After months of planning and work, Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC are pleased to unveil their new and improved website. The firm also announce Mail Bid Sale 122, which features over 1400 lots of rare and desirable numismatic literature.
Numismatic researchers and bibliophiles are invited to visit www.numislit.com and review new and enhanced features, including: [...]
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The upcoming September/October issue of the ErrorScope, the bimonthly journal of the Combined Organizations of Numismatic Error Collectors of America (CONECA), features new finds ranging from a new 1988 Doubled Die Obverse cent to a Double Struck 1972-D Kennedy half-dollar.
Sandwiched in between are articles on subjects as diverse as who hobby pioneer James G. Johnson Jr. was to an article on a foreign doubled die, a Standing Liberty quarter cud, Ike dollar "Peg Leg" varieties and miscellaneous errors on US coins [...]
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Krause Publications and F+W Media, Inc. have announced a new special to celebrate Father’s Day. Between June 17 and June 19, they are offering 70% off the Strike It Rich with Pocket Change eBook. During that short period, it is only $2.99.
The market for error coins is an interesting one, and a person could make thousands of dollars by finding the right coin. The latest edition of Strike It Rich With Pocket Change, released earlier this year, was written by error coin experts Ken Potter and Dr. Brian Allen with the unique market in mind [...]
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The 3rd edition of Strike It Rich With Pocket Change, by renowned error coin experts Ken Potter and Dr. Brian Allen, is now available from Krause Publications.
The new edition of Strike It Rich With Pocket Change includes dozens of new varieties on State Quarters, Presidential Dollars, "Ocean In View" Nickels, and Lincoln cents; more defined photographs and illustrations; and an addition of type and degree of error information in the descriptions.
"Have you ever knowingly spent $100 on a candy bar or $50 on a soft drink? As ludicrous as the concept sounds, there is no doubt that you [...]
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Kolbe & Fanning LLC, Numismatic Booksellers, are pleased to announce that they have been commissioned by the authors to produce specially bound editions of Joel Orosz and Leonard Augsburger’s exciting new book The Secret History of the First U.S. Mint, just published by Whitman.
Two special editions are available. The first, limited to 25 copies, is bound in green [...]
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A new book created to help hobbyists introduce the enjoyment of numismatics to children, Coin Collecting for the Next Generation, is now available.
Written by prolific author Kevin Flynn of Lumberton, New Jersey, the 128-page, softcover book gives collectors, dealers and show organizers successful ideas for getting children involved in coin collecting to help the hobby grow in future years [...]
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One of the most valuable tools available to even the most casual of coin collectors is due to be released in an updated issue — the 2012 Redbook of U.S. Coins.
Whitman Publishing is currently offering free shipping on entire orders which include at least one of the four different 2012 Redbook versions it sells. Other coin collecting supply stores are beginning to offer them as well. Wizard Coin Supply currently has each version available for pre-order at half price [...]
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On Saturday, January 8, 2011, Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers LLC conducted their 120th sale of rare and out-of-print numismatic literature, a public auction at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City in conjunction with the New York International Numismatic Convention.
Featured were 500 lots on a great variety of topics, including rare works on Russian coins and medals from the Dr. Ira Rezak Library, highlights from the outstanding Latin American Numismatic Library formed by Alan Luedeking, and other important works covering the numismatic spectrum [...]
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Gold and grading share the spotlight in The Coin Collector’s Survival Manual, Seventh Edition, the just-released latest edition of the perennial hobby bestseller by award-winning author Scott A. Travers.
Published by Random House, this thoroughly updated 400-page book also contains two new and timely fact-filled chapters; one on buying and selling gold coins and other precious metal items, the other on recent innovations in coin grading.
A new chapter titled "A Grade Leap Forward" explores what Travers calls "the new math of coin grading" — the enhancement made possible in early 2010 when [...]
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Lovers of classical Rome along with legions of coin collectors helped drive 2005′s "Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins" to an unlikely Top Ten position in the most sought after out-of-print books in America according to Bookfinder.com the news of which was then brought to national attention in an article in the Christian Science Monitor.
These fans were pleased when noted numismatist Rasiel Suarez announced the availability of the long-awaited second edition just days later [...]
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