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A must read for the coin enthusiastReview Date: 1998-04-04
A Terrific Book!Review Date: 2001-01-21
The bulk of this book deals with differing coin types from differing geographical areas and and the artistry of the larger series. This really does a new collector a big favor because the new collector gets to purview a plethora of coin types from throughout that series and it may go a long wat to help them decide what they would like to collect. What is really important about this book is the focus on the coiner or "celator" and what he did and the role he played as artist and the chapter on "Masterpieces of Greek Art" is a beautiful read by itself with large B&W illustrations of some of the most aesthetically pleasing coins in the series.
The great strength of this book is that it is equally beautiful and useful and the author obviously loves what he is writing about rather than giving a very dry, scholarly and perfunctory survey. I highly recommend this book.
A Superb Overview of Ancient Greek CoinageReview Date: 2004-12-06
What I also liked about this book is:
1)The list of major issuing cities with brief but interesting comments regarding the cities' history (e.g. the dramatic events such as the destruction of Messana by Carthaginians)
2) The list of the rulers of major Hellenistic dynasties (reading about these people's lives and seeing their faces on coins is really impressive)
3) Masterpieces of Greek Art section featuring 25 beautiful coins which are among the author's favourites (I personally liked about 20 of those).
One of the things you learn from this book is that you don't actually have to OWN these beautiful coins to ENJOY them. All it takes is willingness to spend your time and energy to explore these treasures from the past.
As a beginner resource, great!Review Date: 2002-09-05
A beautiful introduction to ancient Greek Coin collectingReview Date: 2003-08-13

Really interestingReview Date: 2004-03-18
This book is a GEMReview Date: 1999-09-29
Excellent GuideReview Date: 2000-05-04
Average quality on all accountsReview Date: 2004-02-27
Valuable asset to increase your Assets!Review Date: 2002-08-27


Great for Kids!!Review Date: 2008-07-21
This has been a great purchase. What you get is the coin folder & a small book. The book gives details about each state. The information is clear & concise. It's just enough to hold the interest of a little kid.
This coin collection is one of my son Patrick's most prized possessions. He has diligently searched through change, looking for whichever quarters he's needed. He has refined his reading skills sounding out the states' names as he looks for where each quarter belongs in the folder. He has waited in anxious anticipation for new quarters to be released.
We haven't had trouble getting the quarters into their places in the folder. It just takes a firm, straight push. Once they're in, they're not coming out without a good deal of effort.
I would recommend this item. This, along with a roll of random quarters would make a really good, unique birthday party gift for any kid, aged 4-12.
great buy my kids love itReview Date: 2007-07-04
Great for Kids!Review Date: 2007-11-12
Kids Statehood Quarters Collectors FOlderReview Date: 2006-08-12
Great book for collecting state quarters!Review Date: 2006-10-22

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Makes a great giftReview Date: 2008-06-30
Dollar bookReview Date: 2008-04-24
DisappointedReview Date: 2008-04-10
Great bio's of each president up to G. W. BushReview Date: 2008-06-02
GREAT PRODUCT Review Date: 2008-02-22

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Tough to readReview Date: 2000-07-18
This overview of the roman monetary system and coinage in use for a millennium in the Roman world is compelling. Prices and wages are also analyzed, as far as extant documents allow.
Politicians from around the world could learn a lot about how Gresham's law, the economic principle that bad money drives out good (good money automatically disappears because of hoarding) works; Rome provided good example that people can't be fooled easily.
Rating this book with four stars, I'm judging it as a numismatist interested in roman history and economics. I'd like to see ratings from people with other concerns.
First rate information about the role of coins in RomeReview Date: 2002-10-18
"Coinage in the Roman Economy" is unabashedly, unflinchingly academic in its approach to its subject. Expect no whimsical anecdotes about mad emperors; don't imagine that there will be thrilling descriptions of great battles. It is safe to say that Brad Pitt's agent is not negotiating for screen rights to the book. Page after page, Harl details the intricacies of Roman monetary policy, how emperors gradually (and sometimes not so gradually) diluted the precious metal content of the coins, reduced their weight, and repeatedly altered exchange rates in efforts to achieve financial stability. Yet, there is an oddly compelling flow and rhythm to that description of one thousand years of coin history as we watch the story of this instrument of Roman power and art play out against a distant background of civil wars, invasions, foreign wars, and calamities. To tackle this book, a reader should already be familiar with the central events and personalities in the long history of Rome. Otherwise, the information presented cannot be integrated with the larger story. But for the student of Roman history, there is much here not readily available elsewhere, including insights into the standard of living in those distant centuries.
For collectors of ancient coins, of course, there is another entire realm of information contained in this book: explanations of the how those treasured bits of metal were manufactured and distributed, how much a denarius could buy under Augustus and how little under Claudius Gothicus, why new eras brought new coins such as the aurelianus and the nummus.
The ideal reader of "Coinage in the Roman Economy" is one who blends interests in both Rome and the coins themselves. It is not light reading, by any means, but effort expended will be rewarded by a new appreciation of the real importance of these small pieces of metal to that complex and now-vanished world.
Addresses what many numismatic works don'tReview Date: 2007-08-16
Excellent referanceReview Date: 2005-04-19

