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Message:: [QUOTE="hontonai, post: 564439, member: 4703"]Interesting.  I didn't realize that Whitman had begun applying its self aggrandizing "Official" label to that publication. Your 14th Ed. is listed in Whitman's <a href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/default.aspx?page=80&SubCatOID=78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/default.aspx?page=80&SubCatOID=78" rel="nofollow">list of current publications</a>.   My 13th Ed. (1984) doesn't mention "Red Book" or "Official" on its cover, so I guess the book was promoted in time for the new edition. The companion work Current Coins of the World covers the period commencing in 1965.  My 8th Ed. (1988) doesn't have the "Red Book" or "Official" labels either.  That work is not on Whitman's current list, but I'm not sure if it has been permanently dropped, or is just between editions.  I suspect the latter. Yeoman retired in 1970, and died at age 84 in 1988.  These and other coin reference books which have been edited and updated by others still retain his name as author; an honor sadly not accorded to Chester L. Krause or Clifford Mishler, whose names have been dropped from the covers of the most recent Standard Catalog of World Coin editions even though those volumes are popularly referred to as "Krause".[/QUOTE]