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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 133510, member: 112"]While there were only 500 copies of the book ever published, it is not nearly as hard to find as the numbers might suggest. If you watch ebay you will find a copy comes up for sale often enough. A particular seller, Ponterio, bought quite a few copies of the book new and they offer one for sale every so often. Price will vary from $75 - $90.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that may seem expensive, I assure you it is not. I own almost all other reference works on the subject of Spanish colonial coinage and all of them combined don't hold a candle to this book. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you have an interest in the older Spanish colonial cob coins, there is another book that is essential - <i>Cobbs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins</i> by Sewall Menzel. What Gilboy is for the milled coinage - Menzel is for the cobb series. And since his book was only published last year, I think, it is much easier to find - though more expensive if I remember right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 133510, member: 112"]While there were only 500 copies of the book ever published, it is not nearly as hard to find as the numbers might suggest. If you watch ebay you will find a copy comes up for sale often enough. A particular seller, Ponterio, bought quite a few copies of the book new and they offer one for sale every so often. Price will vary from $75 - $90. Now that may seem expensive, I assure you it is not. I own almost all other reference works on the subject of Spanish colonial coinage and all of them combined don't hold a candle to this book. If you have an interest in the older Spanish colonial cob coins, there is another book that is essential - [I]Cobbs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins[/I] by Sewall Menzel. What Gilboy is for the milled coinage - Menzel is for the cobb series. And since his book was only published last year, I think, it is much easier to find - though more expensive if I remember right.[/QUOTE]
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