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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2866756, member: 66"]One problem of Mikes statement that Herbert's and Margolis's books were much better is that they didn't come along until ten to thirty years after Spaldone's work.  Yes his book, viewed through what we know today, is a joke.  But viewed through what was known at that time,it was a pioneering work.  At that time there just wasn't a lot that was understood about errors and varieties by the average collector.  If you read the error coin columns printed in the numismatic publications of the 40's, 50's, and 60's, a LOT of the explanations given for the "odd coins" submitted are wrong.  As I said in the other thread the two major problems with his work was that it was filled with MINOR errors in a book that was supposed to be covering major errors and varieties (see the title), and that as time passed and more was known so that the mistakes in the book were identified, they were NOT removed from the later editions.[/QUOTE]