How Many Nr's?

This is a great poll. You're so right that it's easy to forget to add to the library as often as you add to your collection (or close). With new books on every series coming out all the time and all the wonderful older reference books, it's very important to have reference material about your colleting interests.

By the way, for anyone interested, the new Overton Bust Half book is due to be published soon. It's being updated by a relative of Al Overton's. I'm really looking forward to this one!

Hard to say whis is my favourite or most valuable,
but the most used is
The Pocket Guide to Australian Coins and Banknotes by Greg McDonald

Susan mentioned Al Overton.

One of my late Aunts was a good friend of Al's, and I can remember her telling me about him before I became a collector. Boy, was that a few years ago.

I had to look back through my email. The Overton book is being updated by Don Parsley. I got this information from someone I consider a Bust Half expert in the WINS club.

Bowers' Morgan Silver Dollars (AKA The Official Red Book of Morgan silver dollars) without question. It's absolutely essential for any Morgan nut like myself. Most of the rest of my coin "library" are catalogs. HOWEVER (and a BIG "however"), I use the internet extensively for coin references and research and have dozens or hundreds of sites bookmarked.

Fred

Guess ND knows me pretty good? More books than brains! I can't begin to express what it was like to finally buy Krause Standard Catalog of World Coins (have 1600 to now)! It is hard to fathom the trememdous amount of information and coins that have been struck world wide in the last 400 years. One catalog has over 350 pages just on the German States alone! Its mind boggling to say the least! I also have guide books from Canada, the Netherlands and working on getting Australia! Many U.S. books here covering many topics and even have a few on U.S. currency! Probably in the 11 to 15 range (at least) without digging them all out!

The book I use the most is my most recent Red Book, but my favorite is my copy of Bowers' Morgan book.

Rachel [:p]

There is a LOT of difference between collecting and loving the Morgan dollar than looking at VAMS! I looked in to VAMS a couple of years ago and that lasted about a month. I don't have the time or desire to put every Morgan under a scope and hope to find something that should or should not be there. We are seeing the same "scoping" of the 2005 Buffalo and Ocean View nickels and, well, I just don't understand? Maybe its just me and the time I have available for coin collecting but actually finding something worthy of official recognition is about one in a million! Now don't get me wrong as I have nothing but respect for those who actually study every little detail of a coin! I just don't see it being any benefit for me to do so myself? Until something unique pops up, like the speared bison of 2005, I am content to just try and collect the highest grades coins I can to fill my sets or add to my holdings! As for my Morgans, I try to buy the highest grade possible at any given time, but must admit some of the key and semi-keys are getting tough to locate and very costly. My collecting habits are across the spectrum, so to speak, so concentrating on just one series of coins is not in my realm of possiblities at this time.