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A Great Idea - But Still LackingReview Date: 2007-02-12
A Great Resource to starting and STAYING in businessReview Date: 2005-11-09
Of all the pagan stores I've visited in the past five years within 100 miles of my home, I can't name a single one that's still in business today that was in business a year ago. They weren't mobbed by the local fundamentalists or burned out of their homes. They just simply, quietly went out of business, often times with no more notice than an unexpected CLOSED sign on the front door. The warnings were usually there-in the stagnant or desperate energy inside the store, if not in the lack of turnover in stock or the empty shelves.
This latest note is an email from a friend back home, saying she's closing her store as of the first day of November and would I like to purchase some merchandise at 50% off. I've patronized her store every time I've been in her area. She had the best quality rose oil I've ever used! I'd noticed on my last two visits that she had broken all the rules I've read in Terri's new book. I'd mentioned the book to her, asking gently if she'd like to review it. Before I got the sentence out of my mouth, she stopped me.
"Oh, everybody thinks they can open and run a pagan store," she told me, sounding exasperated. "Everybody's got one online and it's defunct after six months because they get tired of updating it. And then people go out and try to open their own brick-and-mortar store like we did here and...well, you'd just be surprised at how many of my patrons tell me they plan to open up a store just like mine but down the street."
"A lot of them do," I reminded her. "You did." She'd been miffed about the quality of herbs in the store down the street and had opened her own store a month later. The other store lingered for another six months and then vanished. "You thought you could do better and you wanted to bring more pagan acquaintances into your life. And better herbs to your customers."
She agreed reluctantly. I asked again if she'd like to read DRAWING THE THREE OF COINS: HOW TO OPEN AND RUN A PAGAN STORE. I thought it might give her some helpful hints, especially since I was the only customer she'd had in the store all day and she was out of rose oil for my second visit in a row.
Instead, she rolled her eyes at me. "I don't need that! I mean, I've already opened a pagan store and I'm already running it. What would I need it for?"
I looked around the store at the dusty clutter, the $1200 hand-sculpted statues of Hecate that had been sitting in her store on consignment for nearly a year, the slightly skewed candles in the store window melting slowly in the glare of the summer sun. I glanced around her counters at the merchandise, all of which I recognized from Azure Green and priced significantly higher than in the Azure Green retail catalog. Surely there was something in Terri's book that she'd find beneficial.
"It's not just for new people," I told her. "Although it's a great resource. But it's got all kinds of tips and lists of vendors. And advice that she garnered after running her own pagan business for years."
My friend laughed. "You know, I could write a book like that, too. Just ask any pagan store owner, and they'll tell you how to open and run a pagan shop."
I would if I could find any pagan shops that have been around as long as Terri's. I'm not saying Terri's book would have saved my friend's store, but I do think it might have saved her a lot of trials and errors.
Compact yet usefulReview Date: 2006-07-16
The book doesn't talk about everything you need to know to open a Pagan store but it does something more important, it tells you the little details that you need to pay attention to to create have a successful store that won't close after the first year. I haven't found a comparable source elsewhere.
Small but mighty!Review Date: 2006-03-13

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A GOOD STARTReview Date: 2001-06-21
This guide gives us the politics and history of how this program got started and finally became a reality. From there it goes on to the basics of coin collecting for the novice with of course a focus on the quarters. Any information or questions that you have about these quarters are readily answered in this book.
If this is your first time in collecting coins (and you chose the quarters) "America's State Quarters" is a good start. It has all the information that you need to know. For those who have collected for years Ganz's book is adequate in introducing you to this new craze. The guide book has some faults. The pictures are terrible. Don't even try to discern the faults in the coins as described in the pictures. The pictures are poor throughout the text.
You're given a profile of each state quarter. Many of the profiles are incomplete (information not available). It would have been better for the author to provide us with a summary of those states with incomplete information and then update us as the years go by.
This is a good book for the beginning coin collector and for those who are specifically interested in the state quarter program.
Fun and lucrative both!Review Date: 2001-03-15
Everything you wanted to know about State QuartersReview Date: 2000-11-25
Best new coins best new bookReview Date: 2000-12-01
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A good reference text but.................Review Date: 2007-12-13
Cast Iron BanksReview Date: 2007-07-22
Still the same banks that were in the earlier editions though.
It's paid for itselfReview Date: 2000-03-06
This book is a necessity if you are going bank shoppingReview Date: 1999-02-15

