What do you do with your old Red Books?

[Lastufka Collection]

My girlfriend surprised me this morning with a new 2015 Red Book to update my old 2012 copy. Just curious what you guys do with old copies. Keep them as a price increase/decrease reference? Recycle? Sell on eBay? Donate to a coin club so they have extras on hand? Draw mustaches on every picture of Liberty?

 

If any of the newbies here want a copy with slightly out of date pricing, shoot me a PM and it's yours for the cost of shipping.

[Mr.Mcknowitall]

My girlfriend surprised me this morning with a new 2015 Red Book to update my old 2012 copy. Just curious what you guys do with old copies. Keep them as a price increase/decrease reference? Recycle? Sell on eBay? Donate to a coin club so they have extras on hand? Draw mustaches on every picture of Liberty?

 

If any of the newbies here want a copy with slightly out of date pricing, shoot me a PM and it's yours for the cost of shipping.

 

Have kept everyone of them, even the Blue Books. OCD....

[RWB]

"Draw mustaches on every picture of Liberty?"

 

Well, that's possibly one of the better uses....

[cpm9ball]

I give my old ones to kids just starting in the hobby. So what if the prices aren't accurate. The rest of the info is.

 

Chris

[johnny9434]

if someone wants the old copy then i give it to them. make a friend while your at it

[BillJones]

I keep them because I have a complete date set from the first to the latest edition. I don't collector the varieties, however.

[bsshog40]

I used to try to collect them myself. My oldest is 1958 and latest is 2007. Wtg Bill!! That was my goal also.

[PennyGuy]

Like BillJones, I too have a complete set of red books.

[ldhair]

I have several hundred Red Books from 2006 to 2008 that I would love to sell but the shipping is more than the value of the books.

I have given away a few hundred over the years.

[Mozin]

After a few years, I trash them.

[BillJones]

I used to try to collect them myself. My oldest is 1958 and latest is 2007. Wtg Bill!! That was my goal also.

 

I got lucky when I got my core set. There was a dealer who upgraded to complete set of Red Books in Mint State, and he offered his "circulated set" on a consignment basis at JJ Teaparty many years ago. I bought that set, and sold off the duplicates that I had.

 

The great think about is set is that there are a lot of Red Books in the 1970s that had poor bindings that fell apart. All of his books were intact. They are still intact, but I am very careful when I open them.

[asdfgh]

I keep a few. I have found several errors in mintage figures and go back and double check books from 5 and 10 years ago. Otherwise I give away some of them.

[Treashunt]

I have complete sets, of both the Red & Blue books and complete sets of signed Yeoman & Bressett copies.

 

Also, all special editions and varieties.

 

[PennyGuy]

But do you have a signed copy of A Guide Book of the Official Red Book of United States Coins?

 

 

 

Sorry I just couldn't resist.

 

For those that don't know, Treashunt wrote the book noted above on collecting Red Books.

[illini420]

I bring them to coin shows and give them out to the newbies.

 

Just about every show I attend, I run into folks completely new to the hobby that do not even know the basics, but seem eager to learn. I used to recommend they get the Red Book to get started as it has tons of good general info for the price and I'm sure some of them actually went out and bought a copy. Now, whenever I'm set up at a show, I always have copies ready to hand out to those I think could use one.

[michael]

I buy one every other year and I

 

put the old one out for free first come first served or give it away

to someone that could use it

[CoinZip]

I give away 5-10 red books a year.

 

When I'm set up at a show and a kid asks questions about coins, I answer the questions and ask them if they have a Red Book..... If they don't I give them mine and buy a new one.