Book On Colonial And Early American Coins

For attributing that is probably about the best book out there. It has all of the major colonial issues all in one book and with good (if off color) pictures of all the varieties in one place. If you want to know more about the background history of any of the issues as well then I would recommend Early Coins of America by Sylvester Crosby.

Want to go old school as you progress? Get a copy of Sylvester Crosby's "Early American Coins" one of the first numismatic books that really covered colonial issues, that was my first book on early american issues (other than already having Breen's Encyclopedia). The Bower's Whitman will be my next one. One can never have too many books on a subject.

Crosby's book:
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Coins-A...p/0942666240

Funny thing when I brought up the link in Amazon it suggested the Whitman-Bowers book as an addition to order!

Breen's data is to be taken with a grain of salt, especially in mintage or rarity figures, for the most part his research is solid, but over the years, many things he couldn't he guessed and sometimes that became fact. From a lot of research done by Kevin Flynn in the 2¢ series of proof coin mintage figures. I think his book is still quite valuable, once in awhile I'll see one sell for $50 but it seems most copies still bring $75-125. The Crosby book was one of the first numismatic books that took collecting seriously and tried to tell the history of US and early colonial coinage.

Here is a link, to a post I made previously on the S. S. Crosby book.

https://goccf.com/t/115285&SearchTerms=auction

GR58,
Would love to see your Colonials :)