The KNC Library News
July – September 2025
Tony Cook, Librarian (KNC LM-90)
The library’s inventory is now on our website for your reference and convenience to review from home. The website is kalamazoocoinclub.com.
Some great news, in March, we had a total of 14 books that were signed in between both meetings. As a reminder, books checked out are due back in the 3rd month after checking out. There are yellow reminder slips to use, if needed, to remind you of the date you checked out the book and when its due back.
More great news. Any current member who does a presentation can now request a book for their personal use.
A. KNC will pay the 1st $35 for the book requested.
B. Fill out the request slip and give it to the Librarian.
C. If the book is over $35, you will be contacted before the book is ordered to see if you want to pay the difference. Example – if you request a $50 book, and then you need to agree to pay the KNC the $15 difference before ordering.
New additions to the KNC Library since the last newsletter:
6a. Yeoman R.S., Handbook of U.S. Coins, The Official Blue Book 2026.
83rd Edition. Hardcover. Whitman Publishing LLC, Florence, AL 2025.
Added: Jun 2025.
3a. Bowers, David Q., A Guide to Continental Currency and Coins.
Currency and Coins of the American Revolution. Whitman Publishing LLC,
Pelham, AL. 2021. Added: Jun 2025.
LIBRARY BOOK REVIEW: “Strike it Rich with Pocket
Change” by Ken Potter & Dr Brian Allen, Krause Publications, 5th
Edition, 2021, 368 pages.
This is a remarkably interesting book with detailed pictures, descriptions, and arrows pointing out what to look for. It is like the Cherry Pickers Guide but only pertains to common pocket change from 1965 to 2020. This includes memorial cents (130 pages), nickels (45 pages), dimes (20 pages), quarters (42 pages), halves (14 pages), and dollars (29 pages). The dollars include Ike’s and all modern small dollars. Each picture also has a chart that shows different companies identification code to each coin. Example for the 1983 double die Lincoln cent is such as Breen’s (2309), Cherry Pickers Guide (FS-101(35), CONECA (DDO-001), Copper Coins (1983 IDO-001), Wexler (WDDO-001), and Potter (VCR#2/DDO#1).
Covered are double die, repunched mint marks, strike doubling, flat field strike doubling, ejection doubling, die trails (AKA die clash), and plating blisters. Each coin has a collectability rating, including a price for a circulated and uncirculated coin. This collectability of the error coin ratings is explained as extremely high collectable, medium collectable, low collectable, low
interest, extremely low interest, and non-collectable. Other topics covered are myths of various coins, buying, and selling variety coins. There is a lot of information for finding, identifying, preserving, buying, and selling. See if you can identify a “Jailhouse Penny” or a “Speard Bison.”
One topic covered is measuring rotated die errors. You have to photo shop the obverse and reverse. Once compared you can determine the degree of rotation. There is an estimated cost for rotated dies of 25 to 50 degrees, 50 to 90 degrees, and 90 to 180 degrees. This section tells how to do this in detail.
