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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE MOST USEFUL NUMISMATIC BOOKS OF 1959Here's another item from Dan Hamelberg - a 1959 list of the "Twenty-Nine Most Useful Numismatic Books" selected by R.S. Yeoman and distributed by Glenn B. Smedley. Neat item - thanks! -Editor 
Dan adds: "Interesting to compare this 1959 list to the one we compiled a few years ago." In an effort led by Len Augsburger in 2009, NBS compiled and published a list of The One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature: A Survey of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society. Yeoman was being modest - his Guide Book of United States Coins is 24th on his list - it came in 4th on the NBS list of 100. And many of the 100 titles had yet to be written in 1959, including the #1 item, Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins. Exercise left for the reader: how many of 1959's top 29 are among the 2009 top 100? Of course, the criteria for the two lists are different - Yeoman included world numismatics while NBS focused on just U.S., and the NBS nominations included auction catalogs and periodicals and more in addition to books. -Editor
To read the complete NBS list and voting results, see:
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