Dennis Tucker revealed how Dave Bowers writes so many books in last week's E-Sylum. Here is my list of five books I'd like to ownand read by Dave.

1. Numismatic Almanac. He has already started this but perhaps other book projects proved a higher priority. Please finish this Dave, as awriter myself I would use it incessantly.

2. Future Coins. With his knowledge of coins, technology and economic factors of the past, he would be highly qualified to project whatcoins we will be using, say, ten, fifty, a hundred years from now.

3. Chocking Off China's Counterfeits. A list of coins and other numismatic items which are known to have been made in China andsuggestions how to stop this damaging activity which could permanently curtail collecting..

4. Restructuring the ANA. As a former officer, president, and always in contact with our national organization, he has rare insight intothe inner workings of the American Numismatic Association. If only he could prepare a plan how it should be organized to prevent the problems it hasexperienced in the past, turn it into the more dynamic organization it should be.

5. Numismatic Immortality. Coins and medals last forever. We have 2,000-year old coins, 500-year old medals and counting. What numismaticitems do we have or can create today which will reveal to mankind, say, five hundred or a thousand years from now what kind of people we were, ourinterests and our activities? Shouldn't we see that these are in selected archival institutions around the globe for a more likely survival? Or,if man has to leave this planet and travel to another what numismatic items should be taken to the new planet and preserved to record our earthlyexistence? Same thing holds true for our numismatic literature. What numismatic books should be preserved forever?

Dick adds:

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
Q. DAVID BOWERS AND NUMISMATIC WRITING (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v18n02a17.html)