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Best Pinball Book EverReview Date: 2006-07-20
Just essential for any pinball enthusiast!Review Date: 2006-11-03
The Bible of Pinball's 2nd Golden Age!Review Date: 2005-04-16
This is the second of a three book set written by Michael Shalhoub, and is a must-have for any serious pinball collector or enthusiast. The book is an exhaustive study of each manufacturers (The "Big Three"-Bally, Gottlieb and Williams - also Stern + Chicago Coin and others) output of pins between 1970-1981 when pinball ruled the arcades. During this particular time period more quarters were dropped in pinball machines than was spent at the movie theater box office in the United States!
What makes this book so special (as well as Mr Shalhoub's other titles)is the fact that he interviews so many of the pioneers (artists, designers etc) of pinball, which is no easy task on the authors part since he lives in Australia and almost 90% of all pinball machines were produced in the United States (Chicago)- also some of the individuals interviewed and pictured are well past 80 years old.
The book is a simple read (if you can look away from the great pictures)and each new chapter covers a different year with many highlights (interviews) included, the subject matter/questions the author presents contains specific information related to the particular individual highlighted. The authors enthusiasm is contageous as he explains the features and strategy of each particular game.
Today sadly only 1 manufacturer remains "Stern", but they are committed to pinball and still produce several thousand machines a year. This book is like a great walk down memory lane for anyone (35 and over...) who played the games before video games dominated. I highly recomend this book.
Disappointing for those who wanted a 'read'Review Date: 2008-02-20
A 'compendium' is, literally, a short complete summary, or list of various items. And in that regard, this book seeks to highlight every release, from each Manufacturer, for a given year. So the intention is absolutely fine. But there are two ways to tackle such a task. One would be to approach it entirely technically, and discuss the mechanics of each machine to pretty much the exclusion of anything else. The other would be to place each machine into its appropriate historical or cultural significance within the pinball genre, and discuss perhaps everything *but* the mechanics. Or, you could perhaps try both. In this instance, unfortunately for me, Shalhoub has tried only the former approach. Each machine has a paragraph right underneath the relevant photo and it is usually a summary of just the scoring features on the table, with only a few machines getting any in-depth history about them or the cultural significance those machines may have had. To me, this equals 240 pages of mind-numbing technical boredom.
Yes, there is some history here. The author has gone to great lengths to interview some of the absolute legends behind the scenes and these have been spliced in as a sort of page filler between each machines' stats. But really, this kind of historical effort deserved another whole book of its own. There is precious little history directly related to the pinball machines themselves and to my mind, if its titled a 'Compendium', it should have stuck to being exactly that.
The lack of titleing on each page (for example, you forget what year you are reading about, because its only mentioned once at the start of each Chapter) is also annoying. How hard would it have been to footnote each page with the Chapter name and number?
Photos of machines make or break a book like this IMHO. We all want to see the absolute best photos of the machines nearest to our hearts. And I would say generally in this hobby, aside from the photography probvided by the manufacturers themselves, the photography standard is fairly poor - there are many other poorly put together pinball books that lay testament to this fact. That's probably no surprise though - very few of us are trained to photograph the things we love best, whether its a family member or a pinball machine. But a book of this nature should have the very best photography available IMO.
Unfortunately, the photography, while extensive, is certainly not of a quality that is comparable with other hobbyist books in and out of this genre. Many of the shots of major players from Gottlieb/Williams etc appear to be snap-shots taken from the same Conferences the author (or others) have visited while in the United States. Quite a few machines appear fuzzy, out of focus, the color separations all over the place and the general standard of machine photography quite amateurish. Of course, access to these key people and older rarer machines is limited, and so the author has had to use whatever photo resources he can muster. I understand that fully. But that doesn't change the fact that the use of such non-professional photos, which an author based in the Unites States perhaps *may* have been able to work around, lowers the overall quality feel of this work. And in my estimation, marks it way down. Other authors have been able to do this better, for whatever reason.
In summary: if you're after a blow by blow scoring instruction on each of these machines from this period, some OK personal photos from real collections, and a good overall history of the behind-the-scenes players of the Big 3, then you'll enjoy this somewhat rambling journey. For me, chasing a good read and some reminders about the machines themselves and their place in the history of the game (instead of how to play them), I was left wanting a lot more.

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A useful reference work.Review Date: 2008-03-06
As a collector of currency for over 50 years, several errors in picture captions popped out at me immediately. I have also compared the pricing with the current market, and as any such volume the data is already getting stale. U.S. Currency is red hot at this time, and the market is extremely volatile. It is difficult for a catalog of this type to be useful for other than a short time frame, if the valuations are a reason for it's purchase.
Other than these small quibbles, a recommended work. Four stars.
GREAT PICTURES ; VERY INFORMATIVEReview Date: 2008-01-25
Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money 25th EditionReview Date: 2007-03-21
FULL of color pictures and information on types of notes.Review Date: 2007-10-16
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