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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 670836, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Buy the book before you buy the coin.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are many.&nbsp; Very many.&nbsp; People will recommend the one they happen to have, not having seen many more, but many more exist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are many ways to do this.&nbsp; One is to just goto your local book retailer and see what they have.&nbsp; Note the authors of the books you like.&nbsp; Look them up in the ANA Library Catalog and/or the ANS Library Catalog and see which ones are really numismatists.&nbsp; You can judge a book by its bibliography, also.&nbsp; Alot of so-called &quot;coffee table&quot; books have pretty pictures, but facts are lacking or statements are inaccurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you goto a state, regional or national show, you might meet JOHN BURNS or another of the numismatic booksellers.&nbsp; There are others who sell new books -- and that&#039;s fine -- but Burns and few others specialize in classic books of lasting value.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the new books, Whitman Publishing has been aggressive over the last five or so years in creating a line of <b>astounding and affordable </b>books about coins, their history and collecting. Among them are the &quot;100 Greatest&quot; for Ancients, US Tokens, <a href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&amp;ProductID=0794820069" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&amp;ProductID=0794820069" rel="nofollow">US Banknotes </a>and <a href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&amp;ProductID=0794825613" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&amp;ProductID=0794825613" rel="nofollow">US Coins</a>.&nbsp; (The books in the 100 Greatest series are $29.95 each.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Join the email list of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_archive.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Click here</a> for the E-Sylum. (You can read the archives without joining.)&nbsp; No one knows books like the NBS.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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