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Longstrider New Member United States 11 Posts	Posted 01/04/2015 11:33 am I checked the Breen/Gillio book out from the ANA. It's clearly fake. The book has a nice flow chart in it that wipes out any hopes right away. There goes my birthday present from my wife. She bought it from a "trusted" vendor at the coin show in Las Vegas this December. Trust no one! Report this Post to the Staff
Coinman123 New Member United States 29 Posts	Posted 01/04/2015 11:44 am I have some of those, I THINK they were minted in around 1910 as sovenier pieces of the "wild west", they are worth around ten bucks.I also have, what I'm pretty sure is, one real one. I see their selling my same kind of coin here... http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/7680950 Edited by Coinman123 01/04/2015 11:58 am Report this Post to the Staff
Groszy Pillar of the Community United States 589 Posts	Posted 01/04/2015 2:05 pm Quote: One trouble is that the standard reference to the series, the second edition of the Breen-Gillio book, is so expensive and hard to find. http://www.worldcat.org/title/calif...rief_results Unfortunately, none of the three are in Michigan, so my local library couldn't request it. A library on the other side of the sate could for me for a $2 charge. But of course, seeing as how the copyright hasn't expired on either version, I couldn't legally scan either for anyone. So...the good news: there are three copies of the second edition in libraries in the United States; world cat shows you the ISBN numbers and the OCLC number, take them to your local library and see if they can inter-library loan the book for you. Some may charge a little fee for it, others may be free (my old library didn't start charging fees until 3 years ago) You just might be able to get the book and be able to review it for a short duration (which is better than nothing). If anyone is truly interested in California Gold, that is. Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 01/05/2015 10:59 am As Longstrider says the ANA library has a copy and if you are a member you can borrow it of just the cost of media mail postage both ways. And the Jay Roe catalog is fairly extensive and probably easier to obtain. (Now if I could just remember where my copy is.) Edited by Conder101 01/05/2015 11:01 am Report this Post to the Staff
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