Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins

Third Edition – an E-book by Roger deWardt Lane, Hollywood, Florida

“The day the music industry died - There is no money in recorded music any more, that’s why bands are now giving it away” for download. -  New York Times 1.

Now, someone steps up to the plate for numismatic publishing, and posts their e-book free on the internet for download and viewing, as a gift to numismatists around the world.

The latest incarnation of Brother Can You Spare A Dime?  - Modern Dime Size Silver Coins of the World with Footnotes to History has been published on the Internet by the author.  Viewers can download the over 100 countries Free in Adobe Acrobat or bookmark the Table of Contents page – www.dewardt.net/Encyclopedia.html.

This work a forty year project to study these miniature engravings of Art and History was first published in 1997 with only one copy, presented to the American Numismatic Society library in New York.  Five years later a CD-rom was produced and the next year the revised Second Edition was issued.  Copies were presented to The American Numismatic Association, Numismatic International and the author won the Numismatic Literary Guild 2003 Best Software Award.

Since posting this 600 page e-book on his web site – www.dewardt.net he has received comments and minor suggestions from India, (where three photos were noted as being shown upside down, to historical corrections for the Canadian Footnotes, to typos and suggested font accents, for the Nicaragua pages.  Viewers from many other countries have been tracked; Italy, France, Jordan, United Kingdom, Brazil, Poland, Netherlands, Argentina Republic, Chile, Czech Republic, Croatia, Japan, Portugal and Slovak Republic, Taiwan-Province of China.  The site has been up only a week.

Please tell other collectors to take a few minutes to view pages of interest and see some of the over 1000 coin images enlarged, plus another thousand historical clip art drawings and hundreds of Footnotes: detailing biographies of engravers and designers and mint city descriptions, all contemporaneous with the dates on the coin series.

Roger deWardt Lane

Press Release

October 24, 2007

1. New York Times - October 7, 2007 - entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2602597.ece

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