Bill, I agree, this is a wonderful book. I have read it cover to cover a handful of times, and the already well worn condition of the book shows it.

After 40 years of collecting coins, medals and tokens, the book has prompted me to singularly focus only on collecting this series of medals. As John Adams states in the book, you are not only collecting medals, you are collecting history! I am also doing further research on the Howard medal.

Check out my Avatar, I am thinking you will appreciate it...

I think it's a beautiful medal. I've tried to specialize/focus a few times in my collecting life but it never lasts very long and wham! I'm back to collecting everything.

Welcome, I spotted your name and avatar when you joined. I love books as well as coins (and photography). I wish I could afford to attempt to collect the series in original die states (a proof, original Libertas at Kagin's bourse table--I will never forget holding that beauty even though it was encapsulated), but it is still an interesting and historical series in the later French and US Mint strikings. Not real expensive and still something one can appreciate. I would love to see your efforts posted here when you are ready.

Its been awhile since anyone has posted in this thread including myself. I've acquired more than a few books since then, but two are significant additions. My last post was

Comitia Americana and Related Medals: Under Appreciated Monuments to Our Heritage
by John W. Adams and Anne E. Bentley
Published by George Frederick Kolbe, 2007


While I could not afford the deluxe edition printed by Bird and Bull Press, I did acquire a copy of

The Magnum Opus of Joseph Florimond Loubat: A Leaf Book by Adams, et al. printed by Bird & Bull Press, 2007.

The book includes two original plates from Lobat's original book. After admiring the paper, printing, and quality of the original, I finally acquired an original, signed copy of:

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876. By Loubat. Published in new York by the author, 1878, signed by the author in Paris, November 25, 1889. It has been rebound, but it is still a beautiful example of printing, paper, and engraving.

I just ordered the 2006 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money...... Couple of years old, but in brand new shape..... Got it for 15 bucks from Ebay.....

A great little addition to my 2 North volumes

Richard, please may you PM the ISBN number of that North book?

Done! Sorry to be such little help!

Many thanks for the info!

Moedas e Notas, Catalogo De Portugal e Ex-Colonias e Da Uniiao Europeia 20th edition by F F da Silva

Leuchtturm Euro-Katalog Munzen und Banknoten 2008

Needed the Portugise one for some of my earlier stuff and the Euro for obviously my Euros LOL

Here are three of my latest books:


Callu, J. P., and P. Bastien. Inventaire des Tresors de Bronze Constantiniens (313-348). Le Tresors Monetaire des Fresnoy-les-Roye II (261-309) . Wetteren, 1981.


Duval, Noël and Vladislav Popovic, eds. Sirmium VIII. Études de Numismatique Danubienne: Trésors, Lingots, Imitations. Monnaies de Fouilles IV au XII Siècle. Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome, 1978.


Duncan, C. L. Coin Circulation in the Danubian and Balkan Provinces of the Roman Empire A.D. 294-578. London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1993.

"Latin American Bank Note Records"
The American Banknote Company Archives
By Ricardo M Magan

A gift from the Mrs and I am blown away by the variety of notes it fetures and the info it contains on them They printed for 22 countries in this region from 1870 to 1970 now that is something I would love to find similar books for some of the other Banknote producers. I do have a great book on Chinese notes that has the notes for the top 5 Banks in my collection as well

My copy of the deluxe edition of the 2nd edition of Hibler and Kappen's So-Called Dollars arrived yesterday. Hardbound and full color unlike the trade edition (paper bound, black-and-white). Five of my photographs of my medals are included and I am listed in the acknowledgments. I was asked to contribute photographs based on my Coin People posts and I was happy to do so. Needless to say, I am very pleased with the book!

Added another just published work as well:

Striking Change: The Great Artistic Collaboration of Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. By Michael F. Moran, Whitman Press, 2008.

I haven't read it as yet, but Moran's article on the San Francisco earthquake and the US Mint published in the Numismatist a couple of years ago was excellent. It was well researched and well written.

Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
by George Anthony Selgin

If you like Condor tokens (I do although I don't collect them), this will likely be an interesting book. It is economic history, but it deals with the whys of the tokens and how they helped fuel the industrial revolution. I've just started reading, but it is well written and engaging.

A few of my latest;

Types, Mints and Mintmasters of the Rare Coinage of the Normans and House of Blois A.D. 1066 to 1155 by Oliver Ratcliff. Published 1897.

The Story of British Coinage by G. B. Rawlings. Published 1898.

An offprint from The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign edited by Edmund King. Published 1994.

The Coinage of England by Charles Oman published 1931.

My latest book, for spanish coins is :

Numismatica Española Año 2008. Aureo & Calico. Coins between 1475 and 2001
also Red USA Book 2009

Has anyone bought the new book by Harlan Berk yet?