The Confident Carson City Coin Collector
Three volumes, 2,500 pages
Hardbound
Color images
$299 plus $16 shipping

I wanted to give E-Sylum readers a few words about Rusty's new book. He has spent more than ten years working on it. For the past three and a half years he has relentlessly pursued its completion. As expected, 2020 proved to be a very challenging year. Rusty experienced many setbacks in his book project along the way. He never gave up, though.

The result is a massive three-volume hardback set, comprising 2,500 pages (1.5 million words). The book's title is The Confident Carson City Coin Collector. Volume 1 comprises 850 pages; Volume 2 runs slightly more than 1,010 pages; and Volume 3 is the short one, with its 640 pages. The set will debut during the first week in February 2021.

David Bowers wrote the Foreword, which appears in Volume 1. Color images fully illustrate the book. Many tables and appendices are spread throughout the volumes.

Rusty has poured everything he has learned about the Carson City Mint and its coins during the past three-plus decades into this new book (set). So much new information permeates the pages, it is difficult to know where to begin in listing examples. Rare coin auction catalogers will find fresh, new data, historical material, and anecdotes to use in their descriptions of Carson City coins. Collectors will find everything they need to thoroughly enjoy their pursuit of "CC" coins. History buffs will relish the experience of reading the Historical Setting sections in the volumes.

Marie adds:

"A Companion's Guide to the History of the Carson City Mint and an Appreciation of its Coins"is a subtitle that describes the author's intent for the three-volume set comprising The ConfidentCarson City Coin Collector. In these volumes Rusty Goe, a universally recognized authority onthese topics, shares with fervor, honesty, and user-friendliness what he wants collectors to knowabout Carson City coins and the mint from where they came.

Goe accomplishes his task by sketching the Carson City Mint's history from when it was only adream in the minds of frontier settlers, through its incipient days, through its coinmaking years,to the permanent cessation of its stamping machines. Volume 1 launches readers into acaptivating narrative that begins with the establishment of Nevada's coin factory and closes atthe end of 1874, the mint's fifth year of operations.

The 111 different date-denominations that represent the Nevada mint's medley of coins producedbetween 1870 and 1893 form the core of these volumes' subject matter. Goe allows the coinsfashioned in these 111 varied date-denominations to tell their own stories, which, when woventogether, produce one of the most epic legacies in all of U.S. numismatics.

Many basic notions abound about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that wereproducedthere. Many are accurate, while others are merely conjectural, or even worse, blatantly false. Theintention of this three-volume set is to lay as accurate a foundation as possible regarding alltopicsrelated to the Carson City Mint and its coins so that future studies in this field will benefit fromit. Additionally, Goe asks two questions: (1) What gives a collector confidence when pursuingCarsonCity coins? and (2) How does a knowledge-based approach to coin collecting add layers of valueto the experience? In these volumes' pages he capably answers these questions.

The 111 different date-denominations are presented differently in these volumes than is the usualcustom in numismatic reference books. For example, for the year 1870 the six denominationsminted are clustered together in denominational order. For each, two primary sections divide thecontent. First is the "Historical Setting" segment. Second is the "Coin Commentary" exposition.Throughout, many important avenues of study regarding history and coins are explored.

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