Coin Collecting As a Hobby / Burton Hobson

London, Velika Britanija 1977. Tvrd povez, engleski jezik, bogato ilustrovano, 191 strana.

Napomena: sitnije ogrebotine na ivicama korica; ako se to izuzme, knjiga je odlično očuvana.

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Although this book contains all of the information a beginner needs, it is aimed especially at the person whose collection has been put together from pocket change and whose interest has flagged because his collection looks like every one else's and he doesn't know what to do next.

As the book points out, he can continue with coins of his own country by searching for oddities, varieties and errors in modern available coins, or he can turn to older issues and collect by design type. If he widens his field of interest to just modern foreign coins, it opens up possibilities of collecting coins of more than 200 different nations and colonies. He may have to buy many of these, and in doing so, he may decide to direct his expanding collection toward coins commemorating historic events and famous people, or he may prefer to collect by topic — such as animals, ships, coats-of-arms, flowers, etc.

From a study of this book, a collector may be inspired to direct his attention to coins of the ancient Greeks and Romans, to medals and tokens, to odd-shaped coins, or to coins of crown or taler denomination and size.

If you are not a collector you will be amazed at the multitude of ways coins can be collected, and if you are an experienced collector, you will be surprised to see the number of new arrangements and ideas which Mr. Hobson suggests.

 

 

 

 

 

Sadržaj:

I WHY COLLECT COINS?

COIN VALUES

Supply and Demand

THE FASCINATION OF COINS 

Coins as Works of Art / Coin Collecting as a Hobby

II GETTING STARTED IN COIN COLLECTING 

SERIES COLLECTING 

Coins from Circulation / Location of Mint Marks on U. S. Coins / Building Your Collection

CONDITION TERMS 

Points of Highest Wear on U. S. Coins

TYPE COLLECTING 

Major Design Types of U. S. Coins / Displaying Type Coins / Type Collection of English Monarchs

COINS FROM MANY COUNTRIES 

Coin-Issuing Nations of the World

PROOF COIN SETS  

III SPECIALIZED COLLECTING 

COINS OF A GROUP OF COUNTRIES 

FAO Coins

TOPICAL COLLECTING 

Animals on Coins / Fish on Coins / Birds on Coins / Plants on Coins / Ships on Coins / Religious Themes on Coins / Unusual Shape Coins

COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTING

U. S. Commemoratives

CROWN OR TALER COLLECTING

Multiple Talers

NON-CIRCULATING LEGAL TENDER ISSUES 

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS

Producing Art Medals

TOKEN COLLECTING 

Encased Postagc Stamps

SIEGE COINS 

IV HOW COINS ARE MADE  

DIE VARIETIES 

MODERN COIN PRODUCTION 

ODDITIES AND ERRORS 

How They Happen

COLLECTING ANCIENT COINS 

GREEK COINS  

Display of Greek Coins

ROMAN COINS  

Roman Imperial Coinage / Attribution of Roman Coins / Condition of Roman Coins

V COIN IDENTIFICATION  

MODERN COINS 

COINS BEFORE 1800.  

Coin Dates / The Moslem Calendar / Latin Words Used in Coin Legends / Latin Forms of Monarch's Names

INSCRIPTIONS ON COINS

VISUAL IDENTIFICATION

VI COLLECTING GOLD COINS