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PAUL HENCHY RESEARCH LIBRARY - Hard Times, Hard Money & You
Moutain View, CA: Bern's Print Shop, 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have toning to the edges, especially the spine joints. There is a previous owner's inked name on the top edge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. This book is to help beginning Numismatists understand the hobby / investment of coin collecting. A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin numismatis, genitive of numisma). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Although use of the term numismatics was first recorded in English in 1829, people had been collecting and studying coins long before this, all over the world. The first group chiefly derives pleasure from the simple ownership of monetary devices and studying these coins as private amateur scholars. In the classical field amateur collector studies have achieved quite remarkable progress in the field. Examples are Walter Breen, a well-known example of a noted numismatist who was not an avid collector, and King Farouk I of Egypt was an avid collector who had very little interest in numismatics. Harry Bass by comparison was a noted collector who was also a numismatist. "rom Wikipedia). Very Good .
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3060] Booknumber: 43030
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USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3060] Booknumber: 43030
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