My Latest Column For Coinweek: The Value Of Books...

Very interesting article. I started reading CoinWeek recently and I really enjoy the articles. I also like your plug about us trying to spend 100,000 dollar coins. It would be great if others would contribute to this.

Enjoyed the article immensely. I very much love finding older oop numismatic writings. So much so that I sometimes buy the book over the coin...visions of shelf after shelf of coin references are oddly comforting to me....

I too sort of appreciated this story. Unfortuately I only read the first part as usual. Being on the older side, I get bored fast or easy. And as to Facebook, I keep away from web sites like that. Again, I'm old so new things just don't register with me for a long time.
As to the value of books on coins. It is sort of a shame how fast they become just garbage. At coin shows there is always a table of two with numerous books on coins. More and more they just don't sell though. Why should they when all the same and more info is on the internet.
Way back I remember a relative that was a teacher and she kept all the text books from each year. She HAD more book cases than most people have rooms in their houses today. When she retired she ended up donating them all to the Salvation Army. She tried all the Libraries in the area and was told no one wants old books anymore.
I too USED to have many bookcases full of books. I too found no one wants them so I too started to either throw them out or give to the Salvation Army until they too said no more.
A neighbor recently passed away. Relatives came in a threw out massive amounts of magazines and books. They too found no one wants them.
I'm afraid books are like film cameras. Some are worth a little as a collectors item, but not many use them.

Thanks for all the feedback. As always, a very experienced and knowledgeable collector base here. To your point Carl, the internet is a great resource and tool- probably on an apples to apples basis the internet is a better proposition than books- but, as the saying goes "you don't know what you don't know"... and its the element that something may surprise you when you turn the next page is what makes me think that books still have a role. Not to mention, I want to know, as a collector what someone in 1916 thought about the Winged Liberty dime... I want that perspective. :)