The 2008 ANS Limited Edition will probably be very rarely seen in the marketplace, since it was distributed to a small number of people for their personal collections. It was never offered for sale; each recipient got one (and only one) copy, as a memento of a historic occasion (the sesquicentennial of the American Numismatic Society). It might be a generation or two before any copies appear publicly for sale or auction."

A copy of this edition was given to each member who attended the American Numismatic Society's banquet in 2008. My wife, who is neither a member nor a collector, but a good sport nevertheless, came with me to the banquet and also received one. We donated her copy to NBS to be auctioned as a fund raiser. With Brad Karoleff taking (extracting?) the bids, it brought a humongous price. So there has been at least one appearance on the secondary market but don't take Brad's price realized as a market indicator.

You had to have been there. I'm told that Brad has a night job as a stand-up comic. He had John Adams diving for cover under the table during the club benefit auction. I did go up to thank the guy who bought it (for something north of $1K). He was very good natured – think he actually enjoyed parting with that much cash to benefit NBS.

That's one of my Red Books that I treasure. The other is the 2004 regular edition short-snorter signed by everyone in attendance at the 2003 NBS meeting in Baltimore, including yourself of course, and all the other good guys. I got that one for ~$100 if memory serves. Well worth it.

I sold a copy in my first auction sale, held in October 2008 (lot 304).

304. Yeoman, R.S. A Guide Book of United States Coins. 61st edition (2008). Kenneth Bressett, ed. Atlanta: Whitman, 2007. 8vo., full leather, gilt; gilt page edges; silk bookmark. Limitation leaf; 416 pages. American Numismatic Society 150th anniversary celebration bookplate on pastedown. Fine.

One of 250 copies prepared with a special bookplate in honor of the ANS's sesquicentennial, of which this is copy 158 (and copy 643 of the 3000 printed of the 2008 limited edition Red Book).