100 Greatest American Currency Notes, 1st Edition

Description

You’ll travel back to colonial America before the revolution and to the early days of the defiant young nation. Relive the drama and tension of World War Two, through emergency notes made especially for the Hawaii, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Stories and facts behind what the PNG voted to be the “100 Greatest U.S. Coins.”

In this beautifully illustrated book, two of America?s best-known numismatists take the reader on a personal guided tour of our nation?s greatest currency notes. They?re all inside: the Lazy Deuce, the Tombstone Note, the Buffalo Bill, and more. You?ll see some familiar faces, such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and even Santa Claus… and meet some unique and colorful characters like the mad Emperor Norton. Battleships and locomotives, Army officers and Indians, politicians and polar bears?all these and more await you among the 100 Greatest American Currency Notes. By Q.David Bowers and David M. Sundman. Forward by Chester Krause and Clifford Mishler.

Description:

Publisher: Whitman
Author: Q. David Bowers & David Sundman
ISBN: 9780794820060
Pub Date: 12/1/2005
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 10.25×12.25
Pages: 134

Item #: 21127
Condition: New