I Want Some New Books!

Hrmm I suppose I should've been more specific...

I was hoping for books on coins.. specifically Canadian ones... I don't have many tokens but I love learning the history on them... and I have been reading up on Dr. Haxby's work with the large cents...

But you know what? Let's really open it up... any books would be good...

Personally I read a whole lot more non-fiction really... mostly magazines... as the only time I really read is when I'm in the bathroom .. magazines are perfect you can get an article done & done... TMI?
I like reading about finances and financial magazines... I like fitness magazines.. and like anything that has to do with how people learn...

I think the last book(s) I read were "Pillars of the Earth" and "Birdsong" (I do like my WWI & WWII novels!)

So let's hear it..

Coin related books... or perhaps just a really good read.. please give me your suggestions..

How 'bout:
Krause World Coins,
covering the last four centuries?
Not much of a storyline, but nevertheless a comprehensive statement of the development of World coinage, over the last four hundred years.

I have about 2,000 books covering technical subjects:
numismatics books, on both ancient and modern coinages,
U.S. Mallet steam locomotives,
WW1 and 2 aircraft and ships, both military and civil,
heavy military arms and armour,
classic cars, (I own an old Mercedes),
spacecraft and spaceflight,
horology,
gemnology and gemcutting, (I am a gemcutter),
Christian reference and devotional books,
World geology, geography and history.

No novels or poetry, unfortunately; I am a complete literary Philistine!

why not write your own book or chronicle.?
it would take up more time than money.
and you would have a record of the coins/tokens
when and how and where you got them
about how you started etc.
and what you have learned over time.
it may not sell a zillion copies.
but you might cherish it as much as the coins
themselves(imo)
I wish i`d started a while ago.
I think you could post installments on
this board

best

If you are into World War II I think you will enjoy "In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe-A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust".

For your number 2 reading Uncle John's Bathroom Readers is a good way to go. I believe number 13 covers the ice cream dime and other expensive coins.

Also if you want to combine World War II and numismatics there is "World War II Remembered: History in Your Hands, a Numismatic Study". I haven't personally read it but it is one my want list.

I've found this book to be very useful in answering questions I had about specific types of Canadian cents and dollars. I haven't really looked at the other denominations yet. http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Canadia...+tokens

Fully support this read. Fantastic book.

Does anyone have anything to suggest for newfoundland and maritime coinage..

Right now as it stands in my shopping cart at Amazon are the following books...
1) The official blackbook guide to world coins (0.01)
2) coins of canada by J. Haxby (0.01)
3)striking impressions J. Haxby (0.10)
4) A guide book of Canadian Coins (14.60)

-considering counterfeit portrait eight reales - but I'm not sure how much value I will get out of it... as it's not a coin a collect.. but I think with 600 pages there may be a few things I could learn that would cross over to canadian coins...

I would really like either something that could teach me more on how to detect counterfeit coins or something about newfie and maritime coins...

I tried searching on Amazon a few of the other suggestions that piqued my interest... but no hits... (billfrak I have seen one with almost the exact same title but it was a seminar in Regina and by someone with a different name... )

Anyways... any other suggestion.. would love to hear 'em as I hope to buy all this by the end of tonight...