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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 815735, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Well, you get what you pay for but an old Krause Cat.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Well, you get what you pay for but an old Krause Cat. would be a good cheap overview of the coins side of it, no paper in it though.</p><p>It really depends what you are wanting to know and how far you want to get into it.&nbsp; The internet can answer most of your questions and look up just about anything but let me leave you with one little piece of advice.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No one, and I mean no one has ever complained about having to many reference books or what they had to pay for them if they used them well.</p><p>I have books that costs $250, $100, $35, and under $20, I have dozens of auction catologs that normally retail for $50 or more, many you can get (at least once) by just sending in a request.&nbsp; The DEAN of Numismatics Mr. Bowers has wrote extensivly about the value of books.&nbsp; In fact books (for me) are not the best written material regarding coins that you can obtain but subscribing to Coin World, Numismatic News each week is.&nbsp; It&#039;s there every week and with several years of weekly reading gets you familar with everthing, pricing, rarities, who, what, when - it&#039;s the very best IMO.</p><p>But who konws what you want to gleam out of all this, at little, enough to get by, or a life chainging hobby - it&#039;s up to you!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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