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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 51, December 23, 2018, Article 6

BOOK REVIEW: MEGA RED 4TH EDITION

Mike Thorne published a nice review of the 4th edition "Mega Red" in Numismatic News December 12, 2018. here's a short excerpt - be sure to read the complete article online. -Editor

MEGA RED 4th edition book cover To say that the book I’m going to review in this column is gargantuan is an understatement. According to my postal scales, it rings in at a whopping 6 pounds 10.5 ounces. That would be a good weight for a newborn infant rather than a paperback book. If I don’t want to do my weights at the gym, I can always work out with Mega Red.

Seriously, this is the 4th edition of a giant of a book, A Guide Book of United States Coins Mega Red. As you can tell from the title, it’s related to the venerable A Guide Book of United States Coins, aka the Red Book. In fact, you can think of it as the Red Book on steroids.

To give you a picture of the difference in dime coverage between Mega Red and the Red Book, I measured and counted the pages. In the 2018 Red Book, dimes are treated on 16, 5.25- x 7.75-inch pages. In Mega Red, dimes are covered on 294, 6.5- x 10-inch pages. In other words, when you buy the latest Mega Red, it includes a complete book on U.S. dimes!

I hasten to add that of the Mega Red’s 25 appendices, 15 are about dimes in one way or another. These are not included in the page count I just gave you.

To read the complete article, see:
Mega Red 4th Edition a must-have (https://www.numismaticnews.net/article/mega-red-4th-edition-a-must-have)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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