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<p>[QUOTE="Fish, post: 227015, member: 6034"]Yeah, Breen's Encyclopedia is an excellent buy. As the other said, errors and omissions are to be expected, but it's still a fine, fine book. I paid about $80 for mine. You might want to try <a href="http://www.abebooks.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.abebooks.com" rel="nofollow">www.abebooks.com</a> as well, you can get a good deal there sometimes. My understanding is that Breen also wrote a few books on gold, incuilding one on fractional gold with a gentleman named Grillo, which is the standard reference on that type.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for his other gold books, I've never had the pleasure to run across one and peruse it, nor have I met anyone that has one, so I can't say anything about their usefulness. I can say that most if not all of them are out-of-print, and are likely to be expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck,</p><p><br /></p><p>Fish[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fish, post: 227015, member: 6034"]Yeah, Breen's Encyclopedia is an excellent buy. As the other said, errors and omissions are to be expected, but it's still a fine, fine book. I paid about $80 for mine. You might want to try [URL="http://www.abebooks.com"]www.abebooks.com[/URL] as well, you can get a good deal there sometimes. My understanding is that Breen also wrote a few books on gold, incuilding one on fractional gold with a gentleman named Grillo, which is the standard reference on that type. As for his other gold books, I've never had the pleasure to run across one and peruse it, nor have I met anyone that has one, so I can't say anything about their usefulness. I can say that most if not all of them are out-of-print, and are likely to be expensive. Good luck, Fish[/QUOTE]
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