for, known double dies, etc. Thats what these books are lacking to me, and what I figured he wouldve been adding in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Guess I need to work on publishing a comprehensive guide/encyclopedia on coins myself. Anyone wanna join me? It will be a combination of the RedBook, Snows attribution guide, the Cherrypickers Guide, the VAM book, and Breens Encyclopedia, with a few ideas sprinkled in from Bowers. It would be massive, but it would have the BEST information contained within and would help the coin community out immensely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagine being able to buy a current, complete, attribution guide and reference book that actually tells you what to look for along the way within each series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Better than any Krause manual, better than a whole library of Bowers&#039; books, better than a RedBook, and current to where the price isnt more than $80-$100 in a solid bound book that will last a few years and some heavy reading/studying. Thats what i want![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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