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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cwtokenman, post: 238589, member: 2100&quot;]Hello Chuck,</p><p>&nbsp; Congratulations and welcome upon entering the interesting world of exonumia! I do not think you will find any lack of interesting tokens, no matter what your fancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If you wish to buy just one general token book, Rulau&#039;s Standard Catalog is about as good as you will get. However, even with its 1200 large pages, it covers but a very small portion of the U.S. tokens out there. Even some types that it does cover (such as Civil War tokens) are not covered well. Rulau devoted 140 pages to Civil War tokens in his book, and he only lists the most common one for each die or merchant as he did not want the cwt section to dominate his book. One merchant may have produced over two hundred varieties, but Rulau will only list the most common ONE. You can see why it may be a nearly impossible to determine the correct cwt id using his book. I do love ebay sellers who use it though, as I have picked up many a rare cwt that the seller incorrectly id&#039;d and listed as a common.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also Rulau lists in the front many types of token that he does not attempt to cover, and there are many others that are not covered nor in the list, although most of those are somewhat obscure. The three books USS656 posted in post 7 are necessities for serious cwt collecting. Miscellaneous early token collecting needs would be best met by the Rulau catalog. Most anything more specialized will require more specialized references. I have over 200 exonumia specific reference books, and my library is far from complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let me know what types of tokens you may be interested in, and I will try to help you determine the best book(s) to acquire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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