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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 51, December 18, 2022, Article 10

MOST USEFUL NUMISMATIC BOOKS OF 1959

Here'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

  29 Most Useful Numismatic Books 1959

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:
The One Hundred Greatest Items Of United States Numismatic Literature : A Survey of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (http://wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php/The_One_Hundred_Greatest_Items
_Of_United_States_Numismatic_Literature)
A Survey of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society Voting Results (http://wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php/Voting_Results:_
The_One_Hundred_Greatest_Works)

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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