QUERY: THE WHITMAN BLACK BOOK SERIES

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The E-Sylum: Volume 14, Number 35, August 21, 2011, Article 4

QUERY: THE WHITMAN BLACK BOOK SERIES

Glen McClelland writes:

I am a collector of the Whitman Black Book series of books published in the early 1960s. The problem is I'm not sure how many titles were published. I have contacted Whitman Publishing to see if they had a list, but they said that their records no longer went that far back.

I recently saw that Joel Orosz has a new column in Coin World dedicated to books on numismatics so I contacted him and asked if he knew how many different titles there were. He wrote back saying he had wondered the same thing himself. He also suggested that I contact you to see about publishing a list in The E-Sylum. Attached is a list of the titles I have. Do any of your readers know of other titles?

Below is Glen's list. I could swear this was a topic covered once before, but I was unable to locate it in our archives. -Editor

Alaska's Coinage Through the Years By Maurice M. Gould and Kenneth Bressett

The Colonial Coinage of The U.S. Virgin Islands By Lincoln W. Higgie

Confederate States Paper Money By Arlie R. Slabaugh

Foreign Coins Struck at the United States Mints By Charles G. Altz and E.H. Barton

A Guide Book Of United States Fractional Currency By Matt Rothert

Hawaiian Coins, Tokens and Paper Money By Maurice M. Gould and Kenneth Bressett

Moneys of the Bible By R.S. Yeoman

The Money of Puerto Rico By Maurice M. Gould and Lincoln W. Higgie

Money Tells the Story By Rear Admiral O.H. Dodson

Patriotic Civil War Tokens By George and Melvin Fuld

The Silver Dollars of Africa By John S. Davenport

United States Territorial Coinage for the Philippine Islands By Neil Shafer

The number "13" sticks in my head regarding these Whitman Black Books. There are twelve listed above. As a collector of Civil War Tokens I know there are titles for both Patriotics and Store cards. So below I've added that to the list, taking the title (and image above) from a copy in my library. Does this complete the list? -Editor

A Guide to Civil War Store Card Tokens By George and Melvin Fuld

Wayne Homren, Editor

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