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PUBLICATIONS OF THE COIN AND CURRENCY INSTITUTE
Last week I asked about the books published by the Coin & Currency Institute. Several readers chimed in with various pieces of the puzzle. Thanks, everyone!
-Editor
One E-Sylum reader writes:
As you probably know, the most familiar titles bearing C&C's imprint are 'Paper Money of the United States', and 'Gold Coins of the World', both of which have had many editions over the years. David Gladfelter writes:
Pete Smith writes: The Coin and Currency Institute has a website where they offer eight books for sale. That is too easy to justify as the answer to an E-Sylum quiz answer.
The answer I had in mind was inspired by the list of "Other books published by the Coin & Currency Institute" in the 15th edition of Friedberg's "Paper Money of the United States" (the latest edition in my library). Adding that title to the list, the eight books are:
But this list of eight does not match the eight on the web site (see
www.coin-currency.com/book.html
) Also listed are:
The first two were published by the Coin & Currency Institute. The web site doesn't say who published the last two. -Editor American Numismatic Society Librarian Elizabeth Hahn writes: I was reading through The E-Sylum and was intrigued by your quiz asking for the names of at least 8 numismatic books published by the Coin & Currency Institute, Inc. As a short promotion for the ANS Library, I'd like to say that the answer can be found through a quick search of the new library catalog, Donum! We are still doing some technical maintenance to the new catalog, and some design changes will be appearing in the next 2-4 weeks, but otherwise I would encourage readers to take advantage of this ANS Library resource and this quiz is a great way to see the improved searching (and sorting) capabilities of the new catalog. Here's the list that I came up with after a 2 minute search for "coin and currency institute": Publisher: Coin and Currency Institute, Inc.
How did I do? Or rather, how did the catalog do?
The catalog did very well, listing eleven works published by C&CI. Two titles we haven't listed so far are:
This is a relatively small number of titles for such a long history of publishing, but several of these are landmarks in the hobby. The Friedberg Paper Money book was the classic reference for decades and is still popular. The So-Called Dollars book was probably a commercial flop at first, with many unsold copies. Yet over the years it became the standard reference in that field, with the price of the book rising greatly once out of print. America's Foreign Coins is one of my favorite books, and it was one of the first on my shelf of colonial coin references. My copy was inscribed to Lee Hewitt by coauthor Oscar Schilke. This book was probably no blockbuster either, but again, very important to the hobby. Kudos to C&CI for making so many great references available. -Editor
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
THE LIBRARY OF COINS ALBUMS AND THE COIN AND CURRENCY INSTITUTE
(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n25a18.html)
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I couldn't resist answering the query you posed. The Coin and Currency Institute was the publishing arm of Capital Coin Co., the department store coin firm founded by Robert Friedberg, and run for many years after Robert's death by his brother Jack and widow Goldie. I believe the firm is currently owned by Robert's sons Arthur and Ira, and managed by Arthur.
