Your coin book shelves

[Pellinore]

Just saw this other thread, with a picture of a youthful coin enthusiast with a room full of books in the background.

How does your coin book shelf look like? This is mine (some books I forgot to put back in for the picture). I keep buying. And some of these books I love just as much as some of the best coins themselves.

-- Paul

[Figleaf]

Yeoman, Zadoks Josephus Jitta, Seaby, Zonnebloem zilver...

Feeling younger now

But what's that light blue book De Nederlandse Munten? A new edition of Enno van Gelder's most popular opus?

I once fed data on 200 books in my library in this site. I needed more entries and they wanted me to pay, so I stopped. I chucked out some useless books since and got many more new ones, so it's no longer up to date.

Peter

[Pellinore]

Not Yeoman's Modern Coins, that's from the past. The book that looks like it is Le Bestiaire des Monnaies, it was left to me by my father-in-law.
Mrs Zadoks-Josephus Jitta I met as a boy in 1972? when I was starting to collect Roman coins and wondering if archeology or history was going to be my study (I chose otherwise). Nederlandse munten is a recent reprint of Van Gelder, quite right. By the way, a street has been named after him not far from where I live.

And are you willing to make a picture of your actual coin book shelf for this thread?
-- Paul

[malj1]

I did add mine here some years ago but no idea where that posting is now. Here is a collage of the pictures I used before.

These days I have many things to hand on my PC with around 300 books in PDF form and backed up on DVD.

...not very good pictures I might have to start again.

[Pellinore]

Not bad, not bad at all Malj1 sir, some well-filled shelves they are!
-- Paul

[gerard974]

hello
Now i understand why you know many many things
Best regards  Gerard

[malj1]

I am an avid reader  as well as avid collector of tokens. 

Here is another bookcase filled to over-capacity. 

[Pellinore]

Great!

[Figleaf]

Not happy with the pic, but it will have to do. I try to keep the books on coins to one IKEA "Billy" case, so each time I get a new book I should chuck out some old one(s). I cheat by putting some books on top of other books and by pretending one volume of KM is always in use. I have a large collection of electronic books as well. The photo is cut off at the feet (which is just more of the same), but shows some of the history books I use for coins also.

Peter

[Pellinore]

I always love pics like that, just like the photos of Nobel Prize winners and famous writers in front of their most beloved chest of books. To the right I can see several of the history books I often handled when I worked in a large 2nd hand bookshop (De Slegte). But special books about coins were rarely offered.
Which books do you look at most?
-- Paul

[Figleaf]

Which books do you look at most?

Don't have stats on that. A recent acquisition, Encyclopédie des symboles is getting even more attention than I thought it would. I like Merk-würdiges von A-Z, a bizarre alphabetic list of the unusual. United States History, a US school book, often comes in handy. Ships is a quick reference for historical ship types. I keep re-visiting John Le Carré, Bernard Cornwell and Anthony Price novels. From time to time, I use Churchill's memoirs, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Pepys' diary, Thomas Macaulay (History of England) and others to get into a Zeitgeist. I don't consult Kipling as often as I would expect myself. Still, he's a favourite. I guess he outshone his contemporaries and now lives mainly in the brain.

For coins, I use the paper books on Spanish and French medieval coins most, closely followed by a dictionary of coin names and a book on latin texts. The most used electronic books are KM, followed at a distance by Dannenberg and Forrer.

You are right about the "De Slegte" type of history books. They are an inheritance I seem unable to part with, though I have never opened them. They are paperweights. Like the Elsevier encyclopaedia (not in the picture) my parents bought when I went to university. I keep hoping I can find a good use for them.

Peter