What's your favorite currency guide or book?

Mine is probably 100 Greatest U.S. Notes that I just purchased yesterday and its the only book I have right now.

 

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krause and mischler world coins.

 

Favorite depends on what the currency guide or book is needed/used for or admired for by the collector/reader.

This will differ in opinion and experience by each individual and the function the guide serves them.

I mainly collect Small-Size U.S. FRNs right now and have three books that I refer to frequently for this area of collecting:

• Comprehesive Catalog of U.S. Paper Money by Gene Hessler
• Standard Guide to Small-Size U.S. Paper Money, Ninth Edition by Schwartz & Lindquist
• A Guide Book of United States Paper Money*, The Official Red Book (Whitman), Second Edition - by Friedberg
*This is the most heavily bookmarked, tabbed and off-the-shelf of the three books listed.


As for currency reading material, non-guidebooks:

• The Early Paper Money of America by Eric P. Newman
• The Story of American Bank Note Company by William H. Griffiths
• Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America by Jason Goodwin

I highly recommend all of the books listed above. :thumb:

 

Military Payment Certificates

 

Is that the title of the book Rusty? The OP asked "What's your favorite currency guide or book"

 

Military Payment Certificates

There are a couple of good books

1. the comperhensive book of Military Payment Certificates several volumes here!

2. Paper money of the United states also covers them

Here,s a good example from my personal collection

 

So what influenced your purchase of this book? Could you give us an initial review? or more complete book report after you've read this title?

 

Thanks Rusty. That's not only a good example of your collection, but is probably one of the very best examples around!

 

Isnt Military Payment Certificates considered currency? i would think so
Fred Scwan has a great book just thought he would like to know and
Give him an example of what they look like

 

Your original post only posted an example of an MPC and did not list any book titles. Since you often misread or clearly, do not read, thread inquires and end up posting unrelated things in threads, things that don't follow the OP, I simply asked you for a book title that you considered a favorite. You did and I also complimented your collection in the process above.

I figured everyone that's been here more than 6 months already knew since the trumpet blows frequently, that vnickels is a dealer (at the ripe old age of 12), is the god of vnickels and is an obsolete note something-or-other. All of which seems to imply that he would know what such obsolete financial instruments like MPCs look like and if not then it would be a mystery how he'd missed any of your own threads or other posts regarding MPC notes. :high5:

 

+1

 

I collect WWII Paper money, and use three main books:
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (Specialized Issues)
Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (General Issues 1368-1960)
World War II Remembered History in your hands

 

My favorite, from the perspective of "best content value per page" is Les Billets Africains de la Zone Franc". It's an out of print specialized catalog of french African banknotes, and not only has glorious color photos, but more detail than one could imagine. Authored by Leclerc and Kolsky.

In terms of the book I most often use, it would be a toss-up between Les Billets Francais de la Vigntieme Siecle by Fayette, and SCWPM Modern Issues.

Dave

 

I collect mostly modern, small-size FRN's and use the Standard Guide to Small-Size U.S.Paper Money by Schwartz-Lindquist, and more recently am relying on Robert Azpiazu's new Collectors Guide to Modern Federal Reserve Notes 1963-2009 which covers $1 thru $100. I was at the Whitman table at FUN, and there is now a 3rd Edition of the The Official Red Book for United States Paper Money. All of the above mentioned guides use full color photographs, and have excellent content into detail, and "ball park" as far as current prices.

 

Steve, thanks for the update on the 3rd Edition of the The Official Red Book for United States Paper Money.

Also highly agree with Azpaizu's work too. He's a tremendous resource.

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World War II Remembered by Schwan and Boling is my favorite reference book. Unfortunately, it is 15 years old and desperately in need up updating. Fred has been promising a new edition for years and even had drafts at the MPCFest in 2004 but nothing yet.

Raider34: Just so you know, the MPCFest in March covers all military numismatics, not just MPC. In fact, I would say that only about a quarter of the presentations deal with MPC and the remainder are almost all WWII. Most of the attendees also collect WWII related paper money and not just MPC.

 

Thanks lettow. I'm signed up for the MPCgram (which I think is great!), just haven't been able to make it out to Ohio for the show, hopefully I'll eventually make one.

 

My favorite is Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money. It covers large size, small size, mpcs, fractional, and others in a convenient size to carry.

 

Paper Money of the United States, by arthur and ira freidberg. It has full color illustrations, and a price guide, tho I am not sure how accurate the price guide is. Each section has a concise introduction, and history of the notes. For a beginner it is a great book to reference. I would think a more advanced collector would probably not reference it as much since in a way it is more like an abc of us paper money.

 

I don't much follow the prices in this book either, but I will be interested to see how they differ from 2nd to 3rd editions when I pick up the 3rd.

While I normally will use various resources from ebay completed auctions to TeleTrade to HA for prices, at times I also refer to Coin Worlds - Paper Money Values, still a bit high and general but at least the frequency of publication allows them to revise quicker than guide books. I've never looked into trying to obtain CDN Greensheet that dealers might use but would be interested to know what others think if they use them to base values on notes.