The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 47, November 5, 2005, Article 28

NUMISMATIC LITERATURE ON GOOGLE PRINT

Ed Snible writes: "Google Print has scanned and indexed
a large number of numismatic titles. Some samples: Holt,
“Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant
Medallions”; Mattingly, “From Coins To History”;  Vagi,
“Coinage and History of the Roman Empire”; Howe, “Ancient
Coins at the Elvehjem Museum of Art”; Crawford, “Roman
Republican Coinage”; Halperin, “How To Grade U.S. Coins”;
Reiter, “The New York Times Guide to Coin Collecting”.

A large number of recent Heritage auction catalogs are
available. It's good to see Google scanning auction
catalogs, and I look forward the eventual appearance of
older auction catalogs.

Books published after 1922 can be searched but Google
only allows a few pages or paragraphs can be read. Old
public-domain books can be read completely. Three such
fully readable books:

"Greek Coins and Their Parent Cities” / Ward and Hill
Full Story

George Greenlief Evans, “Illustrated History of the
United States Mint” (1887) Full Story

“The Confessions of a Collector” / William Carew Hazlitt Full Story

Hazlitt's "Confessions of a Collector" is a gem that
I wouldn't have discovered without Google Print. It is
an 1897 account of book and coin collecting in England,
full of details of dealers, coins, and purchase prices.

I haven't found a way to jump to a particular book page.
This is a problem for reading Hazlitt's book -- the
numismatic stuff doesn't start until page 235! Frenzied
attempts to click "Next" 234 times are thwarted by a false
message suggesting that a virus is clicking pages for you!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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