Description
Whitman Publishing Company, Published 1964. Wraps, 80 pp.; 19 cm; staple bound; illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Brown and white pictorial paper covers; bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild to moderate shelf wear, some color loss along edges of the front cover and spine. Quarter-inch tear to the paper over the middle of the spine, continuing onto the first three leaves. Binding tight; pages unmarked. The Whitman Numismatic Journal was a monthly magazine published from 1964 to 1968 by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, the firm behind the standard "Red Book" (A Guide Book of United States Coins). Edited by R. S. Yeoman with Kenneth E. Bressett as managing editor, it carried articles by leading numismatists of the period. This issue, Volume 1, Number 11 (November 1964), is the Special Silver Dollar Issue. Contents: Light From Many Lamps; Your Man at the Centre of the World (Nick Parker); U.S. Coin Value Guide Line; New Issues, Catalog of Modern World Coins; The Canadian Coin Corner (J. E. Charlton); The United States Peace Dollar, part one (Walter Breen); The Pillar Dollar (James C. Shipley); Anthony De Francisci and the Peace Dollar (Don Taxay); A New Silver Dollar for France; The Liberty Seated Silver Dollar (Q. David Bowers); The Ballad of the Pound (Horace Bull); The Morgan Silver Dollars of 1878-1921 (Neil Shafer); The Dollar, A Coin from the Valley.