Books For Your Numismatic Library

Above, my copy of the 1976 "Red Book". Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Since I have re-entered the world of coin collecting, I currently subscribe to two coin-related magazines, COINage and Numismatist (through my membership in the American Numismatic Association).

I do have a vintage 1976 Bicentennial edition of A Guide Book of United States Coins (known as the Red Book). Note its price in the image above. I should get the current edition, I suppose. It is around $19.95 today.

Numismatic News has posted an article on "Books for Your Numismatic Library" with recommendations on which ones that should be included.

They begin it with:

Do you have a numismatic library? For the purpose of this article, I’ll assume that you don’t. What books would make good additions to a budding numismatic library?

The initial purchase should probably be a book that combines an overview of coin collecting with coin values. A good example of this is the current Guide Book of United States Coins, a.k.a. the Red Book, because of the color of its cover.

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