Numismatics 101
- Andrews, Peter – To Slab or Not to Slab (essential reading for collectors pursuing PCGS collections)
- The Purple Penny – PCGS vs Australian Grading Standards
- Drakesterling – What is PCGS?
- Corbin, Wayne – The Proclamation Coins 1788-1817; original source: http://wcorbin.site.net.au
- Crellin, Andrew – What is a Proclamation Coin?; original source: JNAA 2005 Conference Papers, Vol. 17 Article 8. http://www.numismatics.org.au/naa-journals/2006/
- Robinson, Leslie – Numismatic photography; video 1 & video 2. Software used is Paint.net. Screen capture with Screenhunter 7
- PCGS – Doctored Coins. Excerpt taken from The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection
- PCGS – Detecting Sophisticated Surface Alteration Techniques -from The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection
- NGC – Counterfeit Detection
- Fun times Guide Site – Variety Coins vs Error Coins
- PCGS “No Grade” Explanations – Part 1 to Part VI
- Walter, Eigner – Collecting Old Australian Coins
- Eigner, Walter – Half Sovereigns of the Sydney Mint (1853 – 1869)
- ANDA – Collecting the Australian Gold Sovereign
More Numismatics
- Lever, Fred – 1920 complete story
- Lever, Fred – 1919 Penny
- Holland, Paul – Australian Pre-Decimal Bronze Coinage Paul Holland
- Holland, Paul – Die Pairings, Curved Based Letters and Dots: Why are George V Pennies so Complex? Vol. 28, JNAA.
- Holland, Paul – The Perth Mint penny “mules” of 1955-1956
- Holland, Paul – The 1933/32 Overdate Penny
- Holland, Paul – Perth Mint Proof Coins – 1955 to 1963
- Robinson, Leslie – 1882 Melbourne, The Sixth Head Half Sovereign
- Sharples, John – Penny Reverse Master Dies of George V
- Sharples, John – Australian Coins 1919 to 1924
- Sharples, John – The 1930 Penny
- Sharples, John – Perth Mint Proof Record Coins – 1940-1954
- Sharples, John – A Catalogue of the Trade Tokens of Victoria – 1848 to 1862
- Bloom, Walter – The Proof/Specimen 1930 Penny
- Crellin, Andrew – The 1856 Type 2 Reverse Half Sovereign
- Crellin, Andrew – The 1858 RR Error Half Sovereign
- Briggs, David – 1934-35 Melbourne Centenary Florin, from Florins 2nd Ed (warning: large file).
- Fun Time Guide Site – US Error Coins List by Date and Denomination
- http://news.coinupdate.com/category/counterfeiting/
Economics & Monetary Affairs
- Fergusson, Adam; Weimar Hyperinflation – “When-Money-Dies”
- Armstrong, Martin – The Panic of 1893
- Armstrong, Martin – The Panic of 1873
- Armstrong, Martin – EMU, Building the Foundation for the Next Great European Disaster (1997)
- Armstrong, Martin – The Long Depression – the First Great Depression
- Fendel & Maurer – Does European History Repeat Itself? Lessons from the Latin Monetary Union
- Velde, Francois – How the United States Adopted the Gold Standard
- Tildman, Freeman – A World in Debt
- Waterman, A.M.C – Economic Fluctuations in Australia; 1948 to 1964
- Reinhart, C & Rogoff, K: The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt – original source: https://tinyurl.com/Domestic-Debt
- Armstrong, Martin – First Sovereign Debt Default in the 4th Century BC
- Armstrong, Martin – List of Modern Sovereign Debt Defaults or Debt Restructuring
- Armstrong, Martin – Monetary History of Imperial Rome
- USGS – metal prices in the US through to 2010
- LeFevre, Edwin – Reminiscence of a Stock Operator (a must read analysis for those wishing to understand market psychology)
- Willis, Henry – A History of the Latin Monetary Union; A study of International monetary Action
- Enaudi, Luca – Chapter 5: Enthusiasm and Resistance to Union in Britain and Germany; Money and Politics – European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873)
History
- History of Civilizations in Central Asia – 700 B.C to 250 A.D
- The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville – source: https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.111146/page/n5/mode/2up
- Marx, Karl – The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
- Marx, Karl – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonoparte
- Golitsyn – The Perestroika Deception (a former KGB’s analysis of Perestroika as a Leninist end game for the West)
- Golitsyn – New Lies for Old; the Communist Strategy of Deception and Misinformation
- Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (large pdf file)
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