No comments about Caesarea Maritima: The Coins And the Hellenistic, Roman And Byzantine Economy of Palestine (Asor Archaeological Reports) (Asor Archaeological Reports) ... to Caesarea Maritima Excavation Reports).

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2 comments about Coin World Comprehensive Catalog & Encyclopedia of United States Coins: Including Pre-Federal Coinage, Pioneer Gold and Patterns.

1. Very good numismatic reference book, one of the most extensive grade details and price guide. a must have.



2. This book has many similarities to the Red Book, but it goes into considerably more detail, alerting the reader to the rarity of many coins in high grades and adding information on rare, unusual coins such as the unique Jefferson nickel of the wartime issues struck with its mintmark in the original location. Such details make this book far superior to the Red Book, lacking only the yearly update of prices to truly dominate the field. It also contains a section on patterns, entirely lacking in the Red Book. Comprehensiveness and good formatting earn this book its high rating, and easily justify it as a general reference despite it's out of date status.

5 comments about Money: * (Eyewitness Books).

1. My grandson requested this book and another DK Eyewitness book, DOGS, for his 9th birthday. He LOVES them both!



2. I loved this book and was facinated with the subject of money and currency in the world. I have students who love Eyewitness Books and they often ask me to buy more. I think this a great edition to our classroom library and the students will be just as facinated as I was with money!



3. Alexa is 8 years old and is interested in checking things out. She has the book "Money" that describes old money. She saw this and said, "Grandpa, I need that book to check out new money". She reads and re-reads the book all the time.



4. "The earliest reports of payments with cowrie shells were from China about 3,500 years ago."
   
   The first thing I noticed on the first page was the heart-shaped English brass halfpenny token from 1665. I've seen a lot of coins, but had no idea that they could be in so many shapes. From the Ancient Chinese bronze hoe-shaped coin of the 6th century to the square Indian gold mohur of the 17th century, there is a coin for every taste and collection.
   
   There is information on funny money, the first coins, paper money, how coins are made, how banknotes are made, forgery and fakes, money and trade, money in war, power, shared currencies, checks and plastic and coin collections. The countries features include ancient cultures, France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and African countries.
   
   "The name for a piggy bank comes from pygg, a type of clay used in Middle Ages to make pots for money and other thing. The idea to make banks in the shape of pigs probably came from the similarity of the words."
   
   If we could still pay with shells, many of us would probably spend a lot more time at the beach. Some of the most fascinating "money" in this book includes red feathers glued together and tied onto vegetable-fiber coils. Writing a check on a cow? That has to
   be the strangest thing I've heard about money.
   
   This book has the most bizarre tales about money and also has a special section on coin collecting, how to store them and why you should note store them in a plastic envelope.
   
   Other features:
   
   Timeline of Banking
   Glossary with Pictures
   
   It is truly amazing how humans went from stone money to transferring money directly into our checking accounts. This book reminded me of visiting a place in Africa where a man told me if I could lift a gold bar with one hand I could have the gold. I did try. There is a picture of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York where one-third of all the monetary gold in the world is found in special cages.
   
   "When one country sells gold to another, it is moved between the cages by workers wearing shoe covers to protect their feet from dropped bricks."
   
   The most fun you will ever have reading about money.
   
   ~The Rebecca Review



5. This book is the best book for young children to actually visually see what money does and what it looks like in different countries. Very good educational book.

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1 comments about Medallic Portraits of Washington.

1. This book is a fantastic resource for collectors of Washington medals, exonumia, coins and Washington portrait ephemera which sets a standard for coin and medals books of any kind. It attempts to catalogue all of the known Washington medallic portrayals of the Father of our Country and, frankly, does it well. While there are such things as pillboxes, paperweights, porcelain portraits and even fantasy coins included, these are relegated to the Odds & Ends chapter at the end of the book while the majority of listings are of coins, tokens and medals struck either for events directly related to the life and times of George Washington, or which have been struck to honor his memory. The distinction is, for instance, Indian Peace Medals which were bestowed upon American Indian tribal notables that may or may not have a portrait of the Great White Father on them but may be considered of his time even if issued in 1843. On the other hand the token issued in 1892 by the League of American Wheelmen which uses a portrait of Washington for the obverse device may be considered a tribute in honor of his memory. Granted, the distinction is pretty thin, suffice it to say that this book attempts to catalogue everything remotely coin-like that pertains to, arguably, the greatest figure in American history.
   The roots of this catalogue date back to 1885 when one William S. Baker published the first book of this title wherein he identified and numbered his vast collection of Washington medallic portraits. It is a testament of the strength of his cataloguing abilities that these so-called Baker numbers are still in use today. Over the years there were remarkably few attempts to improve upon Baker's work which made for an ideal situation for the present editors Russell Rulau and George Feld to gather all of the pre-existing material into a single book and then expand upon it with all of the material they could find issued since. These editors not only used the old Baker assigned numbers but also created new 'Baker' numbers to later issues and also have cross referenced to other reference numbers (HK, KM, Collins, et al). Needless to say, this was a Herculean undertaking and the amount of information the editors managed to fit into this book in approx. 316 pps. is nothing less than amazing.
   If you decide to dip into Washingtonia I predict that two things will occur: First that there is so much really great stuff out there for such a low cost that you may become addicted to collecting this material and second that you will chuckle with delight when you find that it is all but impossible to find some new medal or coin that has been left out of this reference. The editors also helpfully included rarity information, previous auction results where known, and supplied a pricing guide for the material in different conditions. Obviously, with a 1995 publication date much has changed to date but the pricing material is still much appreciated and helps one to get a mental picture of what he is likely to want to pay or sell for. As a side note whilst attending the Baltimore Whitman coin expo in June, 2008 I saw a copy of this book trade hands for twice what it costs right here on Amazon as I type this review (hint: in the 20's).

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