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Valued Member
United States
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I am in high school Instead of reading 15 lessons and each lesson is 46 pages of jane eyre (an english women in england which takes place in the 1816's) I decided to do this: Read a book, and do a book report about it. The book is going to be on Stephen Hawkings theories. I also have to do a coin project, this time, it isn't about art. Today I going to talk to the art teacher about how long the art project has to be. However this project has to be 21 pages and in coins in general. Here's the catch, I have to cite all my resources. Now I've learned alot about coins, generally from 2 or 3 books I have on numismatics, and the PCGS guide to Counterfeit Detection and grading. I don't really know any good books to buy on toning, or gold coins. The problem with citing all my resources is ive learned alot about coins already in my 11 years of collecting and I don't remember where I learned this stuff. So, I'm going to have to go through every thing I can find on the internet books and the few books I Have (I can't go to the library and find coin books. they don't have any. The only book they have is a krause book), the bookstore has a few more numismatic books, but again nothing really. And I don't have any money (nor do my parents) to buy any numismatic books. So my only choice besides the few books I have, is the internet It has to be 21 pages, and have a cover page (1 page), a conclusion (1 page) and an introduction (1 page) which takes away a few pages. I need to go through numerous aspects of coins, if anyone could help me with this list: Toning, grading, counterfeits, altering, doctoring, tooling, etc. Gold coins, world coins, to compare and contrast coins from different worlds to each other, US coins, US coin history, other world coin history, gold coin history, the gold standard relating to gold coins, PCGS, the grading services, coin lingo (DMPL, 'across the street', 3rd party grading service, etc) Thanks |
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Forum Mom
 United States
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If you join the ANA, you also get their numismatic library lending priviledges. This means that you only have to pay for the membership ($36/yr) and the shipping for the books. Here is a link to their website. Since you are a little pressed for time, you may want to call them. http://www.money.org/There are a number of books I'd recommend: Breen Encyclopedia of US coins - for US coin histories, processes, and varieties Red Book Guide to US coins - more US info in a very inexpensive book United States Gold Coins - An Illustrated History There are also plenty of others to pick from. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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You may also want to consider adding in coins minted by US mints for other countries....like this florin minted by the San Francisco Mint in 1944. You should be able to make out the "S" mint mark in this example.  In the 1940's...both the Denver as well as the Frisco Mints helped out in the mintage of the 3 & 6 pence, the shilling and the florin. These are now sought after varieties to Aussie predecimal collectors especially in the high grades...  Edited by lim118
10/07/2005 5:51 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
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Great thanks. I will try to add that as part of my paper.
The problem is though I know alot about coins but obviously cannot just write about my opinion because on everything I have to cite my sources. It's like everything I say has to come from some where else, for other people to take credit but I myself cant take credit?
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Thanks alot lim118!!! Now there is something else for me to look for! Are they available or leaning to the rare, hard to find or very expensive side of things?
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Valued Member
United States
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Originally posted by Susanlynn9
If you join the ANA, you also get their numismatic library lending priviledges. This means that you only have to pay for the membership ($36/yr) and the shipping for the books.
Here is a link to their website. Since you are a little pressed for time, you may want to call them.
http://www.money.org/
There are a number of books I'd recommend:
Breen Encyclopedia of US coins - for US coin histories, processes, and varieties
Red Book Guide to US coins - more US info in a very inexpensive book
United States Gold Coins - An Illustrated History
There are also plenty of others to pick from.
Thank you Susan, You've always been so helpful! But I do not have any money, see my thread about the problem coin I got from clark smith, I spent all my money on that coin. So I cant join the ANA right now, nor can I buy any books. I can use the books that I have, and the rest has to come from the internet, unfortunately. I will look forwards to those books in the future. Do you know of any good books on the history of spanish gold and world gold coins? thanks the reason I'm asking this is because I mostly collect world gold coins |
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Forum Mom
United States
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I'm pretty sure that Krause publishes a book solely on World gold coinage. I can't find my Transline catalog to check the title. I'll post the title when I find it.
The reason you are not permitted to cite yourself as a resource for your paper is that a large part of the purpose of research papers is to teach the students how to do proper research and the correct procedures for using that research, such as when to quote, when to paraphrase, and how to cite the examples used properly. I personally always enjoyed them, but many find it very tedious.
If you look on the left side of the page, you will see a link called US Coin Histories. That may help you also. Please be sure to look at the bottom of the Coin Histories page. This material is from Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC). Be sure to note that if you cite any of the info from there.
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United States
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Forum Mom
United States
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If you have a Borders book store near you, you may be able to find some books there that you can look through while sitting in their cafe. They don't seem to have a problem with that at all.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Originally posted by crystalk64
Thanks alot lim118!!! Now there is something else for me to look for! Are they available or leaning to the rare, hard to find or very expensive side of things?
They are still around but hard to find in the GEM grades and are not very expensive eg the one in the scan has a book value of AUD $170.00. The Aussie predecimals minted by US Mints are as follows: ("S" for San Francisco & "D" for Denver. Book values are in brackets) 3 pence: 1942S ($60.00),1942D ($60.00),1943S ($100.00)1943D ($65.00),1944S ($45.00) 6 pence 1942S ($95.00)1942D ($85.00)1943S($110.00)1943D($85.00)1944S($85.00) Shillings: 1942S($125.00)1943S($90.00)1944S($95.00) Florins: 1942S($200.00)1943S($180.00)1944S($170.00) Please note all dollar values are in Aussie dollars. Cheers...Lim |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Dies are often polished after being used for awhile. This polish cuts scratches in the die which shows up as raised patches on coins. Dies also begin to fail after awhile and they get cracks in them. These too show up as raised lines on coins. Counterfeit coins often lose their more subtle details through transfer. So die polish patches and die cracks will not show up very well, possibly not at all. So a coin with strong unbroken die polish and die cracks is a good indicator that a coin is genuine. Mind you it's just an *indicator.* The source is the ANA's video: Detecting Counterfeit and Altered U.S. Coins-- Narrated by JP Martin. |
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United States
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Lim
Thanks for the US data on minting
I am about to go through my inventory to see which ones I have and now need.
Not nice.
You are going to cost me money.
But that is what this game is all about.
I am grateful that you continue to share your knowledge.
However I am going to email Toast and find out why we haven't heard from him on this forum for a while.
rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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Australia
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No probs Richard....glad to be able to help out in anyway I can.
Toast has gone very quiet, even in the ACTB Forum.
Cheers....Lim
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