As robust as the world of modern American numismatic publishing is, it's good to take a look backward from time to time.

Numismatists love to study and collect the hobby's foundational books, auction catalogs, and periodicals of the 19th century. There's an entire (if that's the right word) devoted to buying, selling, and preserving these and similar objects of numismatic history.

10 years ago, bibliophile David Fanning-since 2010 one-half of the rare-book firm of Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers-wrote an engaging article for the March 2012 issue of The Numismatist (the journal of the American Numismatic Association).

In Fanning says that He observes that in the 1850s, when the hobby of coin collecting was first beginning to flourish in America, there was only a small number of books on coins, medals, and paper money. he notes. This changed as the hobby continued to grow, and by the end of the 1800s

Today, Fanning says,

His Numismatist article covers 10 publications of the 19th century that are considered numismatic classics today. Every collector who engages in conversations and explores the hobby to any depth will eventually hear these titles come up-books like Sylvester S. Crosby's The Early Coins of America (1875) and the Catalogue of John W. Haseltine's Type Table of U.S. Dollars, Half Dollars & Quarter Dollars (1881), and the periodical American Journal of Numismatics (started 1866) of the American Numismatic Society.

In a November 2015 interview with Coin World editor-at-large Steve Roach, Fanning opined on the future of numismatic literature collecting. he said.

To read David Fanning's thoughts on the visit the Kolbe & Fanning website.

To read the complete Dennis Tucker article, see:
Notes Published: Collecting the numismatic books of the 1800s(http://news.coinupdate.com/notes-published-collecting-the-numismatic-books-of-the-1800s/)

To read the complete David Fanning article, see:
Top 10 American Numismatic Books of the 19th Century(https://www.numislit.com/pdfs/Fanning_Feb2012Small.pdf)