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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 933738, member: 15199&quot;]Like most variety collectors, I have almost every book I know about on small cents, and many on buffalo five centers, and I usually try to get the most recent figuring the older published books are outdated. But when this book I am currently reading was mentioned in a prior thread, I found one from one of Amazon&#039;s resellers, and it was inexpensive and new. It is Hancock&#039;s and Spanbauer&#039;s Standard Catalog of United States Altered and Counterfeit Coins ( 1979) 220 pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t have the high definition photos of most newer books ( most are line drawing types), but it covers a wider range of deceitful coins and their origins. It also provides much info on practices before I began to really collect this area. I don&#039;t want to cover too much, but I found the table of weights and specific gravities of coins very useful. Quite a bit about modern and ancient castings, and modern EDM ( electrical discharge manufacturing ) making of dies. The photo of the 1955/55 DDO fake that the maker had the 2nd strike in the wrong direction&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> or Henning&#039;s 1944 Jeffersons where the P was left off.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know that in 1968 one dealer sold 95,000 fake 1909-SVDB coins that could pass eye inspection. Anyway, it is an enjoyable read, I can pass over the part where ANA and ANAC are mentioned as the only safe way to check your coin as PCGS, NGC, etc. were not yet players as I recall.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you don&#039;t find way to buy it, ask your college or county library if they participate in Interlibrary loan where they can borrow it from another library for you to read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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