I Want Some New Books!

Haxby's 'Striking Impressions - The Royal Canadian Mint and Canadian Coinage '

Bank of Canada's 'The Art and Design of Canadian Banknotes '
and 'The Bank of Canada An Illustrated History '

Try Aspects of the Numismatics of North America or Canadian Tokens and Medals
by A.D. Hoch

I picked up three books from here:
http://www.brookstonepublishing.com/

both 5 Cent references and the "Price guide for Canadian Coins Pro. edition"
All are awesome for identifying varieties. Lots of fun.

I don't pay attention to price guides anymore. Prices are wacky.
I have six books coming from Amazon;
Canadian coin digest
Coin collecting for Dummies
A guide book of canadian coins
A guide to getting started investing in Numismatics
Collecting Rare Coins; For pleasure and profit
The experts guide to Collecting and Investing in Rare Coins,

Its all fun. I hunted down all the Charlton Coin Editions. I have most of the 68th editions.

You can get the pdf for free:

http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-conte...-history.pdf

Here are some good ones:

Standard Catalogue of Canadian Municipal Trade dollars (5th edition, 2008), by Serge Pelletier

Any of the Hans Zoell variety catalogues, are interesting, but generally tougher to find and sometimes cost a bit to get them. His complete biography is here:

http://www.cevna.com/articles/HansZoellBio.pdf

There is a very cool, and exhaustive book, on US and Canadian milk tokens, by Melvin Reiter:

http://www.amazon.com/Catalog-Dairy...p/0945008090

Rob Turner's first book, The 1858 Cents of Provincial Canada, is highly recommended. In the introductory chapters, there is a fascinating read on the events leading to Canada's first coinage...

Rob's books are listed here: http://www.victoriancent.com/books.html

I was looking for something from Hans Zoell on maritime coinage but none were available on Amazon at the moment..

I really haven't gotten into the large cents as of yet but I think that may be one of my next explorations so I will definitely keep the books by Rob Turner in my head.

I also did look at the RCNA web site prior to your suggestion.. I currently am not a member of the RCNA.. but the ability to read all the back issues is quite an incentive and probably well worth the membership fee alone.

-BTW- SPP are you involved with the library from the RCNA in some way? Just curious as the contact info they had on their page was someone from sherwood park... I just figured it might be you.

I did end up picking up the following books..
Striking Impressions
Coin clinic - 1001 FAQ's
Coin chemistry and preservation
Coins of Canada
Standard grading guide for canadian and colonial decimal coins
The official blackbook price for world coins 2010 ed 13th
Collecting rare coins for pleasure and profit
A guide book of canadian coins

With any luck and with what little spare time I have over the winter months I hope this will keep me busy, out of trouble and off the auction sites for awhile..

Yes this is the year where I would like to spend more on books and education than I do on coins.... (exception is any bullion)

I took out from Public Library, the new Green Charlton canadian Money2015.., It was there today- I checked for it Monday and not yet then.., It is very similar to the blue14 book..