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17 May 2021

Review of "An Overview of Numismatics" by Preston Thomas AKA DaNumismasta

| Jackson

So, I met a fellow YN member, DaNumismasta, many of you may already know him. Him and I, I hope and hope he agrees too, have made a good connection. I plan on buying and trading with him soon. (stubborn parents) I met him and started talking and to my surprise he has his own book "An Overview of Numismatics" and also a bi-monthly magazine "Numismatic Marvels" both are amazing but for today I'm only reviewing his book, someday I'll get to his magazine. "An Overview of Numismatics" is available FREE on his website www.Numismastery.weebly.com and you can try contact him from his ANA account DaNumismasta and he can hopefully email it to you. He goes over a ton of information for Numismatics and beginner coin collectors and I will not get to it all today. It's not that long, it took me three or four days to read, but don't expect it to be a one month read unless you one chapter every two days. Okay, let's get into it, he starts like any book, how he began collecting. In the first several chapters he goes over how to begin, where to begin, what to do, what supplies you need, the kinds of collecting, etc. Very basic collecting ideas, but very important and confusing to a new collector especially a young collector. He goes into some detail of types of coins, how they came to be, who made them, how they are made, and what they mean. He goes into things like civil war tokens, hobo nickels, Henning nickels, love tokens and even some currency. He explains minting processes, varieties and errors that come from the mint and how to self grade and how TPH grades coins. Ohh and I almost forgot this, what gives a coin value, very important. He also runs through a few oddball coins that the US Mint has come out with over the years. And last but not least Medieval coins. Overall he does an amazing job explaining and giving information in an easy and understandable way. I really think it is an amazing book! Thank You for reading!
Note: Some edits may be made to this book over time as he is not 100% complete with it, he hopes to publish someday but cannot say exactly when.DaNumismasta also has not asked me to write this, I have written under my own will but do have his consent to publish this.

Comments

Mal_ANA_YN

Level 5

Really cool support for YN's.

It's Mokie

Level 6

Excellent page, I have some idea for a cross-promotion with the PAN Clarion, will message SEPCOR>

Jackson

Level 3

Sounds good! If you find anything you can message me and I'll get to Preston (DaNumismasta) or you can contact him directly on ANA.

Kepi

Level 6

Nice blog! I went to the web-site and took a look around. The book is really professional looking. I'm impressed! Keep up the good work! ; )

Jackson

Level 3

Thank You! All the credit goes to Preston though (AKA DaNumismasta) who wrote the book, I'm just the good friend who loved the book enough to share it :)

Mike

Level 7

Keep up the good work!

Jackson

Level 3

Thank You!

slybluenote

Level 5

Hi Preston, I have read several of your articles including The Loupe, and now Numismatic Marvels and all have been great reading. I will continue reading and thank you for delivering the articles to my inbox. Thanks for posting.

Jackson

Level 3

Preston is the one who wrote the book, I'm jackson who wrote the blog, but Preston does have some good articles and a wonderful book!

coinfodder

Level 5

A cool book review. I am taking full editing privilege's for the next issue of his magazine. Formatting photos is more time consuming than it looks. Well, if your parents are in the way, at least summer is up ahead (unless your school district ends in June, mine ends a week from when I write this (wednesday)). And about blog commenting- it is odd on everybody. My blogs used to get 12 or 13 comments. Now they get 5 or 6.

Jackson

Level 3

Thank You! I will write a review about his magazine maybe today or tomorrow. My district ends a June 10th, we started way late this year, September 8th.

Longstrider

Level 6

Why isn't anybody commenting on this blog? Oh well. I checked out the book and it is pretty good. Very well done. A worth while endeavor. We should all be encouraging this type of action. Great work Preston. I wish you a publisher. Thanks.🐍

Golfer

Level 5

Maybe a first release autograpged copy? Sounds like a nice book. Very impressive to take on a project like this.

Jackson

Level 3

That's a great idea! I will message Preston about that and see what he thinks.

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