Hardback letter size book, 382pages, profusely illustrated incolor. Foreword by WendellWolka. © 2010, reprinted 2020.

Seventy-two short stories andtheir historical background toldby a collection of large size UScurrency. The complex history ofthe beginnings of today's banknotes simply laid out.

TWENTY-ONE CHAPTERS

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Notable notes: a history of United States currency, by Peter Jones(http://www.artsandacademic.net/e-publications.php)

First impressions are always interesting and often memorable. I first met Peter at one of theAmerican Numismatic Association's Summer Seminars which are held annually in Colorado Springs,Colorado. He was a student in a course I was teaching that year, "An Introduction to Paper Money." It'sone of those survey courses that gives students a flavor of many different aspects of paper money butcannot get into a lot of detail on any one of them because of time limitations. This is usually perfect fornew collectors who are just trying to understand what might be out there that would be of interest to them.

Peter admitted that he was primarily a coin collector (I have long since forgiven him for that.)When you teach these classes you always worry that the students just might sit there for the week, neverutter a question or an opinion, and leave it to you to do all of the talking. Peter quickly relieved me of thatconcern. He was always curious WHY certain things happened the way they did. And they were alwaysGOOD questions--ones that kept the instructor's brain racing to come up with an answer sometimes. Iremember answering one of Peter's inquiries with an exasperated "Peter, they did it that way because theycould!"

This book makes me feel quite proud. I can now actually point to one of my former students andfellow numismatists as a definite convert from collecting those "little round metallic discs that go 'clunk'when dropped on their heads" to paper money! And it is clear that Peter enjoys the subject and has used hiscuriosity and intellect to weave together a wonderful set of stories, history lessons, and little known factsbased on seventy-two "notable notes" which he has selected.

This well illustrated book is an easy read which will leave you knowing more than before you readit whether you are brand new to paper money or a veteran "rag picker." And that, after all, is whatnumismatics is all about: sharing information with others so that we can collectively build the foundation ofknowledge for both present and future generations of collectors.

Well done, Peter, well done!