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HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby uthminsta » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:51 pm

Back in 1999, I was coming along with a British collection I had just started the previous year. At a show for the local coin club I was part of back then, one of my dealer friends brought a book which he had recently picked up, especially for me:
COINCRAFT'S 1999 STANDARD CATALOGUE of ENGLISH & UK COINS 1066 TO DATE
http://www.amazon.com/Coincrafts-Standa ... 006&sr=8-2
I recently decided that, having used this book faithfully for over a decade, I might try to pick up a newer edition. Checked on Amazon and the last edition of this book was in 2000.

Anyone know of a good book that specializes in British coins like this one does? Preferably something in-depth, affordable, and published more recently?

I should add that I have recent enough Krause books for the last 5 or 6 centuries, but they don't have nearly the information that the Coincraft book does. Looking for anything that is all-in-one and a little more than just a price list.
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Re: HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby AGgressive Metal » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:55 pm

I have a few, don't know if they will be as modern as you want or not though.
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
-Aesop's Fables, Caxton edition 1484

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Re: HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby uthminsta » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:56 pm

Edited to say mine was the 1999 edition. What do you have, AG-M? PM me if you wanna. Thanks
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Re: HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby AGgressive Metal » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:00 pm

I take that back, looks like the only specifically British one I have is focused on the Commonwealth/Colonial coins like Sierra Leone, Bermuda, British West Africa, etc.

However, the downtown coin store in Cincinnati has a huge library I can ask what the best one is (I'd like to know too!)
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
-Aesop's Fables, Caxton edition 1484

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Re: HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby uthminsta » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:09 pm

That's the 2000 edition of what I have... and it's the newest I can find. I was hoping that maybe someone else besides Coincraft had made something since then.
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Re: HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby henrysmedford » Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:29 pm

uthminsta wrote:That's the 2000 edition of what I have... and it's the newest I can find. I was hoping that maybe someone else besides Coincraft had made something since then.


Maybe EBAY UK see http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Publications-/548/i.html?_catref=1
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Re: HELP! What book should I be looking for?

Postby uthminsta » Fri Feb 01, 2013 1:16 am

Thanks for the idea, Joe. I looked a bit at what they offer, then looked for it in the U.S. I am thinking maybe this book, or one of the recent years' editions, might be ideal. Just wish it was cheaper. So... does anyone have access to cheap numi-books?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907427244
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