Penny Whimsy

I have two copies of it. It is a good book. About the only difference between it and Penny Whimsy are some changes in the listed condition censuses, some rarity changes, and maybe the addition of a variety or two. The plates are fair, inmy opinion not as good as the 1958 plates, about on par with the 1976 plates. Maybe not quite as good as the 76. $20 was a good price. The pricehas gone down but my first copy cost me $75.

Great buy Jerry! I paid $45.00 for my copy of the 1976 edition off ebay two years ago. I see them sell for more than $50 all the time, so you done good on that one, even with the tape damage.

For high quality it has already been mentioned earlier in this post, the Dan Brown four part (Goldberg) collection is pretty impressive, also the Wes Rasmussen auction catalog (Heritage) is pretty good. I'm still looking for a copy of the Walter Husak sale catalog (Heritage) with no luck this year so far. But the auction catalogs will have some of the best photos of some incredibly rare coins. Since they are made to entice bids and sell coins their photography is top notch.

The Breen Large Cent Encyclopedia is still very good as I delve into it more. Expensive? Yes. Errors? Yes. But an incredible amount of good information. For a free reading copy on line see the PCGS link: http://www.pcgs.com/books/ I've mentioned this link in several posts previously, and I use it all the time, great of PCGS to get the rights to so many fine numismatic books for public use online.

The best Large Cent book IMO is only for the middle dates 1816-1839 it's called "The Cent book 1816-1839" appropriately enough it is authored by John D. Wright, awesome photos and great explanations. Next best is the Noyes series the two earlier books are only B&W photos 1793-1814 and 1816-1839 but they are expensive, the pair sells for around $225+ usually, his next books published after cover 1793-1794 and 1795-1797 both with color plates. His latest volumes 5 & 6 cover 1816-1857 also in color. and all expensive around $200/volume.

The Early American Copper club has a list of all these and some more on their resources link on the main page http://www.eacs.org/books.html

Now get to reading everyone!

Hey Jerryc39 if you haven't already join the EAC (info at their website) http://www.eacs.org the Pennywise magazine and back issue archive alone is worth a years subscription!