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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Free EBook: Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins

Another free ebook for my blog reader: Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins. This is the 3rd edition of the book and it is publish in 2008. The book started with his children interest in collecting dime size silver coins. After a year the children gave up the hobby and Roger deWardt Lane took over the Dime Collection. This Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins was in preparation for thirty years. For the first ten years it was hand printed in manuscript form.

Photo: Straits Settlements coin.



The author, Roger deWardt Lane,nearly forty years ago, started his interest in Modern Dime Size Silver Coins of the World and put together a typeset of 18 mm silver coins from countries around the world. The dates started with the issues of Queen Victoria and ended with the last circulating silver coins of this size - 1970 Netherlands Antilles, minted in Holland. Several years later, He enlarge the series to include 17mm - 19mm, all dates, mint marks, assay initials and fineness arranged by date order within mints.

According to the author in his book. DIME (French, dixieme, Latin, decimus, tenth), the term for the tenth part of a dollar or ten-cent piece in the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, April 2, 1792. The first dime was coined in 1796. The denomination One Dime has a French root from dixieme to disme (used on the U.S. pattern of 1792) to the tenth part of a dollar.

The ebook is separated into three volume and you need to view it according to their country. No complete sets of book found for download. Some 101 country covered in this book including Malaya, Straits Settlements, British North Borneo, Sarawak, United States, Netherlands East Indies, Canada & Ceylon. The books covered in around 600 pages, complete with a history of the coin and the country its origin as a footnote. You can get the book by visiting the author website: Free EBook: Encyclopedia of Small Silver Coins. To the author, if you have any link for full download of the free book, please let me know.

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