Coins Books

AWESOME - it doesn't get much better. Excellent photos and text. This is the ONE book that you must own if interested in United States Indian Peace medals.

From book's back cover:

"Ctrl+Alt+Del, the popular web comic, is now available for the first time ever on honest-to-goodness paper with this first collection of strips.

* Almost the entire first year re-mastered from the original digital files
* Running commentary by the cartoonist and characters
* Exclusive strips, not found anywhere else
* Original, never-before-seen sketches, including the first ever sketches of Ethan and Lucas
* New car smell, and a 100% monkey-proof cover"

This book is great. It is loaded with important information for beginning and experienced coin collectors. It is mainly actual value tables for all US coins in addition to fantastic explanation of coin collecting terms and basic information about coin collecting.

I bought this for a family member and he loves it, very simple to look things up. A lot of book for a little money

For anyone who is interested in investing in rare coins,

Scott Travers' book can help you get on the right track on what to look for, how to select a dealer, and explains how third party grading services work. Illistrated with colour photos, this book gives concise and usefull information .Scott Travers is a member of the ANA ( American Numismatic Association, the country's largest orgniaztion devoted to numismatics.) board of governors.

Very good information as far as investment strategy is concerned...but you will need to have a dedicated financial outlook in order to comply with the recommendations.......

Thomas Noonan was a professor of History at the University of Minnesota and one of the world's leading and most prolific scholars of medieval Russia for nearly three decades. Particularly, Professor Noonan's research focused on analyzing the hundreds of Islamic silver coin hoards that were deposited in the soil of Scandinavia, the eastern Baltic, and European Russia during the late eighth through the late tenth centuries. Using the hoards, Noonan succeeded in establishing patterns of Viking activity in Eastern Europe which had remained elusive to historians due to the lack of literary evidence for the period. He shed further light on the numismatic evidence by surveying the Russian archaeological material and the literary evidence from Byzantium, Khazaria, Central Asia, and the Islamic Caliphate.

This collection of essays addresses such questions as: Why did the Vikings first come to Russia? One of the primary reasons, according to Noonan, was the availability of silver flowing through Eastern Europe from the Islamic Caliphate. In another article, Noonan discusses why the flow of silver began in the mid- to late-eighth century, focusing particularly on the problems within the Caliphate, which led to its concluding peace and opening of trade relations with the Khazars. In another article, Noonan examines the distribution of silver throughout Russia in the ninth century, which suggests patterns of Viking activity in the East which are not discernible in the written sources. Noonan's reconstruction of this portion of Viking history using often intractable evidence is a brilliant contribution to Viking and Russian history.

Readers should be aware, however, that this is a collection of essays and not a monograph. The reader should not expect an immediately accessible narrative of Viking raids and adventures. Noonan's writing style is, however, refreshingly lucid and engaging for high scholarship. The cost of the collection is also beyond the practical means of most readers. In order to avoid the cost, one may find all of the articles in journals and anthologies available in most research libraries.

Warnings of accessibility and cost aside, Noonan's work is fundamental to anyone seriously interested in the eastern Viking world. Viking studies has long suffered from its wetern European emphasis. General works on the Vikings may include a short section on the Vikings in Russia, but these sections are too often brief and simplistic due to the understandable problems in assimilating Russian-language material. Professor Noonan tried to redress the balance, but his work was often ignored because he did not produce a monograph before his death in 2001. It is hoped that the articles in this volume, along with his more than 100 studies, will receive more attention in the future.

The classic Gingerbread Man receives new embellishment with Bonnie and Bill Rutherford's simple, fun drawings. Any who want an updated title will find this contains all the attraction of the classic tale.

This catalogue provides a useful and comprehensive overview of jital coinage. The catalogue layout is very easy to use and the line drawings are invaluable to attributions. Well made and highly recommended to all serious numismatists.

called the book "Charming!"
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The AUTHOR